Maintenance Planning Supervisor

Cambria•Le Sueur, MN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As an integral member of the Reliability Maintenance Department, the Maintenance Planning Supervisor leads a team of Maintenance Planners that plan and schedule maintenance to optimize production uptime and productivity of maintenance teams.

Requirements

Ability to read and understand technical manuals, drawings, and blueprints.
Ability to become certified in operating a forklift, overhead crane and respirator.
Ability to read and write in English to complete required documentation.
Must be proficient in Microsoft Office and/or Google applications.
Ability to supervise employees.
High School Diploma or GED
3+ years’ experience with maintenance, parts or planning.
3+ years’ experience in management or supervision.
3+ years’ experience utilizing a Computerized Maintenance Management or ERP System.

Nice To Haves

Technical two-year degree or equivalent experience in maintenance planning or maintenance.
Good organizational, planning and multi-tasking skills.
Critical thinking, process and troubleshooting skills.
Mathematical and administrative skills.

Responsibilities

Main communication contact between maintenance teams and operations regarding planned maintenance.
Review and screen incoming work requests to identify the scope and analyze required planning of the job.
Review incoming work requests with support teams and operations leaders to verify the request is needed.
Review technician follow-up work and partner with support group leaders to verify the follow-up work is needed.
Convert work requests and follow-ups into work orders and define priority level.
Supervises a team of Maintenance Planners. Performs role specific training and conducts performance reviews for continuous employee development.
Conduct field walk downs to identify and document job requirements to include, lock-out tag-out instructions, materials required, specific tasks, and other specialized equipment.
Estimates time duration and labor requirements for jobs and verifies it is planned with sequenced steps with the required number of technicians and labor.
Plans all required material to work orders, verified material is correct, and ensures it is properly kitted before the scheduled work is to be performed.
Leads and conducts weekly meetings with operations and maintenance team leadership to create a weekly maintenance schedule.
Assigns all work out to maintenance teams and verifies assignments are correct before the scheduled week of maintenance begins.
Verify that there is an adequate amount of scheduled work orders and work orders ready to be scheduled in accordance to the amount of labor available at all times.
Reviews the previous maintenance schedule and re-schedules incomplete work accordingly.
Maintains and audits the work order backlog that is waiting to be scheduled and planned.
Coordinate and communicate with outside vendors for any outsourced work orders to be scheduled.
Creates detailed and specific job plans that are documented for routine maintenance in collaboration with support teams.
Performs audits of preventive maintenance plans on a routine basis.
Creates, monitors, and implements Key Performance Indicators for the Maintenance Planning team.
Recommends appropriate inventory levels of spare parts and additional parts to be inventoried.
Participates within the Reliability Maintenance Department on recommending asset and proactive maintenance improvements.