What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Planner position at Radius Recycling?
This position will report to the EAM Manager/Maintenance Manager, the planner is an essential position within any maintenance organization and directly affects the utilization of your maintenance labor, Craft utilization and overall equipment availability. Planning serves the entire team by accurately planning complex jobs, assuring required parts are available and properly estimating labor hours required. Planner will establish planning meeting with production to ensure scheduling can be agreed upon and conducted without interruption in the work assignments
Salary Range: $90,000 - $120,000 Annually
Specific Responsibilities:
- Creates Safe work plans/pre job safety analysis for all tasks.
- Work with Warehouse Supervisor to attain and stage parts for jobs prior to job start date.
- Utilize outside vendors when required to complete tasks.
- Approves Work Request and plans as priority dictates.
- Gathers relevant technical documentation such as drawings, schematics, specifications, spare parts lists from equipment histories, OEM manuals and the Knowledgebase system. Verifies the availability of parts prior to scheduling the job. Arrange for special tools and auxiliary equipment when required.
- Plans work in Planning Status by accurately assigning estimated hours and material.
- Maintains an organized and prioritized work order backlog to determine the next highest priority jobs to be planned next and maintains the Ready Backlog.
- Assures required parts to complete the W/O are on hand at time of work order starting.
- Manages all work orders in the Ready status for readiness for Scheduler.
- Enters requisitions for parts that are not on hand for active W/Os.
- Expedite parts as needed for equipment downtime emergencies.
- Creates new PM procedures as required for input in CMMS system.
- Verifies PM changes or PM additions are updated and active in CMMS for planning.
- Adds items to the equipment Bill of Materials as discovered.
- Conducts weekly planning meetings with Production to determine work order priorities, communicate work order status and alter planned maintenance activities if necessary.
- Evaluates non-emergency work requests, develops scope of work, and inspects job location to determine job requirements.
- Estimates labor hours, skillsets, parts, materials, equipment, and special tools required to complete proactive jobs in a safe and efficient manner.
Required Skills:
- Candidate for this role should have a maintenance background and knowledge understanding maintenance systems, like eAM Oracle, SAP and/or Infor.
- Combined experience of hands-on maintenance & maintenance planning/scheduling.
- Proficient with many CMMS systems, Oracle eAM, SAP, and software like Excel, Word, MS Office, Outlook and have excellent technical writing skills.
- Improves work order planning and scheduling effectiveness through the review process and use of the maintenance metrics.
Qualifications:
- 1-3 years of maintenance scheduling / planning experience and/or 5 – 10 years as a machine repair technician, or equivalent combination of both.
- Familiar with metals recycling manufacturing environment.
- Electrical/mechanical aptitude.
- Experience in CMMS systems like Oracle eAM, Sap, MP7, Maximo and or Infor.
- Proficiency with computers, and applications including Microsoft Office.
- Excellent verbal communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to build and maintain positive, professional relationships.
- Desire to develop leadership attributes.
- Experience in job plan development, job scheduling, and work execution.
- Project management and capital project experience preferred.
PLEASE NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required.
All U.S. applicants must be 18 years of age or older and all Canada applicants must be 16 years of age or older.
Radius Recycling participates in e-verify for all U.S. new hires.
An offer of U.S. employment by Radius Recycling or any of its subsidiaries is contingent on the satisfactory completion of a post-offer drug screen and background check.
All new hires must review and sign an Arbitration Agreement. This applies to all U.S. non-union employees.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Radius Recycling does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, marital status, disability status, national origin or ancestry, veteran status, age, prior industrial injury, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other protected status under local, state or federal law.
Salary : $90,000 - $120,000