Maintenance Planner

Mowi USA • Full-time • Belfast, Maine, United States • $63,173 - $88,163 / year • 3m ago

The Industrial Maintenance Planner coordinates preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance in a regulated food manufacturing environment. This role ensures equipment reliability while maintaining compliance with FDA, BAP, SQF/BRC, and internal GMP standards.

The Planner oversees maintenance workflows in the EAM system, ensuring accurate documentation, audit readiness, and cross-functional coordination. The role also manages MRO inventory and critical spare parts to reduce downtime and avoid production disruptions.

Work Environment

Industrial/Manufacturing Plant from Belfast, ME
Morning Shift | Monday – Friday | 8:00AM – 4:30PM

Responsibilities

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

Use the EAM system as the central platform for maintenance planning and scheduling.
Develop detailed job plans outlining scope, labor, parts, food safety measures, sanitation coordination, and LOTO procedures.
Coordinate schedules with Production, Quality, and Sanitation to minimize food safety risks.
Plan maintenance around allergen changeovers, sanitation windows, and production constraints.
Maintain weekly schedules, ensure proper work order documentation, and track PM compliance, downtime, emergency work, and reliability metrics.
Ensure all work orders are properly coded, documented, and closed in the EAM system.
Track PM compliance, emergency work percentage, downtime, and equipment reliability metrics.

Food Safety & Regulatory Compliance

Ensure maintenance activities comply with GMPs, HACCP, SQF/BRC, and FDA/USDA regulations.
Integrate food safety controls into job plans and coordinate post-maintenance sanitation and pre-op inspections.
Maintain accurate documentation to support audits, inspections, traceability, and corrective actions.

EAM System Ownership & Data Integrity

Maintain accurate asset hierarchies, equipment data, and BOMs within the EAM system.
Link spare parts to assets and job plans to standardize execution and capture failure data, labor hours, and parts usage.
Generate compliance and reliability reports, analyze equipment history to improve PMs, and support continuous improvement.
Train technicians on proper EAM documentation and food-safe maintenance practices.

Preventive & Predictive Maintenance

Develop and maintain a strong preventive maintenance program within the EAM system.
Optimize PM frequencies based on failure trends and food safety risk.
Coordinate predictive maintenance technologies, including vibration, thermography, oil analysis, and ultrasonic inspections.
Support root cause analysis and reliability improvement initiatives.

Parts Inventory & MRO Management

Manage MRO inventory in the EAM system, maintaining min/max levels for critical food production equipment.
Identify and classify critical spare parts, ensuring food-grade compliance where needed.
Conduct cycle counts, annual inventories, and standardize parts to eliminate duplicates.
Keep storerooms organized and audit-ready, and collaborate with Purchasing for approved vendors and compliant materials.

Qualifications and Skills

Requirements

Minimum 3 years of maintenance experience in manufacturing.
Experience with EAM/CMMS systems.

Technical Knowledge

Familiarity with GMP, HACCP, SQF/BRC standards, and FDA/USDA regulations.
Knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
Experience with processing, packaging, or refrigeration systems preferred.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and maintenance reporting tools.

Core Competencies

Strong planning and organizational skills.
High attention to detail and accuracy in documentation.
Ability to work cross-functionally with Quality and Operations.
Analytical and data-driven decision-making.
Commitment to food safety and regulatory compliance.

Education

Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Maintenance, Engineering, or a related field preferred.

**All requirements and skills are considered to be essential, unless otherwise indicated**

**Mowi-Ducktrap is an Equal Opportunity Employer**

The above job description is not an all-encompassing list of duties and responsibilities required of the employee for this job.

Mowi-Ducktrap is a Drugfree Workplace.

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Job Type: Full-time

Expected hours: 40 per week

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