Maintenance Planner
About The Position
Under the general direction of the Maintenance Manager, the Maintenance Planner works with maintenance supervision, operations departments, staff, engineering, contractors, and OEMs to ensure maintenance is effectively planned, performed, and documented. The role supports safe and event-free work, coordinates and leads OMPA and contractor skilled-craft workers, improves equipment reliability, and supports the Power Production department’s objectives of safe, reliable, and cost-effective power generation. The position has an instrumentation and electrical focus. The planner prepares detailed job plans, coordinates schedules, builds and improves preventive and corrective maintenance work, maintains CMMS data integrity, and orders and manages spare parts inventories. The position is typically Monday through Friday on day shift, with normal hours of 0700–1530. The successful candidate is expected to provide after-hours and weekend support for abnormal events, including forced outages and derates, and for planned events, including scheduled night and weekend work during outages.
Requirements
- Specialized knowledge in a field such as power plants, instrumentation, electrical equipment, control systems (DCS, PLC), VFDs, controls logic, project management, or outage coordination.
- Education equivalent to four years of high school plus specialized training equivalent to two years of college, and three years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to read and understand instructions, correspondence, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and business-related materials; write routine reports, correspondence, and procedures; and communicate effectively with individuals and groups.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts including percentages, proportions, area, circumference, and volume, and apply fractions, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Ability to solve practical problems with known variables and interpret written, oral, or diagram-based instructions.
- Intermediate skills in alphanumeric data entry, contract management, databases, spreadsheets, word processing/typing, and CMMS; basic 10-key and accounting skills.
- Ability to work under direction, plan and arrange one’s own work, and refer unusual cases to a supervisor.
- Ability to support work planning and make decisions affecting work operations.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including regularly standing, walking, sitting, using hands, reaching, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, talking, and hearing; occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds and frequently lift or move up to 25 pounds.
- Ability to work in environments that may include moving mechanical parts, heights, fumes or airborne particles, chemicals, outdoor weather, wet or humid conditions, extreme temperatures, and risk of electrical shock.
Nice To Haves
- Electrical and instrument equipment experience.
- Power plant experience.
- CMMS understanding and experience.
Responsibilities
- Perform duties safely and collaboratively, report potential hazards or safety concerns promptly, and develop job-plan solutions for safety-related items, prioritizing them as urgent.
- Plan and schedule corrective, preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance activities using the CMMS, coordinating daily with Operations and maintenance supervision.
- Prepare daily planned-maintenance job packages, required task lists, and spare-parts kits.
- Track work orders, produce reports, and maintain equipment history files in the CMMS.
- Control and optimize maintenance spare-parts ordering, stocking, issuing, and inventorying.
- Work with OEMs, plant engineering, maintenance associates, and equipment manuals to define proper maintenance tasks and spare parts and enter them into the CMMS.
- Support root-cause problem solving and analysis of maintenance costs, activities, and trends.
- Support the development of new and refinement of existing preventive-maintenance tasks, procedures, and schedules.
- Lead supplier relations for vendor-managed spare parts.
- Serve as an expert CMMS user and support maintenance associate training and use of the system.
- Promote and comply with good safety practices and habits, including the use of PPE.
- Perform related or additional duties as required or assigned.
- Provide after-hours and weekend support for abnormal events and planned outage work, including scheduled night and weekend work.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
