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About this Associate Maintenance Planner role at Conagra Brands

Conagra Brands · Onsite · Darien, Wisconsin

Reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor, you will support plant reliability by planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities. You will manage preventive, planned, and unplanned maintenance work, prioritize work orders, maintain parts availability, support reliability improvements, and partner with production, engineering, accounting, and maintenance teams to improve equipment performance and plant efficiency.

 

A Taste of Your Responsibilities

  • Plan, prioritize, and schedule preventive, planned, and unplanned maintenance activities.
  • Manage maintenance work orders, job packages, and parts requirements to support operational needs.
  • Maintain appropriate spare parts inventory while identifying opportunities to reduce excess inventory and standardize materials.
  • Lead Drumbeat planning activities, including pre- and post-Drumbeat meetings and associated follow-up.
  • Partner with production, engineering, maintenance, accounting, and external vendors to resolve issues and ensure efficient execution of maintenance work.
  • Analyze backlog, rework, and equipment history to identify root causes and drive reliability improvements.
  • Support preventive maintenance optimization, task development, and maintenance master data maintenance.
  • Create reports, communicate planned and unplanned work updates, and support continuous improvement and cost reduction initiatives.
  • Provide support of standard work processes.

 

Ingredients Required for Your Success

  • High school diploma required; bachelor's degree preferred.
  • 3+ years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Experience with SAP or a computerized maintenance management system.
  • Maintenance planning experience or formal planner training.
  • Food manufacturing experience preferred.
  • Knowledge of machine repair and programmable logic controller systems.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
  • Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience interpreting technical information and managing competing priorities.
  • Proven success working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

 

Physical Requirements

More information about essential tasks and the facility will be shared during the hiring process. This role may require you to be in our manufacturing facilities. When visiting these sites, the physical requirements below may apply:  

  • You may be required to walk around the facility, climb stairs/ladders, kneel, or perform repetitive tasks that require hand-eye coordination.  
  • You may be required to lift or carry materials that can vary in weight and size.  
  • This is a manufacturing environment with large, moving equipment. Noise levels can be high, and temperatures may vary.

 

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Compensation 

Pay Range:$59,000-$79,000

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

  • Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement

  • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan

  • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement

  • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.

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About Conagra Brands

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye ®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®. Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome. Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qu

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