Maintenance Planner - Buffalo, NY Plant

POSITION OVERVIEW 

Buffalo is a manufacturing facility with approximately 400 employees, serving both the North America Retail and Foodservice business segments. This unique site comprises a Cereal Plant, a Flour Mill, and a Grain Elevator, boasting a rich history of over 120 years of performance and innovation.

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for leading and delivering significant improvements in the overall effectiveness, quality, and sustainability of the team’s asset care strategies. This role involves owning the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling process, ensuring the health and data accuracy of the CMMS for their assigned systems, and supporting the execution of capital work internalization through ordering parts & collaborating with project engineers to ensure a successful installation . Strong communication skills, process rigor, and robust technical knowledge in maintenance crafts, equipment design and function, manufacturing requirements, and maintenance processes are essential for developing effective maintenance strategies and driving process improvements.

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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES 

Safety

• Lead Food and Human Safety through Safety 0 leadership principles and standards.
• Foster a culture that reduces risk to our people and communities by increasing capability to identify and control critical risk. Specifically, responsible for leading cross-functional collaboration to integrate a standardized process for regular, documented equipment safety assessments, ensuring initial assessments during VSU/CQV and annual reviews as part of the Planned Maintenance (PM) process.
• Cultivate Food Safety Culture that is committed to manufacturing safe food that is compliant with policy and regulatory requirements.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

• Lead implementation of asset care strategies (90% of All A and B Assets) to deliver plant and department objectives (Budget, Reliability, Schedule etc.).
  • Communicate and educate effectively across the platform team and plant leaders about the impact and tradeoffs between performance, cost and asset health. Communicate spending history and prediction by work type and category to assist in budget management.
• Owns CMMS Data Accuracy
  • Owns Maximo standards and usage for the team.
  • Performs advanced data analysis to assist with problem solving efforts as well as proactively seek out issues to be resolved.
  • Maintain technical documentation for the team.

Support Execution of Capital Work Internalization

• Order necessary parts, tools, and equipment to complete capital projects executed by General Mills skilled labor.
• Partner with Project Engineers to ensure the successful installation, commissioning, and startup of new equipment.
• Serve as the early management point person for asset care strategies and Maximo setup, including IRM.

Process Leadership and Ownership

Driving System Utilization (DSU):

• Incorporate Asset Care Strategies and MP&S in the creation and the deployment (where applicable) of the platform improvement plan.

Daily Direction Setting (DDS):

• Participate in platform level Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly DDS and support the advancement of plans for the day when required.

Maintenance Foundational Systems (MP&S, LMS, Shutdown Planning, ER, Predictive)

• MP&S: Accountable for the development, implementation, training and execution of the Planning and Scheduling process.
  • Independently create high quality PMs and Job Plans with well documented labor, materials, tools and instructions needed for all incoming work.
  • Implement a work schedule that balances equipment needs, equipment availability, labor needs, and labor availability to deliver plant priorities.
  • Coordinate with the production planner and platform team to understand and optimize equipment and labor availability.
  • Create, lead and measure effectiveness of a work prioritization process inclusive of key stakeholders including operations, engineering, quality, safety, and other plant
• Partners with Maintenance Team Leader on asset care connections with Defect Handling (DH) and Breakdown Elimination (BE).
• Mentor and build capability in maintenance processes and standards.

Know your Operation, Data and Technology

• Increase technical knowledge and aptitude to assess all incoming work and independently develop work plans inclusive of labor, materials, tools and instructions.
• Secure capability to independently communicate the scope of work through written documentation and verbal instructions.
• Reliability expertise in how the various components fit and work together to make the equipment/system run, and capable of utilizing this skill set in documenting high quality job plans.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or 2 years in maintenance/technical role
• Demonstrated leadership and working in a highly collaborative environment
• Success in driving results through process and teamwork
• Proven success reducing losses and improving performance in a manufacturing setting
• Demonstrated technical capability and knowledge of unit operations and machinery (at least one production platform)
• Skilled at communicating between work groups, cross-functional resources, and other members of the plant
• Foundational knowledge of data analysis systems (examples: SAP, Maximo, Power BI) and decision making for results
• Broad experience in materials (metals, plastics, ), fabrication methods (welding, machining, etc.), engineering skills (reading prints, measuring), fastening methods, and lubrication principles
• Craft worker experience or very strong knowledge of craft duties and capabilities
• Knowledge of the skill level of different crafts
• Practical knowledge of Maximo and Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

• International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered. 
• Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas.

COMPANY OVERVIEW

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is $70100.00 - $105200.00 / Annually. At General Mills we strive for each employee's pay at any point in their career to reflect their experiences performance and skills for their current role. The salary range for this role represents the numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to, educations, skills, work experience, certifications, etc. As such, pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range. Beyond base salary, General Mills offers a competitive Total Rewards package focusing on your overall well-being. We are proud to offer a foundation of health benefits, retirement and financial wellbeing, time off programs, wellbeing support and perks. Benefits may vary by role, country, region, union status, and other employment status factors. You may also be eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. An incentive award, if any, depends on various factors, including, individual and organizational performance.

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