Sr. Maintenance Planner

Stoughton Trailers, LLC•Stoughton, WI

About The Position

The Sr. Maintenance Planner is responsible for leading the Planner Team to provide daily guidance and support for maintenance efforts. This role supports the Maintenance Manager in driving PM Compliance, Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), and trend analysis, while also providing training and support for CMMS operations. The position involves planning and scheduling preventive maintenance activities, coordinating plant-wide shutdowns, creating maintenance schedules, generating work orders, and adjusting schedules for emergency work. Collaboration with maintenance staff, contractors, and external vendors is crucial, as is managing work orders within the CMMS. The role also includes managing parts inventory, critical spares, and driving the materials management process, including requisitions and purchase orders. Additionally, the Sr. Maintenance Planner assists the Maintenance Leadership Team, serves as a liaison between maintenance and operations, helps develop PM plans, creates procedural manuals, assists with cost estimates, maintains records, measures and publishes PI metrics, and supports management in reviewing work order data accuracy. The goal is to reduce costs and improve parts quality.

Requirements

Experience communicating to peers, hourly associates, and senior management regarding maintenance, inventory, and cost control. Required
Ability to work in a self-directed manner and provide direction to others.
Ability to recognize opportunities for process improvements and assist with implementing them.
Must have the ability to communicate information orally and/or written to other personnel in a clear, concise manner.
Must have basic math Skills.
Must be self-driven, organized and be able to work in a fast-paced team environment.

Nice To Haves

4-year degree in Business Administration, Information System, Engineering, or related fields. Preferred
2-year degree (or professional training) in Technical Trade, Engineering, or related fields. Preferred
Planning, Scheduling, or Controller related certification. Preferred
3+ years’ experience leading technical teams in a manufacturing environment preferred.
3+ years of experience in a planner, scheduler, or dispatcher role, preferably in a manufacturing environment. Preferred
2+ years’ working experience working with enterprise asset management software and Computerized Maintenance Management Software. Preferred (eMaint and Syteline is highly desired)
2+ years’ Experience in the data analysis of the maintenance program, specifically in asset management and spare part optimization. Preferred
Experience in creating maintenance schedules for all plant equipment. Preferred
Experience determining the tools and supplies needed for each different type of machine. Preferred
Experience in ordering and keeping spare parts for various machines as needed. Preferred
Experience in developing maintenance and training manuals. Preferred
Understanding of basic financial concepts, such as estimating and budgeting. Preferred
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications, such as Excel. Preferred

Responsibilities

Leads Planner Team members to provide daily guidance to support maintenance efforts.
Supports Maintenance Manager in driving PM Compliance, Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), and trend analysis.
Provides training and support of the CMMS operations.
Plan and schedule preventive maintenance activities by task and priority level.
Coordinate plant-wide shutdowns Create maintenance schedules and generate work orders.
Adjust schedules to account for emergency work.
Coordinate with maintenance staff, contractors, and external vendors.
Support management in the scheduling and assigning of work. Manage work orders in the system, ensure proper creation, planning, update, and closure of work orders.
Manage work orders, documentation, and assets within the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
Develop and maintain accuracy of equipment metadata by regularly collecting and inputting information, such as manufacturer, model, serial number, and system structure information. The data is maintained in CMMS and equipment is labeled/barcoded or identifiable in the facility.
Develop and maintain accuracy of Work Order related data: Adding Equipment to PM Plans, Schedules, and Work Packages, Defining Scheduled due dates or initial meter points of system generated WOs.
Coach and educate staff on the CMMS functions and best practices for performing tasks.
Work with Maintenance team to develop and maintain lists of critical spares.
Manage and maintain parts inventory, critical spare lists, and alignment between the maintenance department and stock room.
Develop and maintain accuracy of spare parts data by regularly collecting and inputting information, such as supplier, catalog number, min/max quantities, pricing, manufacturer, and part numbers.
Drive materials management process in the facilities store, including but not limited to: Create and or Generate Requisitions, POs, PO Receipts (CMMS & Syteline).
Develop and maintain the 5s plan of the store.
Audit materials management process with regularly scheduled cycle counts.
Support management with data to implement corrective action as discovered in cycle counts, KPIs or other CMMS data.
Assist and support Maintenance Leadership Team.
Serves as liaison for problem solving and escalation between maintenance and operations.
Help to develop and maintain PM Plans, Schedules, Routes, and Work Packages that are aligned with the organization’s maintenance goals.
Create procedural manuals that explain how to do certain tasks.
Assist in cost estimates of labor and parts for industrial equipment.
Maintain records and files essential to maintenance management.
Measure and publish facility’s PI metrics to the management team; interpret data, troubleshoot process, and make recommendations based on findings.
Support management in the review of WO Data accuracy such as Equipment on WOs, Booked Hours (Employee and Vendors), parts usage, WO type, closing codes and WO Comments.
Work with Maintenance team to reduce costs and improve parts quality.