Maintenance Planner (CRE)

Norsk Hydro ASA•Cressona, PA

52d•Onsite

About The Position

A Maintenance Planner is responsible for effectively planning and scheduling maintenance functions for crews in selected areas of the plant. Maintaining records of all plant equipment, providing cost-effective reliability maintenance, monitoring and forecasting the maintenance budget, maintaining working relationships between Production and Maintenance departments and assisting warehouse coordinator in maintaining critical spare parts inventories. This position reports to the Reliability Engineer.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
10+ years of experience in an extrusion facility or 5+ years of maintenance experience.

Nice To Haves

High degree of knowledge of extrusion equipment and processes.
A high degree of technical understanding and ability across a broad spectrum of technical areas (i.e. electrical, mechanical, hydraulics, pneumatics, etc.).
Use of Microsoft Office.
Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and manuals.

Responsibilities

Applies predictive, proactive and preventative measures to evaluate and monitor equipment.
Effectively schedules available manning (workhours) on a daily and weekly basis.
Analyzes and estimates cost, manning, logistics of overhauls, major projects and any of the planned work.
Maximizes process capacity by interfacing with Drafting, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality Control, Purchasing, Warehousing and Operations.
Works jointly with plant reliability leader in reliability-based maintenance techniques for continuously improved equipment performance, PM, PDM and maximized cost savings.
Handles work order processing (defines work scope, estimates job, workhours, purchases parts, schedules, initiates, follows up and closes).
Maintains equipment history utilizing the CMMS and other equipment records such as drawing and files.