Maintenance Reliability Planner

Job Description

Summary: 

The Maintenance Reliability Planner is responsible for developing, coordinating, and optimizing maintenance plans that maximize equipment reliability, safety, and production uptime. This role serves as the primary administrator of the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and supports asset management initiatives through the application of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles, preventive maintenance optimization, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate has experience in heavy industrial manufacturing environments, preferably within a foundry or steel mill. This individual will work closely with operations, maintenance, engineering, and storeroom personnel to ensure maintenance activities are effectively planned, scheduled, executed, and documented. A results-oriented maintenance professional who combines strong planning and CMMS expertise with reliability and asset management knowledge. The ideal candidate drives continuous improvement, reduces reactive maintenance, improves equipment uptime, and partners effectively with operations to achieve production and maintenance objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include those listed below.  Other duties may be assigned.  This position is a full-time (minimum 40 hours per week) on-site position. 

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

• Develop detailed maintenance job plans including labor requirements, tools, materials, permits, and equipment access requirements.
• Plan and schedule preventive, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance activities.
• Build maintenance work packages that contain safety requirements, procedures, technical drawings, parts lists, and resource needs.
• Monitor work order backlog and prioritize activities based on safety, reliability, production impact, and asset criticality.
• Support outage and plant shutdown planning activities from scope development through execution.
• Plan the work for outside contractors, make contracts, field investigations, file searches to define scope of work and organize jobs in a timely manner.
• Utilize the CMMS to improve, modify and add Bill of Materials (BOM), Preventive Maintenance 
• Tasks (PM), controlled documents, standard job plans, JSA, drawings, etc.

CMMS Administration

• Serve as the primary CMMS administrator.
• Maintain accurate equipment hierarchies, asset records, BOMs, PM programs, and maintenance history.
• Ensure work orders are properly documented, coded, and closed with accurate labor and material reporting.
• Develop standard reports and dashboards to monitor maintenance performance.
• Train maintenance personnel on CMMS usage and best practices.
• Audit data quality and ensure adherence to maintenance processes.

Inventory & Storeroom Coordination

• Partner with storeroom personnel to maintain appropriate inventory levels for critical spare parts.
• Develop and manage spare parts strategies based on equipment criticality and reliability risk.
• Verify material availability prior to scheduling maintenance work.
• Assist with cycle counts, inventory optimization, and obsolete inventory reduction initiatives.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead initiatives to improve maintenance planning effectiveness and schedule compliance.
• Identify opportunities to reduce maintenance costs while improving reliability.
• Support Lean Manufacturing, TPM, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Develop and monitor KPIs related to maintenance performance and asset reliability.
• Participate in capital projects, equipment upgrades, and commissioning activities.
• Analyze equipment failure data, maintenance trends, and historical records to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations and corrective action implementation.

​​​​​​​Supervisory Responsibilities: Plan and manage contract work within the plant

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Assertive and influential in coordinating others to provide planning and scheduling assistance.
• Effectively communicates with all levels of employees and contractors.

• Must be able to plan, coordinate and delegate all planning related activities.
• Well organized, detail oriented, disciplined, and creative in finding solutions.
• Have an understanding of planning functions and Best Practice Maintenance.
• Be able to effectively prioritize work tasks.
• Excellent computer skills.
• CMMS system experienced professional

The McWane Way defines the values and behaviors expected of every employee and leader. Our culture is built on eight core principles: Trust, Excellence, Teamwork, Accountability, Leadership, Communication, Safety, and Environment. These principles guide how we make decisions, interact with one another, serve our customers, and support our communities. Employees are expected to demonstrate integrity, take ownership of results, work collaboratively, communicate openly, lead by example, and maintain an unwavering commitment to safety, environmental stewardship, and continuous improvement in all aspects of their work.

Education and/or Experience:   Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years related experience and/or training required; OR an equivalent combination of related education and/or 10+ years’ experience in an Industrial Environment. Asset Management experience preferred.

Computer Skills: Computer literate; proficient with Microsoft Windows, MS Office programs and applications for word processing, email, database management and spreadsheets.  CMMS administration experience.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.