Manufacturing Maintenance Planner

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Scheduling: Develop and maintain a comprehensive maintenance schedule for production equipment, machinery, and facilities.
• Prioritize maintenance tasks based on urgency, criticality, and production requirements.
• Ensure the schedule balances with the hours available and each technician is fully loaded with work.
• Communicate with the production liaison to ensure equipment availability prior to scheduling and arrange equipment access for agreed upon jobs.
• Maintain a backlog of work orders awaiting scheduling.
• Review work requests and work orders and ensure scope is clearly stated.
• Create detailed work orders for maintenance tasks, including descriptions, steps, required materials, and estimated time.
• Estimate the cost for each work order including labor, material, and total cost.
• Document completed work, update maintenance logs, and track equipment history.
• Develops a file of standard work orders (plans) for regularly recurring repair jobs, based on historical experience, to simplify the planning process.
• Monitor spare parts inventory levels and coordinate reordering as needed.
• Collaborate with procurement and supply chain teams to ensure timely availability of critical spare parts.
• Optimize inventory costs while ensuring minimal downtime due to part shortages.
• Ensures all needed materials and special tools are available and pre-kitted for efficient execution of each job.
• Facilitates a weekly maintenance planning coordination meeting.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent; an associate or bachelor's degree in engineering or related field is preferred.
• 2+ years proven experience as a maintenance planner or scheduler, and maintenance supervision experience in a manufacturing environment is a plus.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS- FIIX, Maximo, EAM, PMC2000, SAP) and Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, equipment, and maintenance best practices.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Training in Basic Electrical, Basic PLC, Refrigeration level 1.