Manufacturing Maintenance Planner

Aquent is seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented professional to step into a pivotal role where your expertise will directly maximize team effectiveness and ensure the seamless functioning of vital operations. This is your chance to be at the heart of maintaining critical infrastructure, empowering teams with the resources and plans they need to succeed, and playing a key role in minimizing downtime and optimizing resource allocation. Your strategic planning and meticulous scheduling will be instrumental in keeping production running smoothly, directly influencing productivity and operational success.

About Our Partner

Aquent is partnering with a globally recognized manufacturing leader, celebrated for its innovative products and unwavering commitment to quality. This organization thrives on dedication and expertise, driving operational excellence and continuous improvement. Join a dynamic workplace that values precision, efficiency, and a proactive approach to maintaining world-class facilities, directly contributing to the seamless operation of critical infrastructure and the continuous flow of high-volume manufacturing.

The Opportunity

Are you ready to be the linchpin of operational efficiency in a high-volume manufacturing environment? We are searching for a dedicated professional who will be crucial in orchestrating the flow of maintenance operations. You will be the mastermind behind meticulous planning and scheduling, ensuring that our manufacturing facilities operate flawlessly. Your strategic approach will directly impact production uptime, resource optimization, and overall operational success, making you an indispensable part of a high-performing team.

What You’ll Do

• Review work orders for completeness, legibility, and job content, taking appropriate corrective action to ensure accuracy.
• Determine job scope and limit conditions through thorough field checks and consultation with both production and maintenance supervision.
• Review initial job priority and relative status to other work orders before entering them into the backlog file according to formal procedures.
• Analyze work for optimal methods and craft requirements, issuing sub-orders and maintaining total job coordination responsibility.
• Determine all required materials, supplies, equipment, tools, drawings, and engineered information necessary for successful job completion.
• Initiate procurement using bills of materials and verify their availability before scheduling jobs to prevent delays.
• Prepare detailed estimates using simplified maintenance standards, historical data, and experience-based approximations.
• Identify and secure all necessary technical information, simple non-engineered sketches, safety measures, utility requirements, and production clearances.
• Complete comprehensive planning packages for work orders and review them in detail with maintenance supervision.
• Determine approximate work order commencement dates from priority sequence and through consultation with both production and maintenance supervision.
• Establish the sequence and duration of all craft skills, including sub-order requirements, and prepare a tentative timetable that coordinates an entire work order.
• Prepare a detailed schedule that identifies daily activities, including allowances for emergency work, for all the next week’s work orders.
• Submit schedules to maintenance supervision and review in detail, ensuring alignment and feasibility.
• Review major changes in scope after starting a work order that will require planning changes beyond daily activity and revise the weekly schedule accordingly.
• Comply with formal procedures to close jobs after completion, ensuring proper documentation.
• Prepare and submit weekly performance reports as a measure of scheduling efficiency and effectiveness.
• Make independent decisions that minimize downtime and reduce maintenance spend through strategic scheduling of personnel, material, and contractor selection.
• Maintain necessary records and files that facilitate efficient planning and scheduling, consistent with basic functions.
• Monitor all documentation and formal reports to ensure their accuracy, timeliness, and utility, taking prescribed corrective action when needed.
• Provide requested information or submit special exception reports as required by maintenance supervision.
• Complete any other assignments consistent with the basic function or requested by the maintenance foreman.
• Review completed jobs on an exception basis, requesting a detailed audit when warranted to ensure quality and efficiency.
• Participate actively in cost reduction programs by analyzing maintenance methods and exploring alternative materials.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Maintenance Planner, preferably in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, enabling clear and effective interaction.
• Strong computer skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organization skills, coupled with the ability to communicate effectively and be self-directed.
• A strong work ethic that includes the ability to work 8–10-hour shifts while sitting, standing, bending, twisting, and lifting.
• A positive, adaptable, hard-working, and patient mindset, thriving in a dynamic environment.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• 2+ years technical school or equivalent practical training in a primary technical field relating to the area being served (e.g., mechanical, electrical, machining).

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