Maintenance Planner

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food.

Wakefield is one of the largest production facilities within Michael Foods. We serve as a flex plant and are able to produce everything from a whole pasteurized egg to liquid, dried, hardboiled and curds.

This Role is for M-F, 630am-330pm. SAP Experience is required.

SUMMARY:

The Maintenance Planner provides support to both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing maintenance process executional excellence and asset health improvement efforts. The Maintenance Planner will ensure results while partnering with the MFI ARM team, plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. The Maintenance Planner will actively participate on the maintenance workflow process team and will ensure that work orders for plant assets are in the CMMS backlog and are being planned and scheduled effectively.

The Maintenance Planner will work with Supervisors, Leads, & Technicians to help ensure that scheduled work orders are properly executed, followed through, documented and the value of the job is captured and reported. They will promote, execute, mentor, and coach excellence in planning & scheduling preventive and corrective maintenance practices. The Maintenance Planner will monitor and report WR/WO status, including backlog, to plant leadership weekly and be accountable for KPI’s using CMMS data.

They will be a competent CMMS “user” responsible for data integrity. The Maintenance Planner will become a resource to the plant who constantly assists in improving the operating condition of equipment and improving the effectiveness and performance of the maintenance team. This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce Safety as a Core Value.

Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability.

This role must be available for scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.

• Actively participate as a maintenance team support services member to ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Engage and develop the asset care team members to deliver expected levels of reliability. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture.
• Plan, schedule, and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met.
• Identify, develop, and implement maintenance process and performance improvement projects.
• Develop and implement PM and job plans for critical equipment work with the maintenance, reliability, operations, & engineering personnel.
• Actively participate in maintenance process and system training for team personnel.
• Advise/assist craftsman during planned and scheduled maintenance assignments as necessary.
• Plan and schedule preventive and corrective maintenance tasks with excellence.
• Actively participate in storeroom activities related to job packages and kitting, component criticality analysis, reliability-based storage practices.
• Actively participate in the development and sustainability of the CMMS physical asset database including equipment & component criticality, precision tasks, BOM’s, and all other necessary supporting data for asset care excellence.
• Actively participate in maintenance & reliability task scheduling for long term and short-term equipment reliability in an inclusive and transparent manner working with operations partners.
• Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support reliability reporting and decision making.…