Maintenance Planner

Reports to: Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Supervisor

Hours: Scheduled Monday-Friday, 6a-2p/ 7a-3p

Summary:

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing, coordinating, and optimizing maintenance activities to ensure equipment reliability, minimizing downtime, and supporting safe, efficient plant operations. This role bridges the gap between maintenance execution and production needs by creating detailed work plans, scheduling resources, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure Safe Practices are used by Maintenance employees and promote a safe work environment.
• Review notifications daily, assigning planner responsible. Forward non-planned jobs to Maintenance Scheduler for scheduling.
• Manage and update all jobs from your Worklist.
• Plan maintenance work for upcoming outages.
• Order parts/material when needed. Adding to BOM’s daily.
• Organize maintenance planning meetings with production departments.
• Coordinate repair prioritization with operations, engineering, and maintenance teams.
• Secure contractors to complete onsite work when needed. Obtaining quotes, issuing reqs., and completing Goods Receipts.
• Contractor check-ins when planned jobs are being executed by contractors.
• Create Standard Job Plans to refer back to quickly.
• Willing to work OT, weekends and off shift schedule as needed to support the operations.
• Properly plan Maintenance jobs by providing job plan requirements below:
  • Purpose/Scope of the work order.
  • Job step sequence (operations).
  • Physical verification of parts/material on hand, signed out and kitted/palletized.
  • Safety related issues. (LOTO, special PPE requirements, special hazards, required permits, etc.)
  • Manpower needed. Total job duration.
  • Procedures needed.
  • Equipment drawings.
  • Specifications and tolerances (Torque requirements, wear limits)
  • Special tools and Equipment (Cranes, Lifts, Special hand tools)
  • Testing requirements.

Required Skills:

• Proficient with a PC and Microsoft suite (Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, etc.)
• Ability to efficiently navigate the CMMS (SAP) and continue to assist with deploying full utilization of the system.
• Knowledge of maintenance activities and tasks in order to affectively and efficiently compose detailed job plans.
• Ability to think creatively and problem solve to ensure optimal equipment production and reduce downtime.
• Clear and concise written & verbal communication skills, ability to work and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to make critical decisions in a fast paced, production-oriented work environment. Ability to work well under pressure is vital to the success of this role.
• Ability to keep a cool head and rationalize situations to ensure good conflict resolution.  
• Capable of completing work in a timely manner.
• Promotes positive team environment.

Desired experience:

• 3–5 years in maintenance planning, reliability engineering, or industrial maintenance.
• Proficiency with SAP PM
• Strong knowledge of plant equipment and process. Rotary kilns, Conveyors, Screens, mixers, presses, etc. 
• Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt

Health, Safety, & Work Environment:

• Perform all work in accordance with RHI Magnesita’s Health and Safety policies.
• Adhere to all EHS and IMS policies and job expectations as specified in the Job Descriptions of the Persons Responsible for IMS, RHI Magnesita NAM Regional Safety Rules, Roles, Responsibilities, and Authorities, and Safety Rules and Responsibilities documents.

What we bring to the table:

• $1.50 Shift Premium & $1.60 Weekend Premium
• $200 voucher for required steel toe boots with met guard (& prescription safety glasses if requested)
• Company-issued uniforms are provided and professionally laundered at no cost to employees.
• Amazing benefits that start within 30 days of hire.
• Up to 6% company match on 401k
• 3 weeks PTO (increases to 4 weeks on 4th anniversary)
• Competitively priced benefits

About RHI Magnesita:

RHI Magnesita is the leading global supplier of high-grade refractory products, systems and solutions which are critical for high-temperature processes in a wide range of industries. Serving customers around the world, RHI Magnesita has more than 20,000 employees in 65 main production sites (including raw material sites), 12 recycling facilities and more than 70 sales offices.

RHI Magnesita’s team in North America helps build refractory products that solve the most extreme manufacturing challenges. From advanced lithium-ion batteries for laptops and EVs and specialized glass on smartphones and tablets, to the steel and cement that build the world around us, our high-performance bricks and linings make it possible to melt, bend, shape, and refine these materials at extreme temperatures.

With a vertically integrated value chain, RHI Magnesita has helped forge the materials that build industries and economies for almost 200 years.  Refractory products are essential to the production processes for cement, steel, aluminum, and many other industrial producers in the region.  

Disclaimer:

The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties, skills and responsibilities of the job. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned.