Bel, makers of iconic brands including Babybel, The Laughing Cow, Boursin, and GoGo Squeez is a growing global company that values your contributions, strives to create a sense of belonging for everyone and offers career growth and development opportunities, as well as competitive total compensation and meaningful well-being benefits from day one.

For All, For Good, our company signature, reflects Bel’s commitment to sustainability and healthier and responsible food for all.

The company has headquarters in Chicago (Bel Brands USA) and New York City (GoGo Squeez) and operates 5 manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI;

Leitchfield, KY; Brookings, SD; Traverse City, MI; and Nampa, ID.

Job Summary :

A Planner / Maintenance Scheduler is responsible to take a maintenance plan and bring together all the resources needed to complete it.

The Planner / Scheduler role involves assembling and coordinating the information, people, materials, equipment, along with all the other necessary resources to get the job done and done right safely the first time.

Job Responsibilities & Tasks :

• Develop and update quality job plans to efficiently perform routine planned maintenance work.
• Planning will include detailed scope development, identification and ordering of materials, determining detailed job steps, manpower and skill requirements, work execution Scheduling sequence, and specifying precision maintenance details.
• Works closely with Reliability Engineering to maximize equipment availability through the creation and archiving of effective job plans.
• Work in collaboration with Maintenance Technicians, Process Engineers, Maintenance and Production Supervisors, Supply Chain, and Reliability Resources to effectively execute the routine planned maintenance work process and improve equipment reliability.
• Provide troubleshooting support to identify Failure Modes and develop repair solutions for equipment and systems failures.
• Provide technical expertise and support for the Planning and Scheduling of Maintenance activities while ensuring safe operations, regulatory compliance and equipment availability related to manufacturing equipment and systems.
• Plans all work ensuring equipment availability and that Work Orders have Materials, Labor, Special Tools, Safety Permits defined.
• Identify required materials from either stores or external suppliers based on detailed job plans
• Assure that Work Orders selected by the gatekeeper have proper status codes and that parts, materials, and external resources, if required, are available.
• Ensure all company policies and safety tools are either built in to Work Orders or are being used to complete Work Orders.
• Identifies and obtains materials and equipment required to execute requested work.
• Assist Maintenance and Production with detailed resource Planning, including people, plant and materials.
• Provide direction on min / max levels.
• Participate in quarterly Parts Room inventory.
• Ability to work full time at the plant site.
• Plan, organize and schedule workflow including Corrective, Preventive, and Predictive Maintenance work, project support and normal operations tasks to meet priority demands, and long and short-term projects.
• Follow-up, problem-solve, trouble-shoot processes, communicating scheduling information and status of maintenance work issues with customers and staff.
• Determine work plans based upon site-wide field trips, priority, available work force, and other criteria, review plans and schedules with associated management.
• Monitor, track, review, and analyze open Work Orders and Work Order aging for assigned maintenance groups.
• Enter, analyze, and extract data using the CMMS.

Key Performance Indicator (KPI) :

25% of A Ranked Equipment has Job Plans

25% of A Ranked Equipment PMs tasks are based off Failure Modes

Target 250 hours of Labor hours of work in Maintenance Back Log

85% of completed Planned work is completed withing 10% of the scheduled time (Planning Compliance)

Position Requirements :

EDUCATION

Combination of education and experience will be considered

EXPERIENCE

• 3 years of experience in Maintenance within a manufacturing environment
• Food or pharmaceutical industry manufacturing experience is strongly preferred

SKILLS

• Ability to understand technical processes and automated mechanical equipment.
• Strong background in Preventative Maintenance and repair of industrial manufacturing equipment.
• Ability to demonstrate logic and reason to identify problems and offer solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to meet operational goals while also fostering a positive work environment.
• Demonstrated commitment to employee safety and food safety.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, leadership, training and coaching skills.
• Proficient in the use of Corim, Microsoft Office applications MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project (or similar).

Bel Brands is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Bel Brands prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also Bel Brand’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Last updated : 2024-05-12