Maintenance Planner Assistant

Triumph Foods, L.L.C.•St. Joseph, MO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for scheduling compliance, planning compliances, maintaining a professional relationship with operating and maintenance partners, and timely distribution of reports and metrics. The role serves as the principal contact and liaison between the maintenance department and all associated ancillary departments plantwide, including USDA, Food Safety, Operations, Sanitation, and various vendors. Key responsibilities include reviewing work requests for validity and accuracy, determining preliminary priorities in conjunction with maintenance management, identifying work orders requiring engineering design, and escalating potential production-interrupting issues observed during daily walk-throughs. The role also involves data entry into the maintenance software system for spare parts, drawings, and maintenance manuals, obtaining and organizing necessary information for craftspeople, and identifying and securing required parts and materials through the stores system. Additionally, the position is responsible for receiving outside contractor labor, ensuring scope understanding, documenting completed work, tracking maintenance downtime, following up on completed work assignments, and maintaining accurate metrics on planning and scheduling functions for reporting to plant engineers and maintenance superintendents. Professionalism at all times within the plant is expected.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent.
Mechanical background is a must.
Ability to communicate effectively with supervisors and co-workers.
Good written and oral skills.
Ability to be approachable and tactful.
Ability to apply mathematical applications to practical situations.
Ability to recognize equipment problems before they cause actual machine downtime.
Adequate craft knowledge and skill to accurately estimate labor hours and material requirements.
Ability to communicate what it will take to execute job assignments.
Good computer skills.
Demonstrated organizational and planning skills.
Knowledge and understanding of maintenance processes and proper use of the work order program and stores accessibility.
Must have a reputation that is respected by production, maintenance management, store personnel, and all other support groups associated with plant production.

Nice To Haves

A technical degree or extended experience in the field is desirable.

Responsibilities

Serve as the principal contact and liaison between the maintenance department and all associated ancillary departments plantwide (e.g., USDA, Food Safety, Operations, Sanitation, various vendors).
Review work requests from all areas of the plant to determine validity and accuracy, engaging with assigned maintenance upper management to set preliminary priorities.
Identify work orders that may require additional engineering design and review with the engineering team.
Escalate work opportunities observed during pre-op/USDA walk-throughs that could interrupt production.
Perform data entries into the maintenance software system, including spare parts, drawings, and maintenance manuals.
Obtain and organize all information required for the crafts to perform the work (e.g., drawings, vendor manuals, supplemental instructional materials).
Identify and secure all parts and materials required to complete the job through the stores system, providing a bill of materials if possible.
Work closely and professionally with the Stores Manager to manage spare parts usage and ensure parts are used for the specific job.
Receive and manage outside contractor labor, ensuring scope is understood, following up on completed work, documenting deficiencies, and signing off.
Track maintenance downtime from operational reports to establish a trending mechanism.
Follow up with supervisors and leads to ensure completed work assignments are turned in with improvement comments in a timely fashion.
Keep accurate metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and provide timely reports to the Plant Engineer/Maintenance Superintendents.
Remain professional at all times while in the plant.