MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE

Overview

• Position Type: Full-Time
• Job Shift: Monday – Friday
• Education Level: High School Diploma / or Equivalent
• Travel Percentage: Negligible
• Category: Installation – Maint – Repair

Description

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for improving work force productivity and quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of maintenance resources, parts, materials, and equipment access. The role involves developing detailed job plans with accurate hours for maintenance activities in the production facility to ensure equipment reliability and operational efficiency.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES & FUNCTIONS include the following, others may be assigned.

Develop detailed job plans for preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.

Coordinate with production, safety, and other departments to plan maintenance activities around operational needs.

Determine then procure when scheduled all the necessary resources, including number of personnel and crafts needed, tools, and materials, for each job.

Maintain accurate records of maintenance activities, including work orders, job plans, and maintenance history.

Reviews parts inventory and maintains the appropriate level of inventory via the requisitioning process.

Identify opportunities to improve maintenance processes, equipment reliability, and cost efficiency.

Collaborate with engineering and operations teams on reliability and improvement projects.

Scopes the job by determining materials and manpower needed for completion. Creates, reviews, and modifies mechanical standard job plans by using diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, manufacturer’s instruction and engineering specifications. Estimates total cost of each work order.

Key user of the Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
– Opens, closes and manages work orders (excluding emergency work orders)
– Manages the maintenance backlogs
– Creates and publishes reports and KPI’s as required and/or requested

Consults with Safety or Engineering or Maintenance if unfamiliar or specialized advice is needed.

Prepares work orders for preventive maintenance jobs and blanket work orders for selected repetitive jobs. Triggers orders in accordance with the established frequency.

Reviews completed work orders for accuracy. Evaluates work performed to ensure work has been completed as requested and maintains historical maintenance records.

Uses feedback from completed job plans that have discrepancies identified from the original job package and corrects them by any means needed within the company rules.

Utilize preventive maintenance technology and contractors to reduce unscheduled overtime.

Preschedules PM and corrective work by priority and time-based strategy.

Provides back-up support to other planners when they are off site for planning activities and work reporting.

Provide training and guidance to maintenance personnel on job planning and best practices.

Support the development of maintenance staff by sharing technical knowledge and expertise.

Understands and follows all organizational policies, procedures and rules, ensuring that all laws are obeyed, that include personal safety and environmental protection.

Must be able to work more than eight hours per day or forty hours per week on any shift or travel as needed. On call as required.

Consistently demonstrates prompt, regular and reliable attendance.

Communicates development and career goals to immediate supervisor and takes ownership of personal development plan.

Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES & FUNCTIONS
This is a non-supervisory position.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS
Minimum
• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent
• Experience: 3 years’ experience in maintenance planning position.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Valid driving license

Preferred
• Education: Associate’s degree in maintenance technology
• Experience: Planning experience in a chemical manufacturing facility; 3+ years’ experience in SAP
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Certified Professional Maintenance Planner (CPMM) or equivalent

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Reading/comprehension, speaking and writing at required education equivalency level. Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business correspondence, technical/product information, policies/procedures or government regulations. Ability to complete written forms and write routine to complex procedures, reports and correspondence. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions in a group or individual setting.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percentage.

COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint and other Office 365 applications.
Proficiency in relevant SAP and/or CMMS modules preferred

COMPLEXITY
The work includes varied duties requiring several different craft skills but with related maintenance and plant processes and methods be applied to a broad range of activities and/or substantial depth of analysis within the mechanical area and mechanical planning. The work decisions that are made include areas of job planning, by interpreting plant procedures, guidelines and evaluating the results. This position involves generating new ideas or recommendations for process improvements.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work requires both sedentary and physical exertion to include sitting; walking; standing; bending; carrying/lifting of light and heavy items (up to 50lbs). Work routinely requires employee to traverse up and down both stairs and ladders. Work routinely requires speaking and hearing (expression or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words and perceiving sounds by ear).

WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment requires normal safety precautions typical of industrial/manufacturing environments. Requires use of safe work practices with equipment, avoidance of trips and falls, and observance of fire regulations. Manufacturing and warehousing areas are not climate controlled, and environment includes work that requires special safety precautions such as working with irritant chemicals, around moving parts, carts or machines. Employees will be required to use protective clothing or gear such as masks, gowns, coats, safety shoes, boots, goggles, gloves, safety glasses or shields.