Maintenance Planner at SOUTHERN CHAMPION TRAY LLC

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

04 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

06 Mar, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Maintenance Planning, Reliability, Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, Work Prioritization, Resource Allocation, Asset Reliability, Workflow Management, Failure Trend Analysis, Capital Planning, Outage Planning, Job Standards, CMMS Expertise, Analytical Skills, Strategic Thinking, Cross-functional Communication

Industry

Packaging and Containers Manufacturing

Description

All jobs at Southern Champion Tray (SCT) require Team members to act in accordance with the shared Core Values and Operating principles of the company as they perform specific job functions. These include: * Trustworthy – We strive for our actions to match our words in all our relationships. * Servant–Hearted – We enable and empower our team to serve the needs of customers, Team members, suppliers and the community. * Relational – We aim to build healthy relationships while fostering an environment that promotes compassion, balance, and personal and professional growth. * Resourceful – We value strategic insourcing, first looking to create solutions internally, and then looking to apply that knowledge to future opportunities. Position Summary: The Maintenance Planner is responsible for the strategic planning, prioritization, and optimization of all preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. This role exercises independent judgment in establishing maintenance priorities, allocating labor and resources, and improving asset reliability to support plant safety, operational efficiency, and financial performance. The Maintenance Planner serves as the central authority for maintenance workflow management and reliability planning. Primary Responsibilities: * Develops and owns the site-wide maintenance planning and scheduling process. * Determines maintenance work prioritization based on safety risk, production impact, and asset criticality. * Independently reviews, approves, defers, or escalates work requests. * Establishes and maintains PM and PdM strategies aligned with reliability best practices. * Analyzes equipment failure trends and recommends corrective reliability improvements. * Evaluates downtime impact and advises plant leadership on risk mitigation strategies. * Influences capital planning through asset lifecycle analysis and replacement forecasting. * Leads annual outage/shutdown planning and resource allocation strategy. * Develops job standards, labor estimates, and planning accuracy targets. SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY: Supports the Maintenance & Plant Leadership Teams with data accuracy, job planning, inventory coordination, and continuous improvement of maintenance processes. * Plans and schedules all daily and weekend maintenance activities, including shutdown windows. * Develops, updates, and maintains Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Predictive Maintenance (PdM) schedules. * Creates and maintains critical spare parts lists for all existing and new assets added to the facility. * Serves as primary point of contact for OEMs and contractors regarding maintenance repair planning, technical guidance, and scheduling. * Reviews incoming work orders daily; ensures proper scope, parts, labor estimates, and safety requirements are included before scheduling. * Builds detailed job plans including tools, materials, parts lists, permits, and estimated labor hours. * Coordinates with Production, Maintenance Supervisors, and Engineering to schedule all work for our internal customers. * Maintains accurate equipment records and job histories. * Ensures job kitting is completed prior to scheduled work. * Tracks backlog, overdue work orders, and PM compliance. * Assists with annual shutdown/outage planning. * Analyzes failure trends and maintenance metrics. * Supports continuous improvement and reliability initiatives. * Helps train Team Members on CMMS usage and training matrix updates. * Prepares daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance reports. * Maintains a clean, safe work environment and follows all safety procedures. * Performs other duties as assigned. AUTHORITY & DECISION-MAKING: * Authority to prioritize and sequence all maintenance work. * Authority to approve or reject non-emergency work requests. * Authority to recommend equipment downtime scheduling. * Authority to recommend contractor utilization. * Exercises independent judgment in interpreting maintenance data and operational needs. QUALIFICATIONS: Education and Experience: * 3–5+ years of maintenance planning, reliability, or supervisory experience. * Strong understanding of mechanical and electrical systems. * Experience developing PM strategies and reliability programs. * CMMS expertise required. * Technical certification or associate degree preferred. Skills & Competencies: * Advanced analytical skills. * Strategic thinking. * Decision-making under limited supervision. * Financial impact awareness. * Strong cross-functional communication. LANGUAGE SKILLS: Must have the ability to read and understand documents, letters, etc. and write legibly in English. Must be able to understand and speak clearly, communicate, and understand directions in English as needed. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Must have the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide both fractions and decimals, solve equations, read a tape measure, and have an understanding of both standard and metric measuring systems. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, regularly required to walk, stand, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls and reach with arms and hands. Frequently required to climb, balance, twist, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Frequently must lift/move 25 to 75 pounds, occasionally lifts 75 to 100 pounds. Must be able to perform these functions for a minimum of 12 hours straight (with a 30-minute meal break and other applicable breaks during the shift) on a regular basis. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, but the essential functions cannot be eliminated or performed by others. Regular attendance and reporting for work on time are necessary requirements as is availability for overtime work if necessary. WORK ENVIRONMENT: Plant environment. Exposure to a dusty atmosphere with loud noise, which may require both eye and ear protection in some areas. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, but the essential functions cannot be eliminated or performed by others.

Responsibilities

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for the strategic planning, prioritization, and optimization of all maintenance activities, serving as the central authority for maintenance workflow management and reliability planning. Primary duties include developing the site-wide maintenance planning and scheduling process, determining work prioritization based on risk and impact, and establishing PM/PdM strategies.