Maintenance Planner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Minimum of an associate degree in related field
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical drawings and create simple sketches.
• Minimum of five years in technical field with hands-on experience
• Minimum of seven years’ experience in a maintenance planning and scheduling function
• Lean experience / Six Sigma Green Belt
• Previous experience with CMMS software (SAP experience preferred)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or engineering preferred
• Maintenance management certificate / Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional preferred

Responsibilities

• Evaluate incoming work requests for required information and segregate the work as prescribed
• Evaluate existing and incoming work volumes and communicate with stake holders to establish priority and use contractors as necessary to meet established priority.
• Identify work requiring the need for engineering and submit engineering requests as required
• Maintain a current backlog by identifying aging work and create an action plan for completion.
• Develop scope of work and limiting conditions through worksite evaluation and consultation with the requester, engineering, management and equipment suppliers.
• Identify special tools, equipment and required trades.
• Identify and provide required safety procedures and documents and coordinate as needed.
• Determine required materials, drawings, and engineered information, initiate procurement using or creating a bill of materials and verify lead time for scheduling function.
• Provide specifications and special procedures for job plans
• Complete pre and post job review with management team and update accordingly.
• Estimate labor requirements using simplified maintenance standards, historical standards and experience-based approximations for schedule creation.
• Organize and facilitate meetings with Engineering, Project Managers and Management as required to ensure project success through meeting documentation and the creation of required tasks to drive success.
• Prepare detailed estimates using simplified maintenance standards, historical standards and experience-based approximations for budgeting purposes.
• Identify repeatable tasks and archive as a job plan/ task lists for future use.
• Update work order descriptions and job plans for clear and concise information.
• Determine job commencement date based on priority, equipment availability, alignment with criticality matrix, maintenance supervision and material lead-time requirements.
• Arrange availability in accordance with the project timeline through coordination with other planner groups.
• Prepare a detailed weekly schedule that identifies daily activities, including allowance for emergency work and preapproved vacations.
• Revise the weekly schedule for major changes in project scope affecting resources and communicate these changes to all effected parties.
• Coordinate and lead weekly schedule meeting with contractors, operations and maintenance, including negotiation of additional downtime for critical work.
• Prepare shutdown schedules and at regular intervals review with operations and maintenance supervision.
• Load level preventive maintenance program
• Establish sequence and duration of all craft skills, including sub‑order requirements, and prepare tentative timeline that coordinates an entire project.
• Make recommendations for reoccurring equipment issues and capital purchases.
• Identify and communicate continuous improvement opportunities.
• Self-development through ongoing education and / or work place training.
• Review metrics and departmental reports to identify and execute improvements in planning.
• Participate in PM optimization
• Lead and participate in 5s / BPR events
• Improve wrench time through routine evaluations of estimated versus actual times and job plans to improve work execution by associates.
• Participate in the management of the preventive maintenance program including required documentation (i.e. OSHA, EPA, etc.).
• Active participation in daily tiered meetings and staff meetings.
• Identify obsolescence and communicate risk to stake holders and complete an engineering request.
• Update bill of materials and submit requests for removal from MRO.
• Manage equipment documentation program including archiving, updates and removal of documentation for eliminated equipment.
• Review and update all notifications for data integrity, communicate issues at tiered meetings
• Maintain a clean organized kitting and staging area for materials by placing materials in bins, completing regular audits and communicating kitted material location on job plans.
• Provide requested information or submit special reports as required by supervision.
• Complete other assignments that are consistent with the basic function or as required by supervision.
• Mentor Junior Planners, Technicians and Team Leaders.

Benefits

• Day 1 benefits
• Performance bonus/variable incentive compensation
• Competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing
• Access to career growth and development opportunities
• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Strong culture of innovation