Maintenance Planner (Pulp & Paper)

Location: Oxnard, California, US; office-based. Approximately 15% travel throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Company

hirify.global delivers engineering technologies and service solutions for key industrial sectors, including pulp and paper.

What you will do

• Plan, prioritize, and schedule maintenance work orders for a paper mill using IBM Maximo.
• Develop job plans covering labor, durations, tools, permits, materials, procedures, drawings, and safety requirements.
• Coordinate weekly and daily maintenance schedules with operations, supervisors, contractors, storeroom personnel, procurement, and maintenance crafts.
• Maintain equipment hierarchies, preventive maintenance tasks, job plans, asset records, and work order data in Maximo.
• Support preventive and predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, failure investigations, and maintenance strategy improvements.
• Track schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog management, MTBF, equipment availability, and maintenance cost performance.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in maintenance planning, maintenance supervision, reliability, or industrial maintenance.
• Experience using a CMMS and understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, P&IDs, equipment manuals, and maintenance procedures.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with strong attention to safety and reliability.

Nice to have

• Experience in pulp, paper, tissue, packaging, or other heavy manufacturing industries.
• Knowledge of vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and motor diagnostics.
• Experience with outage planning and execution.
• Familiarity with SAP, Power BI, or maintenance KPI dashboards.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent employment in an office-based industrial maintenance role.
• Focus on safety, reliability, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Coordination with maintenance contractors and support for contractor safety and permitting processes.
• Travel across the United States, Canada, and Mexico is required at approximately 15%.