Maintenance Scheduler

1600 East 29th Ave Columbus Nebraska 68601

We’re Here to Move the World Forward. Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce.

This is an individual contributor position responsible for developing and managing the maintenance schedule in order to balance effectively the preventative maintenance demands and repair of essential equipment and facilities. Schedule is segmented by daily, weekly and monthly buckets. Position responsibilities include planning, scheduling and coordinating the maintenance schedule by reviewing and releasing work orders, and supplier schedules as well as doing emergency purchase of items for maintenance requirements.

This position is responsible for aligning resources with demand based on PM planning and shop floor needs. This position does purchasing for essential maintenance items not maintained in inventory and supplier scheduled orders according to existing strategy and negotiated prices. This position manages work orders and expenses for maintaining essential equipment, maintenance hours and other information as needed. Creating and executing any required action plans to close gaps.

Demonstration of the core values of the Valmont Way is also required.

• This position reports into the Maintenance Supervisor
• Create, assign, schedule, and monitor work orders in MaintainX
• This position coordinates the activities and deployable maintenance schedules
• Evaluate PM requirements and create Work Orders for PM, project work and repair work required by the maintenance team
• Maintain planned scheduling parameters, such as lead-times, lot sizes, safety stocks, delivery times and order file data for all scheduled items
• Create a schedule that satisfies production demands with optimum scheduling to prevent equipment downtime
• Identify, negotiate, and resolve conflicts with respect to material and capacity availability and order-promising integrity
• Source and request quotes for new material, or new suppliers for special purchase items.
• Review PM’s for new or change to existing materials. Coordinate and manage inventory levels
• Summarize daily and weekly work orders for released and firm planned orders and compare these to the PM plan to ensure that all maintenance needs are met

• Develop a working knowledge of Valmont equipment, manufacturing and scheduling processes to ensure optimal value stream schedule stability, work order creation, rescheduling, load leveling, etc.
• Learn and lead the implementation of Lean scheduling techniques such as Pull and Level Scheduling
• Inform management when demand cannot be met and recommend alternatives on how the requested demand could be satisfied.

• Bachelors in relevant field or Associates Degree with 3+ years of experience or 5+ years of relevant experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing techniques
• Attention to detail and quality in work

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