Maintenance Planner - Decatur, IL

Maintenance Planner - Decatur, IL Job Summary

• Responsible for planning and coordinating manpower, parts, materials and equipment access to improve workforce productivity, safety and quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays.
• Acts as a liaison between Production and Maintenance departments for planning purposes.
• Uses Maximo and other computer systems to maintain records and files essential to meaningful analysis and reporting of maintenance information.
• The Planner must know the job well enough that they can describe what is to be accomplished and can estimate how many man‑hours will be required.
• Communicate plans with all levels of the organization.

• Strong commitment to Safety in the performance of maintenance efforts.
• Work independently and with other plant personnel to plan for preventative, predictive and routine maintenance tasks. Schedule for predictive and preventative maintenance repairs.
• Complete data entry and management of equipment and repairs.
• Communicate effectively through speech and writing along with other mediums such as email.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to plan priorities effectively.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with all levels of the organization.
• Maintain equipment information and repair files.
• Track key planned maintenance metrics and communicate these metrics to the plant.
• Manage assigned mechanical contract work and assist in the supervision and control.
• Request parts and materials needed for work order packages and not stocked in the storerooms.
• Ensure adherence to standard work processes, including developing and integrating standards.
• Provide support to the team on nights, weekends, or holidays including on‑call duties.
• Review the work plan with the respective site managers/supervisors/leads, and maintain communications for planned maintenance.
• Create detailed job planning and communicate weekly maintenance work schedules which include: outage schedule, list of planned work orders, and resource requirements.
• Evaluates JSA requirements and requests support to develop when needed.
• Maintain clear, open communication with departments/requestor to determine total scope of work and the appropriate priority of work to be performed.
• Manage and understand the maintenance back‑log.
• Develop and manage AFEs for the facility.
• Ability to facilitate and run maintenance‑oriented meetings along with pre and post project review meetings.
• Develop a strong understanding of facility work rules.
• Develop a strong understanding of facility equipment.
• Act as a liaison between ADM and third‑party vendors.
• Ability to interpret maintenance manuals.
• Ability to learn and use Maintenance programs such as Maximo, Coupa.
• May perform reasonably similar or related duties as assigned.

• Experience in industrial maintenance preferred.
• Preferred knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems.
• Preferred knowledge of planning software.
• Preferred typically a minimum 1 year of experience in maintenance/reliability planning & scheduling in a GMP/FDA‑regulated area.
• Proficient in the use of computer software tools (Email, spreadsheets, word processing and database).
• Communicate effectively through speech and writing along with other mediums such as email.

• Dust
• Chemicals / Irritants
  • The scope of the position may have exposure to and use of chemicals, solvents, and cleaners that may be hazardous and/or cause injury if specific instructions regarding their mixture, use, and disposal/storage are not properly followed.
• Inside areas
  • Spring / Summer:
    Temperatures in some areas of the facility will be up to or exceed 100 degrees.
  • Fall / Winter:
    Temperatures in the facility may be at or below freezing.
• Outside areas
  • Spring / Summer:
    Outside temperature may be up to or exceed 100 degrees with potential for high humidity. May be exposed to inclement weather conditions including, but not limited to, rain and wind.
  • Fall / Winter:
    Outside temperatures reach freezing or below. May be exposed to inclement weather including freezing rain, sleet, snow and wind.
• Some manufacturing processes within the facility are highly reliant on machinery and other processing equipment and, as a result, noise levels may reach or exceed 85 decibels and require use of hearing protection for most of the work shift.

• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs from waist to shoulder on an occasional basis.
• Push/pull requirement up to 50 lbs.
• Requires a full range of physical motion to move throughout the facility, including climbing stairs in all buildings, and to work at heights.
• Must be able to walk 1–3 hours.
• Must be able to sit 5–8 hours.
• Must be able to squat/kneel on an occasional basis.
• Must be able to climb stairs/ladders on an occasional basis.
• Constant computer/keyboarding.
• Prolonged standing and frequent bending, stooping, walking, and reaching on a daily basis.