Senior Maintenance Planner

Description:

• The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning and scheduling maintenance and calibration work for all Production, Engineering, and Facilities equipment and instrumentation at a Radio-Biopharmaceutical processing site.

• CMMS Blue Mountain expertise in creating equipment records, developing maintenance work plans and scheduling work to coincide with the production schedule. This will include verification of assets, workplans, and calibrations from new equipment onsite in addition to existing equipment.

• Provides technical support for Maintenance resources and Reliability Maintenance teams via KPI and non-conformance patterns reporting.

• Provides regular statistical reporting to the management team and stake holders showing quantified evidence of the productive use of the work force

• Accountable for contracted vendor management of site calibration and PM activities for Production, Engineering and Facilities equipment. This includes, but not limited to:

  • New vendor additions to the Approved Suppliers List working with Suppler Quality

  • Scheduling vendor activity by requesting Quotations for review, confirming scope, and initiating the PO process working with Site Maintenance Lead and Procurement

  • Scheduling and Managing vendors onsite with Maintenance and Facilities support through execution.

  • Sending equipment out for off-site calibrations and ensuring timely return to maintain CMMS schedule.

  • Assuring onsite vendors are properly registered with security before arrival and receive any needed training/orientation while onsite before work begins

  • Arranges work areas for vendors onsite as needed with Maintenance and Facilities teams

• Assumes responsibility for spare parts management, PM kitting, ordering, and receipt within budgeted plan.

• Assumes accountability for special projects as assigned

• Accountable for deployment and sustainability of site maintenance programs.

• Updates SOP's as needed to enhance functionality within the local maintenance processes and conformance with global maintenance processes.

• Ensures compliance with all regulations, people safety, and product quality.

• Ensures adequate levels of technical expertise to maintain an effective operation.

• Participates in the business planning and budgeting processes.

• Develops short and long-term cost containment/reduction strategies.

• Effectively works with plant production scheduling, operations, and other contracted services to achieve business goals.

• Works with Supervisors to coordinate, communicate, and interprets policies for technicians to ensure that maintenance work is thoroughly planned, scheduled, scoped, estimated, and are properly staffed and implemented in accordance to plan.

• Maintains an understanding of the department's strengths, weaknesses, and resources, identifying potential organizational problems and opportunities.

• Communicate and reinforce roles and responsibilities of the team and how they support Company/Plant/Department strategies.

• Analyzes work orders by duration, urgency, skill set, location, complexity, and available manpower; and assist operations teams by issuing work orders in a sequential flow to individual technicians or work teams.

• Detailed understanding of the Maintenance Plans and ability to execute WO's if needed

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant area with 4 years' experience in a relevant manufacturing environment or 8 years of relevant Maintenance Planning experience in lieu of degree.

• Broad exposure to several technical disciplines: Electrical, Mechanical, and Pneumatic controls, aseptic environmental controls, Laminar air flow, pressure cascades and monitoring, aseptic environmental tooling and materials used such as lubricants, sanitization agents, cleaning products

• Maintenance experience in a technical capacity with biopharmaceutical processing equipment including: Production Isolators and ancillary systems, synthesis modules, vial dispensing equipment, sterility isolators, EMS systems, HEPA filtration, Viable and Non-viable particle counters, qualified utilities

• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and other applicable computer software.

• Expertise with CMMS Maintenance and Materials Management functionality.

• Experience in developing maintenance plans for both preventive and predictive maintenance.

• Experience in Reliability Centered Maintenance Techniques and application to manufacturing equipment.

• Extensive experience in Root Cause Failure Analysis techniques and application.

• Experience participating in the budget process (creation and delivery).

• Preferred experience with SAP S4HANA

• Preferred experience with Power BI

• Preferred experience with e-Crib spares management

Benefits:

Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.

Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.

Vision Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first enrollment date that is at least 30 days after employment begins. Enrollment dates are each January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st.

Technical Certification Bonus: Synectics is pleased to award its employees a bonus of up to $500 for an approved professional certification. In determining the bonus amount, Synectics will consider the cost of the test(s) for any certification relating to your current position, achieved during your employment with us. Only one Certification Bonus per calendar year may be awarded per employee. Only current, active employees will be eligible to receive this bonus. It will be awarded 90 days after the Synectics office has received documentation confirming the successful completion of the certification.

Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.