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Maintenance Planner

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Lineage

Software Engineering
Bedford Park, IL, USA
USD 21.15-36.25 / hour
Posted on Jan 31, 2026

Shift Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00am - 3:30pm

At Lineage, the world’s largest temperature-controlled logistics company, you will play a critical role as a Maintenance Planner, serving as the key connection between operations and maintenance. In this role, you will use our CMMS system to plan and schedule preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance that keeps equipment running at peak performance. By driving reliability, efficiency, and safety, your expertise will directly reduce downtime, boost productivity, and ensure smooth operations across the facility.

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary liaison between maintenance, operations, and planning teams to ensure timely and professional service.
  • Review and validate work requests, defining job scope, priority, labor, and material needs.
  • Develop job plans, estimates, and schedules 2–4 weeks in advance to reduce unplanned downtime and optimize labor efficiency.
  • Identify, secure, and manage spare parts, ensuring proper inventory control and critical spare availability.
  • Create and issue job packets with work instructions, safety guidelines, and parts lists.
  • Utilize CMMS to track work order status from submission through completion; maintain backlog visibility and accuracy.
  • Lead planning and scheduling meetings, aligning with operations on downtime windows, resource allocation, and job sequencing.
  • Monitor performance metrics (PM compliance, backlog relief, schedule accuracy, labor effectiveness) and report results to leadership.
  • Support continuous improvement by refining job plans, incorporating technician feedback, and ensuring safety is prioritized in all tasks.
  • Assist with regulatory compliance, including PSM/RMP documentation for ammonia and environmental systems.

Key Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, or industrial maintenance (warehouse, manufacturing, or processing environment preferred).
  • Strong working knowledge of maintenance processes and CMMS systems.
  • Ability to interpret technical documentation, including work orders, diagrams, and equipment manuals.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word) with solid math and analytical skills.
  • Excellent organizational, planning, and multitasking ability; able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to collaborate effectively across departments.
  • Understanding safety, electrical, fire protection, and regulatory standards.
  • Comfortable working in cold storage environments (as low as -20°F) and around moving mechanical equipment with PPE provided.
Pay Range:$21.15 - $36.25

Why Lineage?

This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.

Benefits


Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.