Maintenance Planner - Dakota Plant

Responsibilities

• Maintaining SAP PM System data and reporting.
• Analyzing data for use in maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Maintaining and developing enterprise-wide best‑practice preventative maintenance.
• Ensuring continuous review of P.M. work orders as they relate to equipment history.
• Making recommended modifications to optimize equipment reliability and maintenance labor utilization.
• Learning Universal Maintenance Standards to develop reasonable time estimates for maintenance tasks.
• Identifying and labeling all new equipment in keeping with Tyson standards and keeping records current.
• Using KPIs to provide fact‑based feedback to the Maintenance Manager.
• Planning maintenance work with regard to skill level and safety training required.
• Reviewing SAP data from other Tyson locations with similar equipment, reporting findings and recommendations.
• Administering maintenance shift scheduling backlog and planning for scheduled downtime work, including parts availability.
• Interfacing with engineering, local management, Operations Support, other corporate departments, and outside entities on special projects and CIR development.
• Interfacing with Operations Support on reports to develop track and report to management.

• Education: Minimum high school or GED diploma; any post‑high‑school maintenance training preferred.
• Experience: Minimum two years of in‑house mechanical experience; formal mechanical skills training from Tyson maintenance; knowledge of parts‑room procedures and policies; prior experience in successfully planning and scheduling maintenance management is a plus.
• Computer
  
  Skills:
  
  Must be proficient or become proficient in SAP maintenance and Microsoft Office suite within 90 days.
• Travel: 1 to 5 trips per year.
• Special
  
  Skills:
  
  Strong mechanical aptitude, organizational skills, interpersonal communication, problem‑solving skills; ability to work independently.
• Supervisory responsibilities:
  
  None.

Shift: A Shift (United States of America). Travel: 1 to 5 trips per year.

We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.

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