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Job Title: Maintenance Planner - Decatur, IL
Company Name: Archer Daniels Midland
Location: Decatur, IL United States
Position Type: Full Time
Post Date: 05/11/2026
Expire Date: 06/10/2026
Job Categories: Legal, Manufacturing and Production, Writing/Authoring
Job Description
Maintenance Planner - Decatur, IL
Maintenance Planner - Decatur, IL

Job Summary
  • Responsible for planning and coordinating manpower, parts, materials and equipment access to improve workforce productivity, safety and quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays.
  • Acts as a liaison between Production and Maintenance departments for planning purposes.
  • Uses Maximo and other computer systems to maintain records and files essential to meaningful analysis and reporting of maintenance information
  • The Planner must know the job well enough that they can describe what is to be accomplished and can estimate how many man-hours will be required
  • Communicate plans with all levels of the organization
Essential Job Functions
  • Strong commitment to Safety in the performance of maintenance efforts.
  • Work independently and with other plant personnel to plan for preventative, predictive and routine maintenance tasks. Schedule for predictive and preventative maintenance repairs
  • Complete data entry and management of equipment and repairs
  • Communicate effectively through speech and writing along with other mediums such as email
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to plan priorities effectively.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with all levels of the organization
  • Maintain equipment information and repair files
  • Track key planned maintenance metrics and communicate these metrics to the plant
  • Manage assigned mechanical contract work and assist in the supervision and control
  • Request parts and materials needed for work order packages and not stocked in the storerooms
  • Ensure adherence to standard work processes, including developing and integrating standards
  • Provide support to the team on nights, weekends, or holidays including on-call duties
  • Review the work plan with the respective site managers/​supervisors/​leads, and maintain communications for planned maintenance​
  • Create detailed job planning and communicate weekly maintenance work schedules which include: outage schedule, list of planned work orders, and resource requirements
  • Evaluates JSA requirements and requests support to develop when needed
  • Maintain clear, open communication with departments/requestor to determine total scope of work and the appropriate priority of work to be performed
  • Manage and understand the maintenance back log
  • Develop and manage AFEs for the facility
  • Ability to facilitate and run maintenance oriented meetings along with pre and post project review meetings
  • Develop a strong understanding of facility work rules
  • Develop a strong understanding of facility equipment
  • Act as a liaison between ADM and third party vendors
  • Ability to interpret maintenance manuals
  • Ability to learn and use Maintenance programs such as Maximo, Coupa
  • May perform reasonably similar or related duties as assigned
Job Requirements
  • Experience in industrial maintenance preferred
  • Preferred Knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems
  • Preferred Knowledge of planning software
  • Preferred Typically a minimum 1 year of experience in maintenance/reliability planning & scheduling in a GMP/FDA-regulated area
  • Proficient in the use of computer software tools (Email, spreadsheets, word processing and data-base)
  • Communicate effectively through speech and writing along with other mediums such as email
Working Conditions
  • Dust
  • Chemicals / Irritants
    • The scope of the position may have exposure to and use of chemicals, solvents, and cleaners that may be hazardous and/or cause injury if specific instructions regarding their mixture, use, and disposal/storage are not properly followed.
  • Inside areas:
    • Spring / Summer: Temperatures in some areas of the facility will be up to or exceed 100 degrees
    • Fall / Winter: Temperatures in the facility may be at or below freezing.
  • Outside areas:
    • Spring / Summer: Outside temperature may be up to or exceed 100 degrees with potential for high humidity. May be exposed to inclement weather conditions including, but not limited to, rain and wind.
    • Fall / Winter: Outside temperatures reaches freezing or below. May be exposed to inclement weather including, freezing rain, sleet, snow and wind.
  • Some manufacturing processes within the facility are highly reliant on machinery and other processing equipment and, as a result, noise levels may reach or exceed 85 decibels and require use of hearing protection for most of the work shift
Physical Requirements
  • Must be able to lift up to 50lbs from waist to shoulder on an occasional basis
  • Push/pull requirement up to 50lbs
  • Requires a full range of physical motion to move throughout the facility, including climbing stairs in all buildings, and to work at heights
  • Must be able to walk 1-3 hours
  • Must be able to sit 5-8 hours
  • Must be able to squat/kneel on an occasional basis
  • Must be able to climb stairs/ladders on an occasional basis
  • Constant computer/keyboarding
  • Prolonged standing and frequent bending, stooping, walking, and reaching on a daily basis
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.

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Contact Information
Company Name: Archer Daniels Midland
Website:https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?PageType=JobDetails&partnerid=25416&siteid=5998&jobid=3366881&codes=HBCU#
Company Description:
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.
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