Maintenance Planner

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This position offers the chance to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.

• The Manufacturing Maintenance Planner/Scheduler is responsible for planning and management of short‑ and long‑term maintenance activities within the manufacturing facility. They collaborate with, and make recommendations to maintenance teams, production managers, and other stakeholders to ensure efficient and effective maintenance operations. They are responsible for optimizing equipment uptime by strategic planning and coordination of manpower, preventive maintenance, and management of spare parts inventory and materials.
  
  Must be a strategic problem solver and be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • With the CMMS, develop, maintain, and implement a comprehensive maintenance strategy and schedule for production equipment, machinery, and facilities.
  • Have complete knowledge of the PM and Planned workload. Formulate and publish a weekly work schedule for PM and Planned Work before the week starts. Ensure the schedule balances with the hours available and each technician is fully loaded with work.
  • Develop priorities for maintenance work based on equipment performance data, urgency, criticality, and production requirements.
  • Analyze, prioritize, organize, and maintain a backlog of work orders awaiting scheduling for ready and total work orders.
  • Coordinate, plan and provide direction to maintenance technicians to ensure timely execution of scheduled work.
  • Coordinate with the production liaison to ensure equipment availability prior to scheduling and arrange equipment access for agreed upon jobs.
  • Organizes and maintains a ready package of schedulable work orders which require equipment to be shut down so that some or all of them can be performed in the event of an unscheduled shutdown of that equipment. These unscheduled shutdown work orders are prepared, reviewed, and updated weekly.
  • Assure even low‑priority jobs are accomplished in a reasonable period.
• Work Orders and Documentation:
  • Analyze work requests and work orders and ensure scope is clearly stated. Create detailed work orders for maintenance tasks, including descriptions, steps, required materials, and estimated time. Visit the sites and obtain drawings, manuals or include special procedures as needed.
  • Estimate the cost for each work order including labor, material, and total cost.
  • Document completed work, update maintenance logs, and track equipment history.
  • Manage a backlog of work orders awaiting scheduling.
  • Maintains accurate records of maintenance activities, repairs, and replacements, and conducts analysis and reporting of results or work done.
  • Develops a file of standard work orders (plans) for regularly recurring repair jobs, based on historical experience, to simplify the planning process.
  • Continually analyze the actual labor expended versus estimated labor and materials used for completed jobs and implements process improvements that increase the accuracy of estimating and improve methods of doing work.
  • Manages necessary records and files and prepares and distributes meaningful and accurate control reports, including weekly Key Performance Indicators.
• Inventory Management:
  • Monitor spare parts inventory levels and direct reordering as needed.
  • Collaborate with procurement and supply chain teams to ensure timely availability of critical spare parts.
  • Optimize inventory costs while ensuring minimal downtime due to part shortages.
  • Ensure all needed materials and special tools are available and pre‑kitted for efficient execution of each job.
  • Coordinates with the Parts Clerk to make sure parts are available.
• Equipment Reliability and Performance:
  • Analyze…