Maintenance Planner

First Quality • Salt Lake, UT

24d • Onsite

About The Position

First Quality is seeking a Maintenance Planner for its First Quality Home Care Products, LLC facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. The position improves workforce productivity and work quality by proactively eliminating potential delays and obstacles through proper planning and coordination of parts, machine time, and labor. The Planner/Scheduler plans and schedules maintenance work in the assigned area, serves as a liaison between Operations and Maintenance, and maintains records and files for meaningful analysis and reporting.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of industrial maintenance experience.
• Mechanical or electrical background.
• Adequate trade knowledge to estimate labor hours and materials and visualize job execution.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good administrative and mathematical skills.
• Working knowledge of computers within a reasonable training period.
• Good planning, organizational, and multitasking skills.
• Ability to understand what constitutes good instructions.
• Ability to read blueprints and shop drawings.
• Sketching ability.
• Understanding of the proper use of work orders, priorities, and scheduling.
• Customer-service orientation and commitment.
• Ability to communicate and teach reliability best practices, condition monitoring, and precision methods.

Nice To Haves

• Technical school background or an Industrial Engineering degree.
• Familiarity with computerized maintenance management systems such as MP2, SAP, or EAM.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal contact between the Maintenance department and the plant.
• Receive work orders from requesting departments, excluding emergency work; review and screen them for completeness, discuss details with requesters, and determine whether the requested work is needed.
• Determine the best way to complete each job, consulting requesters, Maintenance Supervisors, Engineering, or functional crews as needed.
• Obtain blueprints, drawings, instructional manuals, and special procedures; prepare additional sketches or diagrams when necessary to clarify work orders.
• Identify and obtain determinable materials and critical items, and record material needs on work orders.
• Give safety needs top priority in work planning.
• Estimate job steps, tradesperson requirements, labor hours, and costs for direct labor, materials, and total work orders.
• Maintain prioritized backlog files for work orders awaiting planning or scheduling, including estimated completion dates.
• Verify that parts, materials, and special tools are available before scheduling work.
• Maintain knowledge of each department's preventive maintenance workload and review schedule and labor-availability forecasts daily.
• Develop maintenance work schedules for the maintenance area supervisor.
• Attend Operations Planning meetings, participate in scheduling the following week's plant work, and negotiate maintenance downtime windows.
• Finalize schedules to balance available labor hours and provide each person with a full day's work.
• Establish and maintain effective communications and partnerships with suppliers.
• Perform other duties as requested.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance through a dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2,500
• Bundle of joy benefit: a year's worth of free diapers for team members with a new baby
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed