Maintenance Planner Scheduler

Thiele Kaolin Company • Sandersville, GA

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About The Position

Thiele Kaolin Company, a leading provider of tailored mineral solutions, is currently recruiting for a Maintenance Planner Scheduler III. This position is located in Wrens, Georgia.

Requirements

• Two- or four-year degree from an accredited school or technical college and three years' experience in the maintenance field, or five years of experience in the maintenance field
• Sound knowledge of maintenance and workflow processes
• Knowledge of equipment at plant and mine
• Ability to estimate time to complete jobs
• Ability to ensure safety policies are followed
• Ability to read and interpret operation, installation, and maintenance manuals, etc.
• Ability to complete site-specific training for contractors, analyze data and make decisions
• Strong communication and organization skills
• Logical thinker, detail oriented, leadership skills, proactive, scheduling & project management skills
• Ability to work unsupervised and multitask
• Proficient in Maximo and Excel
• Continuous Improvement

Responsibilities

• Takes calls directly for Production maintenance needs, notifies proper Foreman, and creates workorder as required
• Receives work request to be planned from the Maintenance or Electrical Foremen. The Planner will perform a job analysis for the known work to be done, and makes any additional sketches, diagrams, etc., necessary to clarify the intent of the work order.
• Reviews and screens work orders to see that they have been properly filled out, ensuring work scope is clearly described, priority and requested completion date are realistic, charge numbers and other coding are complete and accurate, and authorization is proper and obtained.
• Discusses the details with the originating department as appropriate
• Follows up to ensure the completed schedules, work orders, and Safety Maintenance requests are returned at the proper time
• Performs other tasks and special assignments as requested by the Assistant Operations Manager or their designee
• Checks to make sure instructions were left to have scheduled equipment down for shop to work on.
• Checks daily in Wonderware program to verify that equipment is down, and then check with foreman to make sure that there have not been any calls from production with other problems as applicable.

Benefits

• Medical and life insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Sick pay
• Long-term disability (LTD)
• Paid vacation and holidays
• 401K
• Educational assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Utilities
• Education Level: Associate degree