Maintenance Planner

At Ghirardelli, we’re on a mission to become a one billion dollar brand and beyond. We want to be every consumer’s first choice of premium chocolate, and we believe we can do that through our products and the way we do business, which are all inspired by our brand commitment to Making Life A Bite Better. We are a company committed to both personal and professional growth and believe that each employee contributes directly to Ghirardelli's growth and success.

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for supervising the efficient and effective use of planning and scheduling resources to conduct maintenance activities to maintain, improve, and build the manufacturing infrastructure. The Maintenance Department’s purpose is to Deliver Great Performance by driving world class equipment reliability.

Qualifications:

• Responsible for developing the daily and weekly maintenance workplan for 25-35 technicians over a 3-shift operation
• Manages work priority, developing job plans, defining parts and material, determining crafts and skills and engage the proper resources to execute the maintenance plan through collaboration with technicians
• Provides the equipment-related expertise and technical guidance for improving Preventive Maintenance (PM) activities
• Work with equipment vendors to understand frequency of rebuilds based on equipment hours of operation
• Attend meetings with technicians to exchange feedback on work order content.
• Issue scheduled work orders and PMs to maintenance team
• Work with storeroom and maintenance personnel to assemble kits containing required parts to perform overhauls, repairs and work order tasks
• Estimate, document and track required hours on work order tasks, total work order duration and skills required to perform the tasks and compile KPis to relevant Documentation.
• Manage backlogged work orders which require a major or significant portion of the facility to be shut down
• Follow up with supervisors and leads to ensure that completed work orders are turned in with instruction improvement comments in a timely fashion
• Determine and coordinate vendor delivered services
• Communicate with contractor resources directly monitor the performance expectations of the work order
• Manage backlogged work orders which require a major or significant portion of the facility to be shut down
• Become knowledgeable on the Ghirardelli CMMS and be able to train others on how to use it
• Participates in the process improvement teams as a team member in other Continuous Improvement initiatives as needed
• Ensure equipment is up to date on food safety preventative care and calibrations and documentation stored correctly