Maintenance Planner

Givaudan • Carol Stream, IL

276d • $65,000 - $85,000

About The Position

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There's much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Requirements

• Vocational diploma in Technical engineering or related discipline (pre-university level).
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field preferred.
• Overall work experience of 1 to 3 years with mechanical/electrical background in food or chemical related manufacturing environment.
• Preventive maintenance scheduling experience preferred.
• Good knowledge of craft and skill requirements to accurately estimate labour hours, material requirement and skills needed to complete a job.
• Good knowledge of maintenance, planning and scheduling and storeroom processes.
• Good computer literacy and knowledge of work order system (SAP highly preferred).
• Good mathematical skills.
• Demonstrated project planning and project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to read standard machine and process drawings, write and provide simple and accurate instructions.
• EMMS experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with Production Planners to obtain production schedules, identify equipment involved and plan for adequate resources, skills and materials for interventions.
• Review plans with Maintenance managers to validate accuracy and feasibility, and consolidate these into a master plan.
• Liaise with Supply Chain Planners as well as Logistics in order to monitor inventory of materials/equipment necessary for planned maintenance activities.
• Calculate overall maintenance costs, including labour, material and service provider costs.
• Collect, organize and update all information required for the maintenance teams to perform interventions e.g. technical drawings, vendor manual, instructions materials, standard and special procedures, etc.
• Identify deviations and document/communicate them in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures.
• Classify, sort and distribute work requests as necessary depending on class, such as emergency, safety, GMP, shutdown required, reliability, engineering, as well as priority status.
• Administer work orders and related requests such as Bill of Material, special kitting instructions and vendor services (i.e. contract vibration service, rigging service, required license service).
• Monitor and report on maintenance activities and related costs versus plan(s) and budgets.
• Keep accurate metrics on the progress of maintenance plans and provide timely reports to the Engineering and Maintenance Manager.
• Maintain and update the status of work control and backlog for work request submissions.
• Maintain and provide all necessary documents for audit requirements.
• Support the resolution of key production problems.
• Participate in lean activities.
• Work in accordance with all relevant requirements including, but not limited to ATEX, GMP, AIB, OSHA, HACCP, FDA, USDA and internal safety guidelines.
• May perform other tasks as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from 65K to 85K per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Food Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree