Maintenance Planner, Dec

About the role

The Maintenance Planner contributes to a high level of productivity and efficiency within the maintenance department by providing written job plans for work originating from requests, preventative plans, and predictive monitoring. Plans will include details such as proper procedures as well as labor, time, parts, tools, access, and permitting required. Works closely with Operations, Engineers, Quality and other internal customers to ensure that detailed maintenance activity schedules are met.

Responsibilities

• Daily management to maintain 2-4 week complete ‘ready’ back log that is in alignment with production needs.
• Ensure compliance with all safety policies and procedures.
• Plan maintenance jobs for assigned plant areas including all details needed to schedule and execute each job - procedures, labor, time, parts, tools, access, permitting, etc.
• Partner closely with maintenance supervisors for assigned areas each day to maintain proper priority for planning workflow.
• Incorporate feedback on completed planned jobs from maintenance supervisors, reliability team, mechanics, maintenance storage, operations, and skilled crafts to create a continuous improvement loop for job plans and planning procedures.
• Provide daily communications with a wide range of plant personnel.
• Provide labor and costs estimates.

Qualifications

• Maintain advance planning visibility: 1 week out: 100% planned; 2 weeks out: 50% planned.
• Identify and verify all required resources for non-breakdown work, including: Materials, Specialty tools, Shared and specialty services.
• Define job scope, estimate labor hours, and determine job duration.
• Kit all required parts for the following week and ensure they are staged in designated drop zones prior to execution.
• Identify scaffold requirements at least one week in advance.
• Coordinate with the scaffold foreman to ensure scaffolds are installed and ready before the job start date.

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering or Technology related field preferred, with five - eight years of related professional experience in a heavy industrial environment working with mechanical maintenance or engineering teams.
• Experience using CMMS for maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution.
• Self-motivated, diligent, detail oriented, and possess very strong time management discipline.
• Strong writing skills; must be able to communicate instructions and procedures clearly to skilled crafts.
• Good interpersonal skills and willingness to accept and act upon feedback from others.
• Basic computer proficiency including Microsoft Office and Outlook e-mail.
• Prior maintenance planning experience a must.
• Familiarity with SAP maintenance system is preferred but not required.

Benefits

Benefits include: Healthcare/Medical insurance, 401 K matching and non-contingent matching plans, 15 days leave.

Pay

The annual pay range estimated for this position is $78,768.80 - $98,461.00 and is bonus eligible.

Schedule

Full-time position.