The Maintenance Planner will have proven experience in all facets of manufacturing maintenance planning to support sustainable production as well as new models and/or new equipment introduction when required. He/She must be capable of collaborating with cross-functional teams and department leaders to ensure that maintenance planning responds to plant operations issues and addresses concerns that affect quality, productivity, safety, and equipment maintenance. The successful candidate will also have exceptional interpersonal, planning, and scheduling Skills, demonstrating the ability to be agile and responsive to plant needs and dynamics. The Maintenance planner will work very closely with the maintenance Master data planner and report to the Maintenance supervisor.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Creating maintenance schedules and generating work orders in a computer based management systems CMMS
- identifying potential issues in a proactive manner to prevent breakdowns and other unplanned downtimes.
- Maintaining parts inventory and costs in CMMS and /or Net Suite
- Working with technical staff to create procedural instructions, work procedures, policies and other documents needed for functionality of the teams .
- Estimating costs of labor and parts for industrial equipment
- Adjusting schedules to account for emergency work.
Principal Job Duties:
- Developing and managing detailed maintenance schedules and work orders
- Coordinating and scheduling all maintenance activities
- Maintaining accurate records of maintenance performed, equipment condition, and maintenance costs
- Procuring necessary maintenance supplies and equipment
- Working with vendors and contractors as needed in ensuring that work and activities are planned and communicated to all stakeholders in time and in an accurate manner
- Assigning cost and time to tasks list including but not limited to, reviewing equipment specifications and blueprints, estimation of material and labor.
- Develop job tasks and procedures, establishing manpower and equipment requirements, assist in specifying and ordering materials, developing schedules and charts, attending planning and scheduling meetings with assigned departmental personnel, other work as defined by maintenance supervisor.
- Establish and maintain daily job status update system and identify resource requirements to meet completion of such tasks in time and in full
- Establish and communicate the schedule while working with the site to optimize resource leveraging opportunities.
- Incorporate "run to run" plans
- Ensure proper sense is established in job scheduling (task relationships such as lead/lag, start/start, start/finish, etc.).
- Ensures that Scheduling/Planning department objectives and key metrics are met.
- "Safety First" expectations include, but are not limited to, PJHA process, Observation process, and all company / site safety guidelines and procedures.
- Coordinate plant shutdowns to attain all essential schedules.
- Execute modification in maintenance records and key equipment with significant spares during setting apt reorder levels along with quantities.
- Participate in spare parts preparation and PM Lists for new equipment, modified equipment and/or existing equipment.