Maintenance Planner / Scheduler

Maintenance Planner / Scheduler

Overview

The Maintenance Planner/ Scheduler is responsible for the planning work stream in the work management process. The incumbent will work directly with the Plant Technical Team to scope and plan corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance, including the updating of corrective and preventative Job Plans with input based on feedback from the maintenance team. The incumbent will also be responsible to build and maintain equipment within the CMMS system and provide CMMS training and coaching to maintenance personnel. .The incumbent will work directly with the Maintenance Team, Production Scheduling Team and the Sanitation Team to develop short, medium and long term work schedules. The incumbent schedules 100% of all available labor hours, Schedules all outside contractor work and assembles job packets with the maintenance schedule.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• This position oversees regular job scoping, job plan creation and job close out and analysis of corrective and preventative maintenance work.
• Respond to facility work orders
• Ensures distribution of parts and materials to meet maintenance deadlines
• Examines objects, systems, or facilities and analyzes information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs
• Corrective, Predictive and Preventative maintenance job scoping planning and scheduling, including the estimation of labor, materials and cost of maintenance jobs.
• Work Order closeout and CMMS updating based on feedback from the maintenance team.
• Manage and Maintain the Plant CMMS as a Subject Matter Expert and Quality Assurance Officer
• Generate reports and track metrics on Maintenance Effectiveness.
• Manage as required Maintenance projects that are not capital funded. Includes developing project scope, costing, timelines and implementation.
• Interface with project teams on new capital projects as required, update CMMS system with removed or new installations and coordinate use of maintenance resources as required.
• Fully participate in all Continuous Improvement and Safety efforts.
• Participates in plant safety, health and environmental programs.
• Partner with the Production and support teams to develop work order priorities that are aligned with business needs. This role is the key interface to plan the work for the technical teams.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management
• Monitors maintenance records
• Ensures the movement of work orders from submission through scheduling
• Examines maintenance documents and monitor maintenance processes to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards
• Maintains high quality work order documentation and records
• Cordinates with production scheduler in scheduling meeting to schedule all ready to schedule work.
• Determines schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, criticality of equipment, Due date, production priority and skill of personnel.
• Creates weekly maintenance schedule for the associated plant and distributes maintenance schedules to departments.
• Manages work order ready to schedule backlog into short, medium and long term scheduling buckets.
• Utilizes and adheres to work scheduling work stream in the Work Management Process.
• Confers with Inner plant supervisors to schedule work within or between departments
• Generate reports and track metrics from CMMS for Scheduling compliance
• Updates Work Scheduling practices from Job Close out feedback

Education and Work Experience

• High school or equivalent degree required; a two-year technical degree required or 3 year’s planning experience required.
• 2+ years of high level maintenance technician experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to fully leverage a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), such as Maintenance Connection
• Strong Microsoft Office skills
• Knowledge of principles involved in Preventative/Predictive Maintenance
• Knowledge of maintenance project implementation
• Strong knowledge of production and manufacturing equipment and processes.
• Strong Interpersonal, decision-making, and organizational skills
• Ability to read and interpret documents and drawings.
• Ability to prepare detailed repair and metrics reports

Work Environment

The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. This job is performed in a shop environment: hazardous materials; greasy, slippery factory floors. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. This job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. All job functions are subject to modification.

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