Maintenance Planner

About the position

We are looking for a Maintenance Planner who will be responsible for planning and scheduling of maintenance PM activities and ensuring completion on time. As the Maintenance Planner you will work together with the Reliability Manager providing support on data collection, data entry, organization of plant drawings and document creation related to maintenance processes and procedures. You will also provide support to the Stores Supervisor to record accurate and precise inventory of equipment and components within the plant compared to the SAP data.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with production planning to create maintenance schedules, weekly and future forecasting
• Schedule and track the completion of preventative and predictive maintenance plans, ensuring completion on time
• Collaborate with supervisors and technicians to prioritize activities to ensure optimal maintenance for equipment
• Plan and schedule jobs for shutdowns
• Prepare spare parts prior to planned activities
• Support Plant with organization, scheduling, and completion of external PM activities
• Direct support of audits - act as a direct support for internal and external audits
• Gather machine information and update equipment profile in SAP
• Assist in maintaining and updating machine criticality analysis evaluation sheet for all plant equipment
• Ensure hard and soft copies of machine maintenance manuals and operations manuals are available, recommended spare parts are up to date and available, in the maintenance shop and on the network
• Assist in development and maintenance of preventative and predictive maintenance activities and plans within the SAP environment where possible or in additional database for all predictive maintenance activities in the plant
• Assist in the addition and accurate entering of spare parts BOM in SAP for critical equipment
• Assist the Reliability Manager in the break down (BDA/RCA) analysis and criticality (ABC) analysis
• Assist the Maintenance Manager in the preparation of the maintenance budget
• Support team projects as needed

Requirements

• 3+ years experience as a Maintenance Planner or a similar role
• Experience working in a food manufacturing environment
• An associate's degree or higher in mechanical engineering or similar field is preferred
• Ability to work independently and prioritize work efficiently
• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of SAP and Microsoft systems