Maintenance Planner

Overview Join   Reynolds Consumer Products …and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and high-performance organization. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We currently have an opportunity for a  Maintenance Planner  to join our team located in Hot Springs, AR. Responsibilities Your Role: The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, preparing, and optimizing maintenance work to support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of plant assets. This position serves as a key member of the Work Execution Management (WEM) process and is accountable for work order quality, job plan development, backlog management, material readiness, preventive maintenance optimization, and maintenance work readiness.

The Maintenance Planner works closely with Maintenance Supervisors, Operations, Engineering, Reliability, Scheduling, and Storeroom personnel to ensure maintenance work is fully defined, planned, and prepared before execution. The role supports the continuous improvement of asset reliability, maintenance productivity, and maintenance execution effectiveness through disciplined planning and work management practices.

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Work Planning and Preparation

Develop detailed maintenance job plans for corrective, preventive, predictive, condition-based, and project maintenance activities. Plan work based on priorities established by the Maintenance Area Supervisor and Area Team. Own release-to-schedule readiness for all planned maintenance work orders. Develop complete work packages including labor estimates, craft requirements, tools, materials, permits, safety requirements, procedures, and contractor support requirements. Utilize craft knowledge, engineering resources, OEM documentation, equipment history, and field inspections to develop accurate and effective maintenance job plans. Maintain strong knowledge of systems, equipment, and manufacturing processes within assigned areas of responsibility. Support outage planning by defining work scope, sequencing activities, identifying constraints, and assisting in critical path planning.

CMMS and Backlog Management

Review the maintenance backlog daily to ensure work orders are accurately defined, prioritized, and maintained within the CMMS. Verify work requests contain appropriate descriptions, asset assignments, priorities, and scope definitions. Remove duplicate work orders and improve overall backlog quality. Generate work requests for equipment requiring corrective maintenance when identified during routine activities. Maintain a minimum of two weeks of fully planned, ready-to-schedule, non-PM backlog within assigned areas. Maintain equipment history, job plans, and planning documentation within the CMMS. Support continuous improvement of CMMS data quality and work management processes.

Reliability and Maintenance Strategy

Support reliability improvement initiatives through development and optimization of preventive maintenance (PM), condition-based maintenance (CBM), and predictive maintenance programs. Optimize PM job plans utilizing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles and criticality-based decision making. Develop standard job plans, PM procedures, CBM tasks, standard work instructions, and maintenance documentation. Analyze condition monitoring and predictive maintenance reports and generate follow-up work orders as required. Track CBM program effectiveness and support efforts to reduce equipment failures, downtime, and maintenance costs. Assist with asset reliability improvement projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Material Readiness and Kitting

Ensure frequently used spare parts are established and maintained within the storeroom inventory. Identify and