Job Description

The Maintenance Planner plans, organizes, and schedules preventive and predictive maintenance utilizing maintenance personnel and ensuring parts are on hand. Provides long and short term maintenance plans for productions departments and records all maintenance activities. The Maintenance Planner reports to the Manufacturing Maintenance Superintendent.

Accountabilities

• Analyzes each job with the technicians to make sure the jobs are safe to perform
• Plans and schedules both daily preventive and predictive maintenance activities
• Plan and schedule jobs for routine downs and annual outages
• Works daily in the CMMS (SAP) for organizing and closing out work orders
• Maintains both the notification and the work order backlog
• Hold planning and scheduling meetings with the maintenance and operational team in order to make sure the jobs are planned and scheduled in order of priority
• Schedules a variety of maintenance operations and analyzes new work orders to develop, prepare, and publish a master schedule on short range projects
• Establish cost estimates and supply projections for long and short-range maintenance projects.
• Analyzes and adjusts maintenance schedules that are affected by changes in arrival date of parts or equipment
• Work with Reliability to update frequency and descriptions of the PM maintenance items and maintenance plans
• Work with maintenance and reliability team to update BOMs in the CMMS
• Balances production needs with maintenance schedule and updates schedules accordingly
• Recommends issues and follows up on preventative maintenance inspections and procedures
• Ensure that all safety procedures and policies are followed according to job assignment
• Actively pursue measures to reduce downtime on plant equipment, identify opportunities, and take measures to reduce waste
• Act as a resource for the maintenance technicians 
• Manage contractors as needed for onsite work
• Every employee must implement Kruger environmental policy in their daily tasks. In particular, employees are responsible to abide by legal and corporate environmental requirements and must adhere to all environmental procedures. Every employee is responsibly to report all environmental incidents and any potential environmental hazards

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this job description.

Kruger Products is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. We thank all applicants for their interest in Kruger Products but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.