Maintenance Planner

Omya•Lucerne Valley, CA

About The Position

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning and scheduling mechanical and electrical maintenance activities. This includes conducting field investigations, developing scopes of work, creating job boxes with necessary parts and materials, and managing maintenance planning schedules. The role also involves SAP data entry for work orders, tracking parts and labor, and closing out completed work orders. The position requires maintaining safe working conditions and ensuring compliance with QSHE and JTA procedures. Collaboration with internal departments like Production, Purchasing, and Supply Chain, as well as external contacts such as service providers and suppliers, is essential. The company, Omya, is a leading global producer of industrial minerals and a distributor of specialty materials, with a 140-year history and a presence in over 50 countries. Omya emphasizes creativity, expertise, and a collaborative environment focused on solving future challenges through mineral products, guided by values of modesty, courtesy, integrity, and perseverance.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
3 years of experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
Strong organizational skills.
Computer literacy.
Strong communication skills including reading, comprehension, listening, written and oral communications.
Ability to maintain a positive work environment and actively seek collaboration in continuous improvement activities.
Fundamental knowledge of industrial mechanical, process, and electrical equipment (piping, materials selection, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, power distribution).
Fundamental understanding of operation/maintenance of mineral processing equipment.
Good command of both oral and written local language and English.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with SAP preferred.
Good command of both oral and written additional language is beneficial.

Responsibilities

Perform basic field investigations for mechanical and electrical maintenance activities.
Develop bill of materials, scope of work, special installation instructions, and time schedules with manpower requirements.
Solicit information from vendors and contractors for parts, equipment, and prefabrications.
Allocate and requisition parts, tools, materials, and equipment, and verify delivery against scheduled installation.
Assemble "job boxes" containing all necessary parts, materials, and special tools for executing planned mechanical or electrical work orders.
Maintain safe working conditions and practices to achieve a zero lost time injury record.
Perform work duties in accordance with QSHE and JTA procedures, ensuring consultant and contractor compliance.
Utilize external resources (vendors, consultants, contractors) for information and execution means in the preparation process.
Generate maintenance planning schedules, cost reports, preventive vs. corrective work reports, and other requested schedules/reports.
Attend scheduling meetings and generate project schedules for medium to large scale maintenance outages involving multiple craft types.
Perform SAP data entry, including inputting timelines, maintenance time, and closing work orders.
Generate SAP work orders and planned orders from various initiation forms and information sources.
Retrieve completed work orders, input information into SAP, and reconcile parts and materials used with warehouse inventory and craftsmen.
Close work orders in the SAP system after verifying all parts, labor, and materials have been charged correctly.