Maintenance Planner

Lamb Weston • Delhi, LA

22h

About The Position

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world. A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together. If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you. The position of Maintenance Planner Utilities plans and schedules the daily activities of the Utilities maintenance crew to ensure maximum productivity and plant reliability. This position will encompass the Utilities area (Boiler and Refrigeration). This position will be heavily involved in the operation and maintenance of the plant’s Ammonia Refrigeration system and will have specific duties in the PSM program.

Requirements

• Must have the ability to read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Must have the ability to write correspondence.
• Must have the ability to effectively present information in a one-on-one and small group situations to vendors and other team members.
• Must have the ability to understand equipment drawings, schematics, diagrams and operating instructions.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs.
• Strong work ethic and employment history
• Strong PC skills, to include Windows, Word, Excel, and SAP
• Excellent organization, communication and problem solving skills
• May be required to work any and all days of the week or overtime in accordance with production and maintenance schedules.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Food Processing preferred.
• Previous experience as a Maintenance Planner or Supervisor preferred.

Responsibilities

• Improving maintenance work force effectiveness by eliminating the potential for delays and obstacles through proper planning and coordination of parts, equipment and people.
• Promoting a safe working environment and safe work practices.
• Planning major repairs.
• Planning work for quality with efficiency and contributing to the effective utilization of the R & M budget.
• Maintaining information to permit meaningful analysis of results and work completed.
• Provides detailed planning of work orders
• Orders materials as needed for work orders
• Manages the work order backlog
• Maintains a planned backlog of routine and shutdown work using a priority system.
• Participates in the scheduling of work process
• Maintains existing records and adds new equipment records to the SAP system
• Ensures the availability of adequate critical spare parts and acts as a resource for locating spare parts
• Participates in the plant safety program by assisting and supporting the maintenance leader in completing safety activities including housekeeping, audits, inspections, and meetings.
• From feedback received from the craftpersons in the field, the Planner is a key person in monitoring the Precision Maintenance status of equipment in the area and he is responsible for ensuring that the correct entries in regards to precision maintenance are entered into historical records and for initiating new work orders to bring the equipment to precision maintenance state during future opportunities.
• By examining History Records and recognizing repeating failures, the Planner is responsible for identifying and communicating suspect equipment.
• Acts as a technical resource for the Root Cause Failure Analysis process.

Benefits

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
• Paid Time Off
• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
• Family-Friendly Employee events
• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree