Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner

Winpak Portion Packaging is seeking a Maintenance Planner to join our Maintenance team based in Sauk Village, Illinois. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented maintenance professional who enjoys building structure, improving reliability, and keeping operations running efficiently. In this position, you will play a key role in planning and coordinating maintenance work, supporting preventive maintenance efforts, and helping the team maximize equipment uptime, labor efficiency, and parts availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Review maintenance work orders and ensure all relevant details are captured before work is scheduled.
• Plan maintenance jobs by coordinating labor, materials, parts, and equipment access to reduce delays and improve execution.
• Manage work orders within the maintenance management system, including entry, tracking, and closure.
• Prepare and distribute weekly maintenance schedules and help facilitate weekly scheduling meetings.
• Monitor completed work orders and compare actual results against planned work to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Maintain equipment history, parts catalogs, and storeroom minimum and maximum inventory levels.
• Support the integrity and effectiveness of the preventive maintenance program, including reviewing frequencies and task lists.
• Track maintenance labor and material usage, identify trends, and provide reports and key performance indicators to leadership.
• Partner closely with operations, project teams, and maintenance leadership to support outages, repairs, contractor activity, and continuous improvement.
• Assist with special maintenance programs, technical documentation, purchasing coverage, and time reporting support as needed.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in maintenance planning, maintenance coordination, or a similar role in a manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to manage priorities, solve problems, and meet deadlines.
• Effective communication and coordination skills across teams.
• Ability to analyze maintenance issues and support continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting preventive maintenance and reliability programs in manufacturing.
• Experience maintaining equipment records, parts inventory, and technical documentation.
• Familiarity with maintenance reporting and performance metrics.
• Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, and quality standards in a regulated environment.

Additional Details

• Full-time, 100% onsite role based in Sauk Village, IL.
• Works closely with maintenance, operations, and project teams to support equipment reliability and maintenance execution.
• May provide back-up support for purchasing and UKG time reporting as needed.
• Position is based in a manufacturing environment with exposure to machinery, noise, and active production areas

Compensation range:

The compensation range provided is a general guideline only. The pay range is $80,000- $95,000. Pay will be determined based on the candidate's experience and expertise and is subject to vary.

Why Winpak?

Winpak is committed to providing comprehensive benefits to support the physical, mental, financial and social well-being of our employees and their families. Our benefit package includes the following:

• Medical, dental, vision & prescription coverage
• Travel coverage
• Disability coverage
• Voluntary life insurance
• Life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Tuition assistance program
• Retirement savings plans
• A comprehensive employee and family assistance program which includes the short term counselling, wellbeing coaching, financial and legal consultations services.

Winpak's vision is to provide the best packaging solutions for people and planet. We are a leading supplier of innovative packaging solutions, known for providing high-quality products that meet the needs of a variety of industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products. With a commitment to sustainability, safety, and excellence, Winpak continues to grow as a global leader in the packaging industry.

At Winpak, inclusion is one of our core values. We believe that an inclusive culture fosters a sense of belonging, drives innovation, and provides our brand a competitive advantage. Our goal is to create an environment free from harassment and discrimination, and where every individual feels respected, valued, and appreciated.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to an equitable and inclusive recruitment process, evaluating applicants based on merit, capability, and qualifications related to the job - never on identity factors such as race, color, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, national origin, or any other protected status. To support this commitment, if you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

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