Maintenance Planner (Production) - 1st Shift - Altavista, VA Plant

Maintenance Planner

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You'll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor's degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Altavista, VA location in the Abbott Nutrition division. Our Nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands including Similac, PediaSure, Pedialyte, Ensure, and Glucerna to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

Altavista, VA, is one of Abbott's largest nutrition manufacturing plants equipped with advanced technology to ensure efficient production. Working here will make you feel like you're part of a family that works together to make a difference and help nourish millions of families around the world.

What You'll Work On

• Implement, monitor, and maintain the effectiveness of the documentation within the Plant work order maintenance systems, such as: Calibrations, Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, and Maintenance demand work orders.
• Conduct field checks on work orders before planning sequence of operations, materials priorities, equipment, and trades times to complete the job.
• Estimate time for work orders.
• Prepare schematics or rough sketches, material lists, and specific tools necessary for safety precautions and work to complete the documentation cycle for completions.
• Develop maintenance labor standards for various maintenance tasks.
• Requisition and order repair parts from vendors of non-stock parts or working with the stock room on key stock parts in low reserve. (To minimize line down time in the event a spare part is not on site.).
• Coordinate delivery with the vendor through the most expeditious route to receive the spare parts and to support the efforts to proper store within the Plant.
• Monitor, update, and maintain all spare parts between the Maintenance Department and the Stock Room (this excludes engineering capital project work, which will be supported within the Engineering Department).
• Monitor, update, and maintain all existing Plant maintenance systems, such as Preventive Maintenance, and PdM tasks and scheduled work orders.
• Sort, distribute, and review maintenance work orders for all three maintenance shifts to include scheduled and non-scheduled work.
• Timely communicate with the customers on requested work and equipment availability and coordinate with the appropriate shift required work that is to be performed and period available to complete work (depending on the scope of the work, the planner may be required to be on site to supervise the work as approved by the Maintenance Manager or Maintenance Supervisor.).
• During weekends, holidays, off shifts, and shutdown, the maintenance planner may be called upon to use planning skills to assist and coordinate work of outside contractors and/or plant technicians in plant projects, as approved by the Maintenance Manager or Maintenance Supervisor.
• Perform the duties of a Multi-Craft Technician on emergency jobs or low manpower situations.
• Check completed work to ensure conformance with workmanship, quality, and compliance.
• Act as a secondary, department liaison between maintenance to manufacturing departments, plant engineering, and/or division engineering on parts, plant maintenance involvement, and coordination, as approved by Maintenance Supervisor.
• Assist with maintenance departmental system documentation, updating prints, and (paper/electronic) files (i.e. electrical and mechanical schematics, building structure modifications, etc.) while supporting the Maintenance Department business requirements.
• Monitor and direct outside vendors, engineers, contractors, and all other groups performing work at the Plant to assure proper adherence to plant safety requirements, environmental regulations, GMP policies, and Engineering Standards.

You'll be accountable for meeting our compliance standards including FDA, OSHA and Abbott policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Associates degree in Technical Field; trade school coursework/experience or equivalent education or equivalent experience
• Must be able to understand and use both simple and complex instructions, read and write both simple and complex directions, understand routine and complex machine operation and read and operate gauges and instruments.
• Must possess good mathematical skills and possess a good understanding of technical level thinking in field of planning (i.e. electrical, mechanical, facilities).
• Good interpersonal skills, customer service orientation and feedback are important to this position.

The base pay for this position is $24.65 $49.25 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.