Maintenance Planner

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages a sufficient backlog of planned routine and shutdown work for all electrical and instrumentation areas of the plant.
• Captures and utilizes approved scheduling tools and methodologies to schedule all non-emergency Maintenance Department work.
• Works with Operations department leadership to develop, maintain, and utilize for scheduling purposes a top-ten list of approved work orders.
• Coordinates scheduling efforts with departmental leadership to minimize work scheduling conflicts.
• Facilitates scheduled completion of repair work per agreed upon job priorities.
• Champions the maintenance work flow process and works with the Maintenance Manager to address issues/failures of the work process as they occur.
• Oversees the management of work request and work order backlog.
• Ensures job planning is performed in accordance with company guidelines, building “job packages” utilizing new or archived job plans.
• Utilizes accepted project management methodologies to develop outage schedules; coordinating activities of the outage planning team.
• Develops and reports project critical path in regards to outages being scheduled.
• Works with Procurement group to develop job scope for contracted services and leads the effort to identify and award contract work.
• Coordinates with all departments to identify proper job scope for all outage work and coordinates scope change management to minimize unforeseen scope creep.
• Leads lessons learned process and assists in the improvement of standardized outage processes company-wide.
• Tracks and reports maintenance and reliability metrics, expenditures, and performance to budget for maintenance department.
• Planner materials, resources and labor and develop detailed schedules for major maintenance initiatives.
• Ensures sufficient amount of work is planned to satisfy production needs as well as the available man-hour capacity.
• Discusses work orders with others as appropriate to ensure understanding of scope of work required, determining if work is capital or expense.
• Continually reviews backlog list to eliminate duplicate orders, optimize utilization of resources and ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Creates and uses job plans lists for repetitive jobs.
• Creates and uses BOM's where appropriate.
• Reviews and audits executed plans to improve efficiency and effectiveness of work order planning process.
• Participates in bidding process and requisitioning for third party services.
• Makes sure work activities are performed in a safe and efficient manner.
• Maintains compliance with company plant safety rules and lockout/tagout procedures.
• Maintains compliance with appropriate federal, State and local environmental regulations, reports and notifies appropriate plant personnel of any deviations per established standards.
• Performs incident investigations as required, including reporting incidents to appropriate personnel, completing required documentation, recommending and implementing corrective actions, and communicating findings as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; 5-7 years related experience in a heavy industrial environment with at least 3 years in a planning/scheduling capacity. Previous supervisory or contract management experience preferred.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) required, Maximo preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of Microsoft Project experience.
• Knowledge of power distribution and instrumentation and controls (I&C).
• Knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, welding, motor controls, conveyor systems, machine shop practices, and other industrial maintenance skills.
• Ability to read schematics and blue prints.

Pay

$88,000.00 - $113,557.50