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Maintenance Planner

PURIS
Dawson, MN, US, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Oct 2025

About the role

Description

  At PURIS, we're dedicated to cultivating a better food system and making a positive impact. How do we do it? By transforming high-quality, USA-made ingredients into essential components for a wide range of everyday products. From cereals and snacks to protein beverages and beyond, our ingredients are powering a healthier future. This is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to be part of a growing food industry. You'll work with state-of-the-art engineering and work together with your peers to build a better food future.                     


Overview: Dawson, MN - Manufacturing 

At our Dawson, MN facility, you're at the heart of it all. As the largest pea protein plant in North America, this facility is the backbone of our operations. Here, we take raw materials and transform them into the vital ingredients that end up in countless food products, from those in our kitchens to shelves across the country. If you're someone who loves to solve problems on the fly and has a keen eye for detail, you'll thrive here. Most importantly, your commitment to safety ensures that every team member goes home healthy and safe at the end of each day. We're proud to share that PURIS was awarded Manufacturer of the Year in 2024 by Twin Cities Business Journal, a testament to the hard work and dedication of our teams!                     


The Maintenance Planner uses proven maintenance planning methods and techniques to optimize resource use while maximizing system availability, throughput, quality, safety, and environmental performance, and reducing equipment time to repair, in compliance with all applicable standards, procedures, and policies. The Planner creates accurate, effective job plans and ensures resources are ready for execution of scheduled maintenance work. The Planner follows all company environmental, safety and health guidelines in planning day-to-day, downturn, and outage activities for facility maintenance teams. They order required parts, ensure required tools and equipment are available, and request and coordinate subcontracted service. The Planner works with the Scheduling Team to schedule maintenance work activities. The Planner ensures work orders are properly closed, with required information, manages the CMMS, and maintains equipment records. 


  

Pay Rate/Range: $28.00

Pay Frequency: Biweekly

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Work Location: Dawson Pea Manufacturing 

Travel: None



Planning:

  • Follow all Safety, GMP, PURIS. and other established policies, processes, procedures, standards, and practices while achieving defined key performance indicators (KPIs) and meeting PURIS and plant goals and objectives
  • Develop and update preventive and corrective maintenance job plans; support development of predictive/condition monitoring routes
  • Act as liaison between Work Requester and Reliability Maintenance Team to ensure quality and success of work.
  • Perform field walkdowns; identify EHS and Food Safety hazards and considerations; complete bid activities; generate job plans and procedures with appropriate level of detail, to include material, people, and time required to execute work; identify and, as needed, reserve/ requisition/ procure parts, specialized equipment and tools, consumables, drawings, manuals, permits, and documents; develop cost estimates; and identify time and coordination issues.
  • Create and maintain standard work library for repetitive work
  • Obtain, review, and discuss feedback from field; adjust job plans for future use

Scheduling:

  • Collaborate with others to scope and plan daily, CIP, and outage work/projects and resolve job priority, due date, and other issues
  • Collaborate with others to create schedules for executing planned work during CIP and Runtime
  • Document, print, and communicate maintenance work schedules
  • Communicate with contractor resources on specific work orders assigned to the contractors. Ensure work order details and performance expectations are clearly communicated and understood. 
  • Confirm availability of required resources prior to schedule confirmation meeting; arrange for appropriate alternatives as required

CMMS Management:

  • Close work orders when work is completed
  • Manage CMMS use and data, to include 52-week (PM and PdM) plan, job plans, subcontracted work, work order life and history, job status, closing codes, repair costs, and other CMMS information
  • Ensure equipment and repair parts and usage information is accurate and

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