Maintenance Planner

Description: Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose.

At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours:

Lactalis USA, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Maintenance Planner based in Buffalo, New York.

Summary: As a Maintenance Planner, the role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and preparing maintenance activities to improve equipment reliability, work execution, and plant performance. The role includes maintenance planning and scheduling, preventive maintenance administration, CMMS data management, spare-parts readiness, reliability improvement initiatives, and cross-functional coordination. Additionally, the role collaborates with Maintenance, Operations, Reliability, Engineering, Procurement, and Storeroom teams.

KEY Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop maintenance job plans including labor, parts, tools, safety requirements and work scope.
• Maintain a ready-to-schedule backlog and support weekly maintenance scheduling.
• Review, prioritize and plan maintenance work requests.
• Prepare work packages for shutdowns, outages and planned maintenance activities.
• Create and maintain PMs, job plans, inspection tasks, work orders and BOMs in IBM Maximo.
• Support Root Cause Analysis and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate spare parts, contractor services and materials readiness.
• Monitor PM compliance, schedule compliance, backlog and other maintenance KPIs.
• Ensure safety requirements are incorporated into maintenance work plans.

Requirements:

Work conditions:

• Travel is minimal.
• Extended hours may be required during shutdowns, outages, projects, or operational needs. Position requires regular presence in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications:

• 3-5+ years of maintenance planning, scheduling, maintenance, reliability, or manufacturing experience; food/dairy preferred.

Knowledge:

• IBM Maximo or equivalent CMMS, preventive maintenance, mechanical/electrical maintenance, Excel.

Education and/or Experience:

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

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.