Maintenance Planner (1st Shift)

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Your Role at Baxter

This is where we make life-saving products

You have deep knowledge of and experience with manufacturing processes. You understand the importance of building relationships, establishing order, and maintaining clear communication channels. As a Maintenance Planner, you are willing to listen and inspire others by your actions. You also appreciate the stability of a large multinational company with a long history of growth and success. Your team is an extension of your family, and you know how to support them as individuals while helping them achieve results as a team.

Your Team

A manufacturing facility is a high-energy environment with little downtime. We have robust processes that ensure our employees are safe and healthy—both mentally and physically. We pride ourselves on being top of the line regarding cleanliness and safety.

What we offer from Day One:

• Shift flexibility to trade shifts and leverage overtime opportunities

• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage

• 160 hours of Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

• 401K match

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• Paid Parental Leave

• Tuition Reimbursement

What you'll be doing

• Assess service requests for validity, accuracy, clarity and completeness. Ensure compliance and expectations prior to approving service request.

• Manage work order and service request backlog.

• Prioritize and plan work orders based on asset criticality.

• Plan all aspects of non-emergency work orders to include parts required, estimated labor hours, special tools, detailed instructions and any coordination with contractors, other departments and support groups.

• Partner with maintenance, operations, quality, stockroom and vendors as necessary to ensure backlog work orders include everything necessary to complete the work order.

• Partners with other plant personnel to plan and schedule maintenance work.

• Work with technicians and reliability engineers to create non-Preventive Maintenance (PM) / non-Predictive Maintenance (PdM) job plans to include parts required, technical specifications, special tools and detailed instructions.

• Manage the maintenance job plan library.

• Use parts kitting process for PMs and all other work orders that can be scheduled and kitted.

• Discuss job details with originator of the work order as needed to clarify work and plan as required.

• Work closely with maintenance supervisors to ensure weekly assignments are delivered on time to continue supporting the planning process.

• Update job plans based on feedback from technicians, supervisors, managers and department engineers.

• Raise issues for requested work which does not appear to be valid, feasible or has cost constraints, or requires engineering design/change control.

• Prepare and submit ‘addition-to-stores’ requests as required.

What you'll bring

• Must be at least 18 years of age, High School Diploma or GED required, A.A.S in related curriculum preferred.

• Required to acquire planner certification within 1 year of employment.

• Minimum 5 years of previous industrial maintenance experience required.

• Minimum 2 years of previous industrial maintenance experience in assigned area preferred.

• Must have the knowledge, skill and ability to perform corrective, preventive, predictive and improvement tasks and projects on industrial assets and systems to develop job plans for others to implement.

• Knowledge and proficiency with Microsoft Office computer software and Maximo CMMS.

• Understand verbal and written safety and quality instructions and read and comprehend written work instructions including words and drawings.

• Must have basic English written and