Maintenance Planner

Summary

The maintenance planner is responsible for work order management via the CMMS system, developing detailed maintenance job plans, identifying tools, resources and materials required for all planned maintenance activities and ensuring safety protocols are incorporated into all plans. The position is instrumental in optimizing equipment reliability, minimizing downtime, and contributing to overall plant safety and productivity through diligent planning and execution.

Essential Duties

• Promotes a safe and clean work environment where safety is the highest priority and embedded in our culture.
• Ensure that all scheduled work incorporates required safety procedures, pre-job safety assessments, and adherence to company and regulatory standards within the job plan.
• Oversee and uphold the planning component of the overall workflow process, including work identification, detailed planning, coordination of planned work, auditing of plan effectiveness, and identifying opportunities for enhancement.
• Develop detailed job plans for all maintenance activities, ensuring safety procedures, labor requirements, materials, tools, work procedures and all necessary information to successfully perform maintenance work is encompassed.
• Develops and Maintains a Job Plan library within the CMMS to be used for future work.
• Acts as a critical link between the site's preventive and predictive maintenance programs, ensuring that all equipment is maintained according to identified timelines. Translates information from PM and PdM findings into actionable repair plans.
• Manage and maintain back log of work orders, ensuring prioritization and incorporation into team schedule for completion. Facilitates routine backlog review and planning prioritization meetings with stakeholders in Maintenance and Operations, Safety, Quality, and Engineering departments.
• Identify and generate purchase requests for non-stocked parts and tools required for the planned maintenance activities.
• Serve as primary liaison for coordination with outside contractors concerning the scope and requirements of planned maintenance activities, ensuring compliance with site policies.
• Process, review, investigate and process maintenance work orders from initiation to a Ready to Schedule or Awaiting Materials status, utilizing the CMMS system.
• Act as a primary user of the CMMS system to ensure development and upkeep of preventive/predictive maintenance plans, detailed job plans, work frequencies and assess data.
• Partner with the maintenance, production and engineering departments regarding planned maintenance activities and resource requisites.
• Identifying materials for planned maintenance work and identifying or creating new items numbers as necessary
• Contribute to the planning aspects of projects, including analysis, detailed design input (from a maintainability and planning standpoint), support capital request preparation, and cost estimation for planned maintenance tasks within projects
• Maintenance Scheduling responsibilities dependent on plant size
• Perform other job duties as assigned
  
  
  

We Require

• High School diploma or GED required
• 5+ years demonstrated industrial manufacturing experience, preferably in a continuous manufacturing process.
• 3+ years experience within a maintenance department using maintenance work order systems
  
  
  

We Also Value

• Associates or technical degree or certification in a related field
• Knowledge of critical path analysis
• Ability to interpret blueprints, drawings and technical manuals
• Knowledge of electrical and mechanical processes and industrial equipment
• Knowledge of maintenance planning principles, work coordination and practices
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite.
  
  
  

General Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work as a team player
• Able to influence and lead others over whom he/she has no direct authority.
• Willing to drive for change in the interest of continuous improvement. Accepting the ideas and methods of others.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work under limited supervision make independent judgement and decisions as necessary.
• Excellent organization skills.
  
  
  

Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• A working knowledge of CMMS/Project Management software.
• Understanding of how maintenance works; time, materials, people, tools, etc.
• Intermediate proficiency in G suite
• Intermediate proficiency using root cause analysis to troubleshoot and solve problems
• Intermediate proficiency in debugging and troubleshooting machine systems
• Advanced proficiency in how to maintain pneumatic and hydraulic systems
• Knowledge of variable frequency drives and AC & DC drives
• Knowledge of rotating equipment, machine design, bearings and lubrication
• Ability to read blueprints, schematics, shop drawings, and sketches
• Familiar with standard manufacturing concepts, practices, and procedure
• Demonstrated experience developing, prioritizing and executing plans to deliver results and achieve operating objectives.
• Knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies (vibration, oil analysis, I/R thermography)