• Develop, prioritize, and schedule preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance work orders.
• Plan and coordinate jobs for multi-trade teams including pipefitters, electricians, and millwrights, ensuring labor, tools, permits, and materials are in place before execution.
• Ensure all work plans include accurate task durations, safety protocols, drawings, procedures, and QA/QC steps.
• Create detailed job plans including labor requirements, parts, tools, permits, and safety procedures.
• Develop and maintain Gantt charts and weekly maintenance schedules using CMMS or planning software (e.g., SAP, Maximo, MS Project).
• Plan and schedule plant-wide shutdowns and turnarounds in coordination with operations and engineering.
• Maintain and continuously improve job plan libraries for repetitive work.
• Coordinate work with maintenance technicians, electricians, pipefitters, engineers, and contractors.
• Communicate planned work clearly with affected departments to minimize operational impact.
• Participate in daily maintenance and production meetings to align priorities and update status.

• Lead the planning and coordination of major plant shutdowns for the Crush, Refinery, and Cogen units.
• Develop shutdown schedules, detailed scopes of work, Gantt charts, and manpower loading plans.
• Collaborate with operations, engineering, contractors, and vendors to ensure timely and safe shutdown execution.
• Track progress during outages, address deviations, and lead post-shutdown review for continuous improvement.

• Champion the standardization of the work order process within the CMMS system (e.g., SAP, Maximo).
• Ensure work orders are clearly defined with appropriate asset codes, failure codes, priority levels, and completion notes.
• Develop planning KPIs such as schedule compliance, PM completion rate, backlog, and planning accuracy.
• Train maintenance staff and contractors on work order best practices and CMMS usage.

• Coordinate with the storeroom/warehouse supervisor to ensure availability of required parts, tools, and safety equipment for all planned work.
• Interface with purchasing and vendors for specialty materials and outside service contractors.
• Ensure contractors are properly onboarded, qualified, and provided with clear scopes and expectations for planned work.

• Ensure all planned work follows plant safety procedures including LOTO, confined space entry, and hot work.
• Incorporate risk assessments and job safety analyses (JSAs) into all major job plans.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, environmental, and regulatory standards applicable to plant operations.

• Analyze equipment history and maintenance trends to recommend improvements.
• Track and report on maintenance KPIs including schedule compliance, downtime, and work order backlog.
• Assist with reliability initiatives such as RCM and root cause analysis.

• Technical diploma or degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Maintenance preferred.
• Minimum 5-10 years of maintenance planning experience in an industrial manufacturing setting.
• Prior experience in agri-processing, food manufacturing, or energy systems (boilers/turbines) is highly desirable.
• Required Hands-on experience with equipment used in soy oilseed crushing, refining, and cogeneration systems.

• Strong working knowledge of maintenance best practices, reliability concepts, and CMMS systems (e.g., SAP PM, Maximo).
• Proficiency in reading technical drawings, P&IDs, and OEM manuals.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and lead large-scale coordination efforts during plant outages.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills to collaborate with operations, engineering, and external vendors.
• Required proficient skills in using Maximo, Excel, Gantt Chatt development, other planning software's

• Mix of office and field environment 50%-50%; must be able to access all areas of the plant, may require work on ladders, scaffolding or other work at heights or in confined spaces.
• Requires walking, climbing, and inspection in industrial settings during maintenance and shutdowns.
• Occasional extended hours or weekend work may be required during shutdowns or emergency repairs.

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