Maintenance Planner

Overview

Our dairy cooperative is seeking a regular, full-time Maintenance Planner to be a principal contact and liaison between Maintenance, Operations and other supported departments. In this capacity, the planner ensures that all Maintenance internal customers receive timely, efficient and quality service. The Maintenance Planner will help Operations balance their need for daily output with their need of equipment reliability through proactive maintenance.

This position is responsible for assisting the Maintenance Manager and Maintenance Supervisor with long-range planning as well as immediate needs. The job holder will be responsible for coverage of the Maintenance Supervisor responsibilities during operating times and replacement of the Maintenance Supervisor during absence.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for initiating the requisitioning process for all CMMS materials and oversee storeroom to establish, maintain, improve and optimize MRO inventory.
• Maintain a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMME) for managing and tracking work orders, backlog, spare parts and maintenance history of plant equipment and make recommendations on manpower allocation, levels and overtime needs, including the deployment of contractors as needed. Support implementation of any new or changing CMME software.
• Establish, maintain, and improve the maintenance planning and scheduling flow process.
• Accountable for day-to-day detailed maintenance planning, continuous improvement, repair/replacement of plant equipment, scheduling, and cost estimating to maximize mechanical availability, while achieving budgeted targets in a safe, cost effective, and timely manner.
• Provide planning support for projects and major maintenance events in each respective area of the facility through planning techniques to effectively control maintenance activities and labor utilization.
• Assist in maintenance activities as needed.
• Hands-on contributor, overseeing planning and scheduling of the day-to-day maintenance, repair or replacement of plant equipment to ensure manufacturing efficiency, quality, and safety while supporting the policies, goals, and objectives of the Company.
• Uphold safety, health and environmental procedures, support the department to ensure OSHA and EPA compliance at all times, raise related issues or concerns immediately.
• Maximize resources by identifying parts, materials, special tools, external services, rentals and documentation by establishing, maintaining and improving the maintenance planning and scheduling flow and process.
• Develop a preliminary scope of work needed, including cost and time required, to conduct the relevant repair, preventive, predictive and improvement maintenance activities of the plant equipment, buildings, and grounds.
• Prepares job plans for scheduling, detailing parts, materials, special tools, external services and documentation with planned costs. Job plans to include the sequencing of associated tasks.
• Competent in root cause failure analysis to continuously improve the mechanical reliability of the plant.
• Initiate and implement best practices with an emphasis on planning/scheduling and preventive/predictive maintenance.
• Ensure maintenance personnel update and close each work order when completed.
• Prepare reports, collect and analyze data, and make recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance-related and operation-related problems.
• Routinely assist the Maintenance Manager with the operation of plant equipment and systems to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate and solve problems in a timely manner and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Provide trouble-shooting assistance to the mechanical, electrical and related functions.
• Identify current and future maintenance requirements and ensure two-way communication regularly by working closely with all plant employees, including operations, engineering, outside contractors and members of management to ensure coordination of maintenance activities.
• Collaborate with Maintenance Manager and operations supervision to schedule day-to-day resources for the most effective production and maintenance outcomes
• Support equipment upgrades, plant improvements, expansions and installations by conferring and collaborating with Maintenance Manager, operations personnel, design engineers and outside contractors in coordinating the activities of the maintenance crew.
• Support the Maintenance Manager in the development and implementation of planned shutdown and other continuous improvement projects.
• Provide orderly procedures for processing work to prevent work orders from getting lost by: (1) maintaining accurate backlog status; and (2) report completions promptly.
• Schedule flexibility, willingness to work overtime, weekends, support off-shift calls, rotate shift, as required.
• Must perform all work-related tasks using Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), following the Food Safety and Food Quality requirements of the SQF Program. This includes the…