Maintenance Planner

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The Maintenance Planner plays a vital role in enhancing equipment reliability and labor efficiency through the thoughtful planning, scheduling, and coordination of both corrective and preventive maintenance activities.

• Receives, manages, and processes work order requests; ensures problems are resolved quickly.
• Partners with plant personnel to create a maintenance plan that effectively and efficiently serves the plant's needs.
• Acts as liaison between employees and any outside contractors needed to resolve specialized problems and complete routine tasks.
• Drafts and implements preventive maintenance schedules for buildings and equipment.
• Organizes workflow and appointments by reading and routing verbal and written correspondence, collecting information, and managing assignments.
• Responsible for maintenance plan’s contents, which include actual work, instructions, schedule, workers, spare parts, and contractors.
• Creates detailed instructions for the task needed for each asset and writes comprehensive procedures for Technicians to understand.
• Uses time-based and condition-based metrics to provide insight into asset condition and improve maintenance programs to maximize asset life.
• Develops and maximizes predictive maintenance.
• Adds workers or contractors and creates an effective maintenance plan, including estimated working hours, spare parts and quantities, and any needed work permits.
• Develops schedules and assists the maintenance technicians in determining job priorities.
• Ensures the CMMS software data files are complete and current.
• Identifies, analyses, and reviews equipment maintenance problems with the maintenance and engineering team.
• Assists in educating operations or facilities personnel in maintenance management.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

• Education: High School Diploma/GED or equivalent work-related experience.
• Experience: 2- 5 years of experience in food processing/manufacturing planning preferred. 2-5 years of CMMS program experience.
• Knowledge &
  
  Skills:
  
  A sound knowledge of maintenance and workflow processes, along with strong technology skills. Ability to plan and schedule maintenance projects to support the facility's reliability by using effective maintenance planning skills. An effective maintenance planner has clear communication skills. Must be highly motivated and able to work independently and in groups.

• Walking:
  Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances on a regular basis.
• Repetitive motions:
  Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Stooping:
  Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist on a regular basis.
• Reaching:
  Extending hands and arms in any direction.
• Pushing:
  Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling:
  Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Kneeling:
  Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees occasionally.
• Crouching:
  Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Lifting:
  Able to lift up to 100lb occasionally and 50lb regularly
• Talking:
  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Includes activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions:
  Activities occur inside and outside.
• Subject to extreme cold:
  Temperatures below
  -15 F for limited periods possible.
• There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• Subject up to at least 92db’s.

• Computer, phone, and various other office equipment.

• We proudly offer a comprehensive benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life Insurance, FSA, Supplemental coverage, Vacation, Holiday Pay, and Personal Time Off (PTO), designed to support your well-being.