Maintenance Planner

B&G Foods Inc.•Ankeny, IA

27d•Onsite

About The Position

Ready to be part of something special? Join our Family! This role is responsible for the continuous improvement of preventive maintenance planning and prioritizing work order completion. The Maintenance Planner will advise the Maintenance Manager of all critical issues and assist in advance planning to prevent issues. This position routinely interacts, communicates, and collaborates with various members of the maintenance and production teams to meet the needs of plant operations on a daily basis. The Maintenance Planner will review the production schedule daily with management and leads to ensure lines are changed over, set up, and tested at the earliest opportunity. They will receive and examine all work orders, determine the scope and best way to accomplish the workload, and assign accordingly, ensuring safety work orders take precedence. This role identifies and obtains necessary materials for work orders and prepares them for assigned technicians. The Maintenance Planner develops and maintains planner reference systems, including a file of planned job packages for recurring jobs, utilizing equipment and process-specific labor and material information to simplify planning. Post-job reviews are performed to ensure adequate work was completed and testing was sufficient, identifying necessary changes to the PM program, equipment design, or inventory management practices. The role also provides supporting reports to the Maintenance Manager regarding labor and parts usage, and trending documentation. Ensuring food safety/quality policies are followed and reporting any issues is a key responsibility, as is reporting all unsafe acts and conditions immediately to promote a safe working environment.

Requirements

Possess strong written, verbal and people skills.
Ability to support the improvement of plant reliability and the move from reactive to proactive maintenance work.
Possess strong organizational skills and analytical skills with proficiencies in data analysis and trend analysis.
Fast troubleshooting and resolution skills with ability to manage multiple tasks with shifting priorities.
Strong understanding of OSHA safety practices and procedures.
Possess a valid driver’s license.
Strong knowledge of CMMS systems and related systems/software.
Strong knowledge of Microsoft applications (Excel, Outlook).

Responsibilities

Continuous improvement of preventive maintenance planning and prioritizing work order completion.
Advise Maintenance Manager of all critical issues and assist in advance planning to prevent issues.
Routinely interact, communicate, and collaborate with Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Purchasing, Maintenance Forepersons, Maintenance Technicians, Production Manager and/or Production Supervisors to meet needs of plant operations on daily basis.
Review production schedule daily with Maintenance Manager, Supervisor and Leads to ensure lines are changed over, setup and tested at the earliest opportunity.
Receive and examine all work orders to be done and determine scope and best way to accomplish workload and assign accordingly, ensuring safety work orders take precedence.
Identify and obtain materials required on the work orders and have prepared for assigned technician.
Develop and maintain planner reference systems (library) including a file of planned job packages for recurring jobs.
Perform post job reviews to ensure actual work performed and post maintenance testing was adequate; identify changes needed to PM program (based on activity results) and/or changes to equipment design and/or inventory management practices to optimize the overall maintenance process.
Provide Maintenance Manager with supporting reports of labor usage, parts and material usage, trending documentation, etc.
Ensure food safety/quality polices are followed, report all food safety/quality problems out of his/her realm of responsibility to proper authority to initiate corrective actions.
Report all unsafe acts and unsafe working conditions to supervision/management immediately.
Promote a safe working environment.