Planner - Maintenance (Maintenance)

FreshPet•Ennis, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for scheduling preventive and regular maintenance with minimal interruption to production operations. This role is the principal contact and liaison between maintenance, production and other supporting departments in relation to determining the timing for execution of planned maintenance work. This position works to ensure that Production units balance their need for daily output with their need of equipment reliability through proactive maintenance practices. This is role is also responsible for effectively providing direction, plan, schedule, and prioritize work orders by allocating resources and managing multiple tasks.

Requirements

In-depth knowledge of packing and filling equipment
Demonstrated organization and delegation ability
Ability to organize and lead a team
Ability to physically inspect plant properties where climbing steps, ladders and physical exertion is a primary responsibility
Ability to effectively create and implement a maintenance plan
Minimum (2) year technical degree
Minimum (5) years’ experience in plant maintenance, food industry strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Organize and coordinate the Maintenance Department to repair and maintain the equipment in a cost-effective manner which promotes optimal production and operating efficiency
Helps identify repetitive problems, troubleshoot equipment and develop and implement solutions
Oversees condition-based monitoring to predict required maintenance before failure occurs
Coordinates investigations of critical failures and report findings
Estimates, plans, schedule and analyze plant maintenance work
Prioritizes and enters work orders
Assigns work orders to specific departments
Develops weekly repair schedules for the Maintenance Department
Develops short shutdown repair schedules
Prepares and documents preventive maintenance schedules for all equipment
Maintains and maximizes the utilization of the CMMS system
Ensures accurate information on work orders, what work is required, and what work was done for proper planning and accurate historical records