Maintenance Planner II

Post Consumer Brands•Battle Creek, MI

14h•Onsite

About The Position

The role of the Maintenance Planner II is to improve workforce productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of manpower, parts and materials, and equipment access. Planned maintenance activities include preventive and predictive maintenance routines, scheduled repairs and rebuilds, installations, and facilities maintenance. The position is also responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the data in the EAM system, including equipment master records, work orders, equipment repair histories, recurring Preventive Maintenance plans, and equipment Bills of Materials.

Requirements

Associates Degree (or equivalent work experience) in Technical or Manufacturing discipline required. BS / BA preferred.
Fundamental understanding of plant production and packaging processes.
Experience with MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Project.
Five or more years of engineering or maintenance experience in a plant environment preferred.
4 years using EAM/CMMS systems. Infor EAM experience is desirable.
Knowledge of maintenance management principles including but not limited to precision maintenance, preventive maintenance, shutdown and contingency planning; desire to work with maintenance disciplines as a team.
2-5 years’ experience as a maintenance planner or similar work.
Mechanical aptitude, strong analytical skills, and ability to apply learned concepts a must
Demonstrated follow-up skills
Demonstrated skills to address process opportunities and make sustainable improvements
Demonstrated commitment to meet deadlines
Demonstrated self-starter
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently without losing efficiency
Strong organizational skills
Must be self-driven, organized and be able to work in a fast-paced team environment.
Ability to influence broadly across location to drive results
Ability to manage moderate scope change initiatives
Proven written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work with multiple priorities and prioritize work.
Ability to teach and train new employees.
Responsible for accurate and timely completion of assigned work
Microsoft Office

Nice To Haves

Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician (CMRT) or similar preferred.
Infor EAM experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

Overall success of the planning function
Maintaining an accurate, up-to-date backlog status.
Ensuring the accuracy of the information on the new maintenance work orders
Computer data entry of the transaction to convert the request to a work order
Visiting the job site of all new maintenance work orders to confirm scope of work and develop a preliminary estimate of labor and material requirements and recording these decisions on the Planning Checklist
Deciding the level of planning applied to the work order
Collecting the information needed for the written job plan
Determining the actual sequence of work (i.e., job steps)
Identifying lockouts, tag-outs, and permits needed
Verifying that the job plan information is complete and accurate
Estimating the labor hours needed to perform the work, both rough and detailed as required
Determining parts, materials, and special tool requirements
Providing a cost estimate to include labor, materials and contract services
Initiates pick lists for Storeroom parts and materials
Writes purchase requisitions for direct purchase of outside parts and materials.
Assembling the complete and final “Job Package”
Communicating the information in the Job Package to the Maintenance Supervisor.
Ensuring that all information needed to support the planning process is complete, accurate and readily available to everyone
Reconciles the demands for work (man-hours needed) with available resources on the Weekly Schedule and Shutdown Schedule.
Identifies the need for “borrowed” manpower from other areas. Identifies work that can be performed by “helpers” or Contractors as an alternative.
Updating the EAM files and backlog to reflect the work completed.
Updating equipment history files with information that will improve the planning for future events.
Coordinating and exchanging common planning information with other Planners
Prepares the preliminary schedule for the Shutdown events. Facilitates the discussion during the various preliminary Shutdown meetings.
Publishes and distributes the final Shutdown Schedule prior to the event.
Coordinates definition of manpower requirements for Shutdown events.
Uses MS Project to produce a "timeline" chart for the Shutdown.
Prepares the information and statistics for the post-Shutdown Lessons Learned Meeting.
Site superuser for maintenance systems and processes.
Train and mentor maintenance techs, planners, and operations on using EAM.
Create Standard Work for planners to be used at site
Setup reoccurring PM and PdM at site
Create site reports and KPIs.
Participate in Project – Requirements, Maintainability, Equipment Reviews, Etc.
Works on projects of moderate complexity in a lead or support role.
Occasionally directs several aspects of the work gaining exposure to complex tasks within the job function.
Contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project.
Other duties as assigned.