Maintenance Planner - Urgent Need

Position : Maintenance Planner

Location : Canaan, CT

Duration : 12 Months

Total Hours/week : 40.00

1st Shift

Client : Medical Devices Company

Job Category : Operations

Level of Experience : Mid-Level

Employment Type : Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens or GC Holders or GC EAD or OPT or EAD or CPT)

5 days 7:00am to 3:30 pm

Temp to Perm possibility

Job Description:

• The role will determine the labour and material resources as well as time required for each planned maintenance event (PM/CM/Outage/other planned activities).
• The role is responsible to develop and support an effective integrated planning and scheduling system with Production to allow an overview of all maintenance plans that may interact with the manufacturing unit’s equipment.
• This role will oversee the optimum utilization of the resources and spare parts with minimum impact in asset availability.
• They will ensure compliance with client quality systems, policies, procedures and best practices, and all local, state, federal and client safety regulations, policies and procedures.
• Regular, punctual attendance is an essential job function. Ability to read and write and converse in English.
• Willing and able to uphold client Values

Main activities and accountabilities include but are not limited to:

• Develop / Maintain a comprehensive equipment work and cost history database.
• Ensure highly planned utilization of technicians and on-time work completion utilizing lowest possible completion cost with minimum disruption to equipment operation.
• 100% PMs scheduled and completed on time.
• 100% compliance with all regulatory requirements.
• Support the development of optimized preventive maintenance plan, delivering key objectives, goals, and strategies for work planning, including safety, regulatory and budget requirements compliance
• Ensure that all maintenance plans (internal or by contractors) are compliant in terms of safety, regulatory and operational aligned with client requirements, ensure liaison with material management and reliability
• Validate the time, materials, resources and tools required to complete each job (PM/CM/Other activities) for the different sections.
• Manage all planned and scheduled maintenance activities and ensure elimination of de-lays due to waiting for information, materials, equipment, other skills and tools.
• Manage priorities and control maintenance status realization and propose actions for backlog reduction without risk for Operations.
• Monitor and control recorded hours, ratio between preventive and corrective maintenance, planning index, schedule alignment and backlog trends and maintenance costs to identify priorities, trigger revision of frequency, duration and or resources in the maintenance plans and potential improvement projects.
• Ensure up to date key process indicators and actions as well as relevant information to all stakeholders.
• Ensure that management is practiced, that effective performance review structures are in place and that measurement and review drives continuous improvement projects of the systems of their responsibility.
• Coordinate the work order generation based on maintenance plan and notifications/service requests, with Production planning to increase the planned work.
• Ensure that all work meets all the required technical and EH&S specifications.
• Other duties as required to support the needs of the business.

Minimum Requirement:

• High school diploma/GED required; AA/BS preferred
• Manufacturing automation experience, preferred
• Medical device experience preferred
• ERP systems experience preferred