Outage Planner; Escanaba, MI

Outage Planner (Escanaba, MI)

Summary

Description:

The primary responsibility of this position is to effectively plan, coordinate, and schedule production outages, to insure efficient execution of the required repair work. This involves coordinating across production areas to ensure maximum efficiency of staffing and utilization of production downtime, as well as developing the necessary cost forecasting and outage schedules. This person is responsible for all Bi‑Monthly and Annual Area Outages.

• Plan, prioritize and schedule maintenance work orders including material needs, safety information, appropriate maintenance history and critical information to complete jobs safely and efficiently.
• Field work as required to ensure the quality of maintenance work.
• Process material requests and expedite as necessary to ensure that parts are on hand when needed.
• Work with Operations and Maintenance Supervision to prioritize and schedule maintenance work.
• Provide support for maintenance planned machine shutdowns including critical path charts.
• Provide support for maintenance emergency unplanned work orders.
• Evolve reliability work from reactionary to a proactive condition‑based maintenance process including the creation of new preventative maintenance plans in SAP.
• Ensure that maintenance work is carried out at a minimum cost in labor, materials and lost production.
• Maintain harmonious relations with employees by administering contract provisions and company policies.
• Create and maintain functional locations, equipment and bill of materials in SAP.
• Administer requisitions and service entries in SAP.
• Hires and manages contract maintenance resources in area of responsibility.
• Provide weekend coverage of all mill maintenance operations as scheduled.
• Interacts with key operational stakeholders on outage planning and execution activities.
• Facilitate and ensure contractor procurement activities conform to “T” minus schedules. Includes detailed scope development, RFQ development and awards.
• Coordinates outage contractor resources and interfaces with operations and maintenance.
• Ensure the proper application of construction and maintenance resources to insure their efficient utilization on the outage right priorities.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or other relevant engineering degree and 3‑5 years’ experience in maintenance or engineering in an industrial facility, OR equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Travel:
Negotiable

• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of industrial equipment and components such as pumps, motors, bearings, refrigeration systems, compressors, piping systems, etc.
• Understanding of maintenance and repair work processes (MWS)
• Strong computer skills; prefer SAP, Microsoft applications and CMMS systems

Billerud NA is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.