Senior Maintenance Planner
Flora Food Group
Salary undisclosed
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Description
Location: New Century, KS Factory
Working Model: On-site
Contract Type: Full time
Why this role matters
In your first year, you will deliver a well-structured maintenance schedule that maximizes equipment uptime and supports production goals. This role is essential to Flora Food Group’s commitment to reliable, high-quality food production by ensuring maintenance activities are planned and executed efficiently. You will connect maintenance planning with operational needs, helping to prevent breakdowns and improve equipment reliability. Your work directly supports the kitchens and production lines that bring better food to tables every day.
What you'll do
- Develop detailed job plans that clearly define scope, labor, materials, and safety requirements to ensure maintenance work is well-prepared and effective.
- Create and manage weekly and daily maintenance schedules, balancing priorities, labor availability, and parts to optimize equipment uptime.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date work orders and preventive maintenance schedules within the CMMS system to support reliability and continuous improvement.
- Coordinate with Maintenance leadership, Operations, Engineering, and other teams to align maintenance activities with production needs and minimize downtime.
- Analyze equipment failure trends and support root cause investigations to improve preventive maintenance and reduce breakdowns.
Performance
You will own the maintenance planning process, driving improvements in schedule compliance and reducing emergency repairs. Your data-driven approach will enhance equipment reliability and control maintenance costs through effective work order management. Success will be measured by improved maintenance backlog management, higher preventive maintenance effectiveness, and reduced unplanned downtime.
Care
You will report to the Maintenance Manager and work closely with a team of technicians, engineers, and operations staff. Your role requires collaboration across departments to ensure maintenance activities are safe, well-coordinated, and sustainable. By planning ahead and securing parts and resources, you help build a maintenance culture that supports long-term operational excellence and food quality.
Passion
You are passionate about the craft of maintenance planning and its impact on food production. Your curiosity about equipment performance and preventive strategies drives continuous improvement. You understand that reliable machinery is key to delivering consistent taste, nutrition, and functionality in every product Flora Food Group makes.
About you
You bring solid experience in industrial maintenance planning or scheduling, with a strong grasp of mechanical and electrical systems. You are skilled at organizing complex schedules and communicating clearly across teams. Your approach is methodical and data-driven, with a focus on improving maintenance effectiveness and equipment reliability. You challenge reactive maintenance habits and promote planned, preventive work.
You take pride in working for a company with over 150 years of expertise in food, and you understand that excellent work in every function is what allows Flora Food Group to put better food on tables around the world. You bring the same rigour and care to your discipline that our teams bring to every product, because how we work is as important as what we make.
Where this could lead to
This role typically leads to senior maintenance planning or reliability specialist positions within 2 to 3 years. You may also progress into maintenance management roles, overseeing larger teams and broader operational responsibilities as you deepen your expertise and leadership skills.
What's next
If this opportunity sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you.
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We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.
About this role
Flora Food Group's New Century factory is seeking a Senior Maintenance Planner to build and own a structured maintenance planning function that directly supports production reliability and food quality. In your first year, you'll develop detailed job plans, create weekly and daily maintenance schedules, and manage the CMMS system to maximize equipment uptime and shift the operation toward preventive rather than reactive maintenance. You'll work on-site as part of a contract role, reporting to the Maintenance Manager and coordinating closely with technicians, engineers, and operations teams to align maintenance activities with production needs.
This role suits someone with solid industrial maintenance planning or scheduling experience who understands mechanical and electrical systems and excels at organizing complex priorities across departments. You'll be data-driven and methodical, analyzing equipment failure trends, managing work orders, and driving improvements in schedule compliance and preventive maintenance effectiveness. Success is measured by reduced unplanned downtime, better backlog management, and controlled maintenance costs.
The position typically leads to senior reliability or maintenance management roles within two to three years as you deepen your expertise. Flora Food Group values rigorous, careful work across all functions—your discipline in planning will be part of what enables the company to deliver consistent quality in food production across its 150-year legacy.
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