Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

Job Description

Job Description

Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

Location: Melrose Park, IL
Industry: Food Manufacturing

Work Arrangement: Onsite

A growing food manufacturer is hiring a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler to coordinate preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. This position will help improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, manage the maintenance backlog, and ensure technicians have the information and parts needed to complete scheduled work.

You will also serve as the primary administrator and power user of the company’s Fiix computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

Responsibilities

• Plan, prioritize, and schedule preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance work orders.
• Coordinate maintenance activities with Production, Quality, Engineering, and Sanitation.
• Administer Fiix CMMS and maintain equipment assets, work-order histories, costs, PM schedules, and reports.
• Review work requests and identify the labor, materials, spare parts, tools, procedures, and estimated time required.
• Monitor open work orders and manage the maintenance backlog.
• Track and report PM compliance, mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), downtime, and backlog.
• Support spare-parts inventory and ensure materials are available before scheduled work begins.
• Identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability, increase uptime, and reduce maintenance costs.
• Support continuous-improvement and reliability initiatives.
• Ensure maintenance activities and documentation meet safety, GMP, SQF, sanitation, and food-safety requirements.
• Communicate maintenance priorities and equipment status across Maintenance and Operations.

Qualifications

• One to three years of maintenance planning or scheduling experience in manufacturing.
• Experience using a CMMS to manage work orders, equipment records, PM schedules, maintenance history, costs, and reporting.
• Knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, refrigeration, and hydraulic systems.
• Experience coordinating maintenance activities around production requirements.
• Understanding of PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, downtime, and backlog metrics.
• Experience supporting maintenance inventory and spare-parts management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and maintenance reporting.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work onsite in Melrose Park, Illinois.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Direct Fiix CMMS experience.
• Food or dairy manufacturing experience.
• Knowledge of GMP, SQF, sanitation, and food-safety standards.
• Bilingual English and Spanish communication skills.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This position offers the opportunity to directly improve maintenance planning, equipment reliability, technician productivity, and production uptime. You will work across several departments and play a central role in how maintenance work is scheduled, documented, and measured.

CEO Inc. is an award-winning, full-service search firm that centers on people and is committed to finding the right fit for our candidates and clients alike. For over 25 years CEO Inc. has successfully placed top professionals in Engineering, and Production roles within the manufacturing industry at both top-tier and growing companies.

Company Description

CEO Inc. is an award-winning, full-service search firm that centers on people and is committed to finding the right fit for our candidates and clients alike. For over 25 years CEO Inc. has successfully placed top professionals in Engineering, and Production roles within the manufacturing industry at both top-tier and growing companies.