Maintenance & Reliability Planning Specialist

Maintenance & Reliability Planning Specialist

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

The Maintenance and Reliability Planning Specialist will plan moderately complex maintenance on our plant assets and equipment following established program guidelines. In this role, you will develop unique job plans to improve the work force efficiency and quality by identifying the elements of an executable work package. You will be planning the maintenance of processing and packaging equipment to ensure maximum uptime, providing advanced knowledge of consistent maintenance and reliability best practices in the completion of planning and prioritizing moderately complex tasks.

• Research and compile information and feedback from crafts necessary to generate highly effective and detailed job plans.
• Initiate the procurement of materials, special tools and unique items required in the job plans using relevant maintenance programs and database tools.
• Transition capital improvement projects from project stage to operations and update information in the database to reflect the improvement, addition, or deletion of equipment and their associated spare parts and maintenance procedures.
• Prepare and provide detailed job plans for moderately complex preventative maintenance activities that comply with fundamental plant maintenance procedures and practices.
• Plan and schedule maintenance downtime and communicate cross functionally with technical and management teams to minimize production impact and improve reliability.
• Maintain custom databases and computerized maintenance management system to support specific work projects and processes.
• Engage in continuous improvement planning to enhance on time performance of technical activities.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of two years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

• Continuous improvement experience like lean or six sigma
• 5+ years of SAP experience
• Mechanical background experience

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet