Sr Maintenance Planner

About the Company

Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) is a leading global provider of essential minerals focused on safely delivering where and when it matters to help solve nature’s challenges for customers and communities. The company’s salt products help keep roadways safe during winter weather and are used in numerous other consumer, industrial, chemical, and agricultural applications. Its plant nutrition products help improve the quality and yield of crops while supporting sustainable agriculture. Compass Minerals operates 11 production and packaging facilities with more than 1,800 employees throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and manages equipment master data and the work order system.
• Organizes all equipment technical information for ease of accessibility in the CMMS and for data protection in the archival system (PDM Vault).
• Creates and maintains Equipment Parts Lists (EPL) for all equipment.
• Collaborates with Reliability Engineering on the development of operating context-specific PM’s & PdM’s.
• Converts Work Requests to Work Orders, creates Work Orders, and ensures WO coding is accurate and the status is up-to-date.
• Identifies all WOs requiring short and long-duration downtime.
• Manages the work order backlog to ensure work progresses through the planning process in a timely manner and in accordance with the PM system master schedule.
• Work Planning:
  • Develops a sequenced set of work instructions for all WOs where Planning can add value.
  • Lists all required permits and identifies any special safety work instructions.
  • Identifies all required parts, supplies, tools, and equipment, and provides specifications to assist purchasing in meeting expectations.
  • Maintains 3 to 5 weeks of ready backlog.
  • Manages the WO feedback process to drive job plan continuous improvement in safety instructions, work instructions, and other identified maintenance resources required to execute the job.
  • Generates follow-up work orders identified in the WO feedback process, including condition-based WOs and other related observations from technicians in the field.
• Resource Management:
  • Monitors, justifies, and categorizes maintenance stores inventory to ensure parts remain consistent with equipment modifications. Submits Add-To-Inventory forms as necessary.
  • Facilitates ease of part identification by creating accurate Equipment Parts Lists (EPLs) for all equipment and removes obsolete parts from both the EPL and the MRO Warehouse.
  • Coordinates with the warehouse to kit and stage identified parts and supplies.
  • Requisitions parts, supplies, and equipment to ensure availability coincides with work schedules.
  • Assists in the expedition of critical parts for planned work and at critical times to support breakdown activities.
  • Provides notification to supervision when repairable parts must be tagged and returned to the warehouse.
  • Ensures proper accounts are identified on all WOs.
• Develops and maintains weekly, shutdown, and long-range schedules.
• Ensures that weekly schedules comply with the PM and PdM master schedule.
• Coordinates maintenance schedules with production schedules to ensure equipment health and capacity safely support long-term production requirements.
• Conducts related planning meetings.
• Completes/closes work orders and captures pertinent information as needed.
• Turnaround Scheduling/Critical Path Management:
  • Manages the short and long-duration downtime ready backlog for the respective area of responsibility.
  • Ensures all downtime-required WOs are fully planned and coordinated in preparation for turnaround events.
  • Generates capital requests for downtime-related WOs.
  • Identifies all resources required for effective turnaround execution.
  • Provides turnaround cost management, including estimate vs. actual comparison.
  • Organizes all turnaround work in a Gantt Chart format outlining the work critical path and resource allocation requirements.
  • Evaluates turnaround schedule duration to optimize downtime vs. resource costs decision-making.
• Long Range Planning:
  • Manages the Major Maintenance Forecast to outline equipment repair intervals and identify future MOB capital requirements.
  • Develops the scope of work for capital repairs and submits Capital Authorization Requests (CARs) in a timely manner.
  • Makes recommendations to project engineering for capital modifications.
  • Assists maintenance management in developing and monitoring the expense budget.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Journeyman license or equivalent experience in Electrical and/or Mechanical trades.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 7-10 years’ experience in electrical and/or mechanical trades.
• Maintenance supervisory or equivalent experience required.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.