Maintenance Planner

Aquent, a trusted partner to a leading global manufacturer, is seeking exceptional talent to join a team known for innovative products and a steadfast commitment to quality. This organization prides itself on fostering an environment where dedication and expertise drive operational excellence and continuous improvement. By joining this team, you will be part of a dynamic workplace that values precision, efficiency, and a proactive approach to maintaining world-class facilities, directly contributing to the seamless operation of critical infrastructure and the continuous flow of high-volume manufacturing.

Are you a highly organized and detail-oriented professional ready to make a significant impact on operational efficiency? We are seeking a dedicated individual to step into a crucial role where you will directly contribute to maximizing team effectiveness and ensuring the smooth functioning of vital operations. This position offers the opportunity to be at the heart of maintaining critical infrastructure, ensuring that teams have the resources and plans they need to succeed, and playing a key role in minimizing downtime and optimizing resource allocation.

Your expertise will be instrumental in keeping production running seamlessly and supporting a high-volume manufacturing environment, directly influencing productivity and operational success.

• Review work orders for completeness, legibility, and job content, taking appropriate corrective action.
• Determine job scope and limit conditions through field checks and consultation with both Production and Maintenance supervision.
• Review initial job priority and relative status to other work orders before entering them into the backlog file according to formal procedures.
• Analyze work for methods and craft requirements, issuing sub-orders and maintaining total job coordination responsibility.
• Determine required materials, supplies, equipment, tools, drawings, and engineered information.
• Initiate procurement using bills of materials and verify their availability before scheduling jobs.
• Prepare detailed estimates using simplified maintenance standards, historical data, and experience-based approximations.
• Identify and secure all necessary technical information, simple non-engineered sketches, safety measures, utility requirements, and production clearances.
• Complete planning packages for work orders and review them with Maintenance supervision.

• Determine approximate work order commencement dates from priority sequence and through consultation with both Production and Maintenance supervision.
• Establish the sequence and duration of all craft skills, including sub-order requirements, and prepare a tentative timetable that coordinates an entire work order.
• Prepare a detailed schedule that identifies daily activities, including allowances for emergency work, for all the next week’s work orders.
• Submit schedules to Maintenance supervision and review in detail.
• Review major changes in scope after starting a work order that will require planning changes beyond daily activity and revise the weekly schedule accordingly.
• Comply with formal procedures to close jobs after completion.
• Prepare and submit weekly performance reports as a measure of scheduling efficiency.

• Make independent decisions that minimize downtime and reduce maintenance spend through scheduling of personnel, material, and contractor selection.
• Maintain necessary records and files that facilitate planning and scheduling and are consistent with basic functions.
• Monitor all documentation and formal reports to ensure their accuracy, timeliness, and utility, taking prescribed corrective action.
• Provide requested information or submit special…