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Maintenance Planner

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Aug 2025

💰 $105,000/yr($80,000/yr – $105,000/yr)

About the role

At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members’ personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.

Summary:

The Maintenance Planner at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Maintenance team supporting efforts to optimize plant safety and efficiency, minimize production downtime, promote cost reduction, and drive continue improvement projects. This position involves building and maintaining our maintenance management system (Maintain-X) to ensure efficient and proper planning and scheduling of work orders and preventative maintenance aligned with production demands. This role demands a high level of organization, adaptability, and willingness to work collaboratively with management, maintenance and skilled labor team members.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Material and Work Order Management:

Review maintenance work requests/orders for accuracy, clarity, resources and materials needed.
Obtain and organize all information required for the work being performed (i.e. drawings, vendor manuals, special procedures, etc.).
Create, modify, release, monitor and prioritize maintenance orders in the maintenance management system daily, addressing issues promptly to avoid unnecessary delays.
Prepare requisitions to ensure materials, parts, labor and other expenses are allocated to the appropriate work order.
Use critical planning methods to coordinate and optimize workflows.
Establish and maintain advance work planning for capital improvement and job order contract projects.

2. Monitoring and Reporting:

Maintain and monitor a weekly schedule for all work orders to meet safety, production, and efficiency concerns and adjust timelines as priorities change.
Verifies all material, information, tools, and labor are available prior to scheduling.
Prepare and present comprehensive reports tracking work order status, project timeline updates, spend to budget, and recommendations for changes as needed.
Analyze supply needs to reduce excess inventory and material shortfalls.

3. Collaboration and Coordination:

Collaborate with Maintenance and Warehouse teams to control spare part usage to maximize inventory control through regular turnover and reduce maintenance costs.
Coordinate maintenance needs with operational leaders to minimize downtime.
Assists in the development, evaluation, and implementation of detailed standard operating and preventative maintenance procedures.
Communicate and coordinate inter/intra plant inventory and material transfers as necessary.
Assist with review of requests for proposal, contracts for maintenance, and similar documents for accuracy, cost analysis, approach, requirements, and recommend appropriate action.
Demonstrate and champion superior customer service, integrity, and commitment to innovation, efficiency, and fiscally responsible activity.

Additional responsibilities may be assigned as deemed necessary to support the overall goals and objectives of the position.

What You Bring to Pacific Seafood:

Required:

High School Diploma or GED
Minimum 3 years of skilled trade experience in electrical, building maintenance, refrigeration, or production operations
Proficiency using MS Office and computerized maintenance management systems
Previous experience in planning and scheduling in a production / maintenance environment
Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions.
Effective communication skills w