Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for the planning work stream in the work management process. The Planner will work directly with the Plant Technical Team to scope and plan corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance, including the updating of corrective and preventative Job Plans with input based on feedback from the maintenance team. The planner will also be responsible to build and maintain equipment within the CMMS system and provide CMMS training and coaching to maintenance personnel.

Responsibilities include:

• Respond to facility work orders
• Ensures distribution of parts and materials to meet maintenance deadlines
• Inspects and monitors work areas, and examines tools and equipment
• Requisitions materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts
• Examines objects, systems, or facilities and analyzes information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs
• Utilizes metrics/data to evaluate and improve work processes
• Computes estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors
• Corrective, Predictive and Preventative maintenance job scoping planning and scheduling, including the estimation of labor, materials and cost of maintenance jobs
• Work Order closeout and CMMS updating based on feedback from the maintenance team
• Manage and Maintain the Plant CMMS as a Subject Matter Expert and Quality Assurance Officer
• Train and Coach Maintenance team members on CMMS usage
• Equipment and repair parts data entry and management
• Generate reports and track metrics on Maintenance Effectiveness
• Manage as required Maintenance projects that are not capital funded. Includes developing project scope, costing, timelines and implementation
• Interface with project teams on new capital projects as required, update CMMS system with removed or new installations and coordinate use of maintenance resources as required
• Fully participate in all Continuous Improvement and Safety efforts
• Leverage TPM Tools and Early Management Processes per the plant's master plan including Planned and Predictive Maintenance
• Participates in plant safety, health and environmental programs
• Understand and maintain focus on achieving the company financial goals
• Continually develop and implement ideas to reduce product-manufacturing cost, without exceeding budgeted dollar amounts
• Vendor Management: Source new vendors as required to support business needs
• Partner with the Production and support teams to develop work order priorities that are aligned with business needs

Qualifications:

• Associate's technical degree, or 3 year's planning experience required
• 2+ years of high-level maintenance technician experience
• Ability to fully leverage a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), such as Maintenance Connection
• Strong Microsoft Office skills
• Knowledge of principles involved in Preventative/Predictive Maintenance
• Knowledge of maintenance project implementation
• Strong knowledge of production and manufacturing equipment and processes