Maintenance Planner

Givaudan•Mount Olive, NJ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Maintenance Planner you will develop and communicate maintenance plans, including routine and preventive interventions, related schedules as well as resources, skills, and materials needed to maintain installations/equipment and avoid/minimize disruptions in production.

Requirements

Vocational diploma in Technical engineering or related discipline (pre-university level).
Certification required in forklift operation as well as in at least one of the following pipefitting, welding, or pump, PLC, electrical, robotics or equipment repair.
Overall work experience of 6 to 8 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 labor 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.

Nice To Haves

Preventive maintenance scheduling experience
SAP highly preferred
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.