**97718BR** **Job Title:** Facility Maintenance Planner & Scheduler - Mankato, MN **Department/Function:** Operations: Manufacturing, Production, Maintenance, Utilities **Job Description:** **Facility Maintenance Planner & Scheduler - Mankato, MN** **Position Summary:** The Maintenance Planner is a critical role responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimizing all maintenance work activities at the ADM Mankato Complex. This includes developing detailed work plans, standardizing the work order system, and leading plant-wide shutdowns yearly PMs, Monthly, Weekly, Daily. The planner works closely with maintenance teams leaders, contractors (pipefitters, electricians, millwrights), operations, and engineering to ensure safe, efficient, and timely completion of maintenance tasks across the Crush, Refinery, and Cogeneration (Cogen) areas. **Key Responsibilities:** **Work Planning & Scheduling** + Develop, prioritize, and schedule preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance work orders. + Plan and coordinate jobs for multi-trade teams including pipefitters, electricians, and millwrights, ensuring labor, tools, permits, and materials are in place before execution. + Ensure all work plans include accurate task durations, safety protocols, drawings, procedures, and QA/QC steps. + Create detailed job plans including labor requirements, parts, tools, permits, and safety procedures. + Develop and maintain Gantt charts and weekly maintenance schedules using CMMS or planning software (e.g., SAP, Maximo, MS Project). + Plan and schedule plant-wide shutdowns and turnarounds in coordination with operations and engineering. + Maintain and continuously improve job plan libraries for repetitive work. + Coordinate work with maintenance technicians, electricians, pipefitters, engineers, and contractors. + Communicate planned work clearly with affected departments to minimize operational impact. + Participate in daily maintenance and production meetings to align priorities and update status. **Shutdown & Turnaround Planning** + Lead the planning and coordination of major plant shutdowns for the Crush, Refinery, and Cogen units. + Develop shutdown schedules, detailed scopes of work, Gantt charts, and manpower loading plans. + Collaborate with operations, engineering, contractors, and vendors to ensure timely and safe shutdown execution. + Track progress during outages, address deviations, and lead post-shutdown review for continuous improvement. **Work Order System & Standardization** + Champion the standardization of the work order process within the CMMS system (e.g., SAP, Maximo). + Ensure work orders are clearly defined with appropriate asset codes, failure codes, priority levels, and completion notes. + Develop planning KPIs such as schedule compliance, PM completion rate, backlog, and planning accuracy. + Train maintenance staff and contractors on work order best practices and CMMS usage. **Materials & Contractor Coordination** + Coordinate with the storeroom/warehouse supervisor to ensure availability of required parts, tools, and safety equipment for all planned work. + Interface with purchasing and vendors for specialty materials and outside service contractors. + Ensure contractors are properly onboarded, qualified, and provided with clear scopes and expectations for planned work. **Safety, Compliance & Documentation** + Ensure all planned work follows plant safety procedures including LOTO, confined space entry, and hot work. + Incorporate risk assessments and job safety analyses (JSAs) into all major job plans. + Ensure compliance with food safety, environmental, and regulatory standards applicable to plant operations. **Reporting & Continuous Improvement** + Analyze equipment history and maintenance trends to recommend improvements. + Track and report on maintenance KPIs including schedule compliance, downtime, and work order backlog. + Assist with reliability initiatives such as RCM and root cause analysis. **Qualifications:** **Education & Experience** + Technical diploma or degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Maintenance preferred. + Minimum 5–10 years of maintenance planning experience in an industrial manufacturing setting. + Prior experience in agri-processing, food manufacturing, or energy systems (boilers/turbines) is highly desirable. + Required Hands-on experience with equipment used in soy oilseed crushing, refining, and cogeneration systems. **Skills & Competencies** + Strong working knowledge of maintenance best practices, reliability concepts, and CMMS systems (e.g., SAP PM, Maximo). + Proficiency in reading technical drawings, P&IDs, and OEM manuals. + Ability to manage multiple priorities and lead large-scale coordination efforts during plant outages. + Excellent communication and organizational skills to collaborate with operations, engineering, and external vendors. + Required proficient skills in using Maximo, Excel, Gantt Chatt development, other planning software’s **Working Conditions:** + Mix of office and field environment 50%-50%; must be able to access all areas of the plant, may require work on ladders, scaffolding or other work at heights or in confined spaces. + Requires walking, climbing, and inspection in industrial settings during maintenance and shutdowns. + Occasional extended hours or weekend work may be required during shutdowns or emergency repairs. Excited about this role but don’t think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings. ADM requires the successful completion of a background check. REF:97718BR **Req/Job ID:** 97718BR **City:** Mankato **State:** MN - Minnesota **Ref ID:** \#LI-CJ1 **:** **About ADM** At ADM, we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We’re a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world’s premier agricultural origination and processing company. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health and wellness, and more. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we enrich the quality of life the world over. Learn more at www.adm.com. **:** \#LI-Onsite **\t:** **\#IncludingYou** Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are cornerstones of ADM’s efforts to continue innovating, driving growth, and delivering outstanding performance. We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce and create welcoming, truly inclusive work environments — environments that enable every ADM colleague to feel comfortable on the job, make meaningful contributions to our success, and grow their career. We respect and value the unique backgrounds and experiences that each person can bring to ADM because we know that diversity of perspectives makes us better, together. We are committed to ensuring all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in our industry, as we strive to ensure our workforce represents the world that we help to feed: people of color, women, gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, veterans and persons with disabilities. For more information regarding our efforts to advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, please visit our website here: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | ADM. (https://www.adm.com/en-us/culture-and-careers/diversity-equity-inclusion/) **:** **Benefits and Perks** Enriching the quality of life for the world begins by taking care of our colleagues. In addition to competitive pay, we support your diverse needs with a comprehensive total rewards package to enhance your well-being, including: + **Physical wellness** – medical/Rx, dental, vision and on-site wellness center access or gym reimbursement (as applicable). + **Financial wellness** – flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401(k) with matching contributions and cash balance plan, discounted employee stock purchasing program, life insurance, disability, workers’ compensation, legal assistance, identity theft protection. + **Mental and social wellness** – Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and Colleague Giving Programs (ADM Cares). Additional benefits include: + Paid time off including paid holidays. + Adoption assistance and paid maternity and parental leave. + Tuition assistance. + Company-sponsored training and development resources, such as LinkedIn Learning, language training and mentoring programs. *Benefits may vary for bargained locations, confirm benefit eligibility with your recruiter. **:** Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. The pay range for this position is expected to be between: **:** $48,900.00 - $91,000.00