Senior Maintenance Planner

What We Offer

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• We provide:

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Work-life flexibility
• Recognition and rewards
• Development and career opportunities
• A safe and inclusive workplace

Why You Will Love this Job

Under the direction of the Maintenance Manager, the Senior Maintenance Planner will Senior Maintenance Planner will be responsible for equipment reliability and maintenance management, leveraging SAP PM/CMMS to support maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution.

This position will be responsible for improving equipment reliability, maintenance effectiveness, work execution, and production uptime through strategic planning, coordination, and scheduling of non-reactive maintenance activities.

Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this position utilizes SAP and other maintenance systems to develop detailed job plans, manage preventive and predictive maintenance practices, support major outage planning and execution, and optimize the use of maintenance labor, contractors, materials, and financial resources.

The Senior Maintenance Planner role independently influences maintenance spending, contractor utilization, equipment reliability initiatives, and long-term asset performance through effective use of SAP maintenance data, reporting, and planning tools. Additionally, this role will track, analyze, and report maintenance KPIs to identify opportunities for improved maintenance performance and operational efficiency.

• Additionally, this role will track and report maintenance KPI's.
• This is a salaried position.
• Some weekend and holiday work may be required.
• Travel between three Rehlko Plants (Mosel, Kohler, and Kenosha) as needed.

• Success in this Senior Maintenance Planner role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, hands-on maintenance experience, and the ability to communicate effectively and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
• Significant time is spent in the field gathering information, validating job requirements, and seeking feedback from frontline leadership and skilled trades associates to develop safe, efficient, and executable work plans.

Through technical leadership, data-driven decision making, and a passion for continuous improvement, the Maintenance Planner leads cross-functional efforts to reduce downtime, improve asset performance, enhance maintenance productivity, and drive sustainable reliability improvements while fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.

Location: N7650 County Rd LS, Sheboygan, WI, 53083

• Work mode: Onsite Monday-Friday and some weekend and holiday work may be required
• Travel: Travel between three Rehlko Plants (Mosel, Kohler, and Kenosha) as needed.
• Relocation options available!
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring new or transfer visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

Work Flow Function

• Evaluate incoming work requests and continuous improvement (CI/ZIP) cards for required information and plan work appropriately.
• Determine job commencement date by priority, relative to the schedule, through consultation with production, maintenance supervision and material lead-time requirements.
• Evaluate existing and incoming work volumes and communicate with requester to establish priority and use partner contractors when necessary to meet established priority.
• Prepare a detailed weekly schedule that identifies daily activities, including allowance for emergency work and preapproved vacations.
• Revise the weekly schedule for major changes in project scope affecting resources and communicate these changes to all effected parties.

Planning Function

• Develop and document scope of work and limiting conditions through worksite evaluation and consultation with the requester, engineering, equipment suppliers and team leaders.
• Identify special tools, equipment and required trades. Arrange availability in accordance with the equipment availability through coordination with other planner groups and previously scheduled work.
• Identify required safety procedures and documents. Arrange availability of documents within the work plan and coordinate as needed.
• Determine required materials, engineered documentation, spare parts, and contractor resources necessary to execute planned work. Collaborate with Purchasing and Materials Management to optimize inventory levels, improve parts availability, and reduce maintenance delays.
• Review job plans as necessary with the maintenance team prior to commencement date.
• Establish sequence and duration of all craft skills, including sub-order requirements, and external support requirements.
• Document, archive and maintain repeatable job plans and bill of materials.
• Manage equipment documentation program including archiving, updates and removal of documentation for eliminated equipment.
• Analyze maintenance workload, equipment criticality, historical performance data, and labor availability to develop resource forecasts and maintenance schedules that maximize equipment availability and maintenance effectiveness.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance leadership to support reliability improvement initiatives, equipment life-cycle strategies, and corrective actions for recurring equipment failures.
• Coordinate meetings with engineering, supervisors, contractors and maintenance staff as required to ensure success through documentation of tasks to drive success.
• Develop maintenance labor, material, and contractor cost estimates for planned work, outages, and major repair activities. Provide recommendations regarding maintenance spending priorities, contractor utilization, and resource allocation to support budget objectives and operational requirements.

General Functions

• Serve as a key liaison between Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Purchasing, and contractors to align maintenance priorities with production objectives and business needs.
• Support planning and coordination activities for major maintenance outages, equipment rebuilds, and facility improvement projects, including labor forecasting, material readiness, and contractor coordination.
• Utilize SAP PM and other maintenance systems to manage asset information, maintenance planning data, performance reporting, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Provide technical planning expertise and guidance to maintenance leadership, engineers, skilled trades associates, and project teams regarding maintenance planning best practices and equipment reliability strategies.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical drawings.
• Monitor and analyze key maintenance performance indicators, including schedule compliance, PM completion, backlog health, labor utilization, equipment availability, and downtime trends. Develop recommendations and corrective actions to improve maintenance performance and asset reliability.
• Influences maintenance expenditures through labor planning, contractor utilization decisions, material forecasting, outage planning, and maintenance prioritization activities while supporting achievement of departmental budget objectives.
• Identify repeatable tasks for documentation as a standard operating procedure.
• Maintain a clean organized kitting and repairable area for materials and complete regular audits and communicate kitted material location on job plans.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing downtime, improving asset performance, optimizing maintenance costs, increasing workforce productivity, and enhancing operational sustainability.

Requirements

• 2-year degree with relevant experience
• 5+ years of maintenance experience
• 3-5 years of experience with SAP CMMS system required
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels.
• Basic computer skills with the ability to understand and learn programs quickly
• Must be a self-motivated, detail - oriented individual that operates in a consistent manner.
• Strong analytical skillsSAP, MS Office suite, SmartSheet, Power BI, AutoCAD proficiency
• Language proficiency in English
• Must have US Drivers License

Pay and benefits

The Salary range for this position is $73,400.00-$92,500.00.The specific Salary rate offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, their education, and the work location.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

It is the policy of Rehlko to comply with all applicable provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and corresponding national, state, local, or other applicable laws. Rehlko will not discriminate against any qualified associate or applicant with respect to any terms, privileges, or conditions of employment because of a person's physical or mental disability. If you have a disability and require an accommodation in the application process or during the course of employment, please contact.