Maintenance Planner

 Summary: The Maintenance Planner is primarily responsible for the planning and preparing in advance for a successful completion of future maintenance work.  This take a project management perspective and is the process of establishing the sequence and relationship of a series of actions and requirements prior to maintenance work commencing, along with the procuring and providing the parts and resources needed to deliver the work plan.  Scheduling is the settling of order and time for planned events.  Scheduling involves taking decisions regarding the allocation of available capacity or resources to jobs, activities, and tasks over time.  Scheduling thus results in a time phased plan or schedule of activities.  The schedule indicated what is to be done, when, by whom, and with what equipment.  Scheduling seeks to achieve several conflicting objectives; high-efficiency, low inventory and good customer service.

Hours:  7am - 3:30pm

Schedule:  Monday - Friday

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

·         Prioritizes and delegates maintenance work based on available time and resources.

·         Keeps accurate records of maintenance work to show effectiveness, backlog, equipment analysis and demand on resources.

·         Ensures parts and labor resources are available when scheduling for a job to be performed.

·         Provides Maintenance Manager with a weekly report of planned events, backlog and suggested changes to the preventative maintenance schedule based off of failure analysis.

·         The responsibilities of maintaining and testing of the maintenance management software (EAM).

·         Scheduling of workforce, including vacations, personal days, and birthdays.

·         Scheduling of any additional labor needed to complete projects or tasks with managers direction.

·         Conducts routine system audits of timekeeping system, inventory management system, and maintenance management software.

·         Coordination and scheduling of maintenance contractors including verification of GMP training, issuing access cards, planning and coordination of planned contractor work in conjunction with production schedules, etc.

·         Understand how to use the inventory system and manage transactions in Oracle.

·         Adheres to and enforces safety, food safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices regulations.

·         Reports safety, food safety, and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:                                                     

·         High school diploma or GED;

·         Two years planner or scheduler experience;

·         Four years’ related maintenance experience.

Language Skills:                                                        

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.  Ability to write simple correspondence.  Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills:                                                               

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:                                                    

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.  Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills:     

·         Ability to proficiently use all applications in Microsoft Suites. 

·         Knowledge of EAM and Oracle is preferred.              

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:  

·         Mechanically inclined.

·         Knowledge of electrical principles.

·         Knowledge of weights and measures, such as calculating for calibration purposes.

·         Knowledge of standard maintenance parts & equipment.                                                                                                

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)