Maintenance Planner

Flora Food Group•New Century, KS

About The Position

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for organizing the preventative, corrective, and improvement of maintenance activities of the Maintenance Department by coordinating machines, parts, services and staff availability. This position will be essential in establishing PM schedules in coordination with production schedules and the generation of reports using SAP and other methods. The Maintenance Planner works primarily with Operations and Maintenance to ensure an effective Maintenance Operation. This position is responsible for working closely with the Parts Coordinators to maintain a plant’s parts systems that ensures the necessary parts are on hand to minimize production downtime and maximize PM effectiveness while controlling the spare parts inventory valuation through SAP. This role includes working with vendors to schedule services, learning systems, developing procedures, and training related personnel. The Maintenance Planner also works with Operations group to manage F-Tags and improvements, as well as repair requests. Specifically, the Maintenance Planner enters the work orders and provides the necessary reports to enable the efficient completion of all Work Orders.

Requirements

Must have experience in the operation of a computerized inventory management system (CMMS).
Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Familiarity with proper Maintenance and Machine Shop procedures and techniques.
Organizational skills are strongly required to manage the load of Work Requests and Work Orders to ensure work flow continues to run smoothly.
Ability to lift 50 lbs and more than 50 lbs with the aid of lifting assistance.
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to influence others. Ability to communicate effectively with mechanical staff in order to facilitate the execution of work orders and projects.
Strong interpersonal skills; the ability to build collaborative relationships and networks with multiple and diverse stakeholders, internal and external partners.
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
Ability to drive change and innovation by gathering knowledge and resources to ensure tasks are completed within timelines to a high degree of accuracy and professionalism.
Ability to understand and influence teams to adapt to new ways of working
Education. High school diploma or equivalent. At least college degree.
5+ years experience with Packaging Operations, Maintenance and equipment

Responsibilities

Responsible for supporting the Continuous Improvement Process through participation, addressing, and closing issues timely; initiate improvement projects based upon review of maintenance data.
Responsible for identification, implementation and follow-up on productivity improvements in areas such as machine downtime and labor (mechanical) expenditure.
Responsible for continually improving maintenance performance levels in outputs, quality, safety, HAACP, WCM and general loss reduction through training and follow-up.
Responsible for compliance to all policies, procedures, safety, quality, and sanitation rules and government regulations.
Be Planning Subject Matter Expert (SME) in CMMS software (SAP) and responsible for training personnel in the use of the site CMMS system.
Assist and recommend new projects and methods to minimize costs while ensuring accurate systems.
Assign maintenance personnel work via CMMS as required.
Track and assess mechanical efficiency and maintenance costs.
Track and update the site CMMS program (including lubrication, inspections, shutdown work, entering new equipment and procedures).
Plan and schedule overhaul and shutdown work
Maintain equipment repair histories (including mean time between failures, costs, etc)
Generate site KPI reports with regards to effective maintenance.
Coordinate outside contractors as necessary.
Work with Parts Coordinators to ensure necessary parts are on hand to complete assigned work.