Maintenance Planner

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food.

Wakefield is one of the largest production facilities within Michael Foods. We serve as a flex plant and are able to produce everything from a whole pasteurized egg to liquid, dried, hardboiled and curds.

The Maintenance Planner provides support to both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing maintenance process executional excellence and asset health improvement efforts. This role is for M-F, 630am-330pm. SAP Experience is required. The Maintenance Planner will ensure results while partnering with the MFI ARM team, plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success.

This role must be available for scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.

Key responsibilities include:

• Actively participate as a maintenance team support services member to ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost, are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Engage and develop the asset care team members to deliver expected levels of reliability. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture.
• Plan, schedule, and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met
• Identify, develop, and implement maintenance process and performance improvement projects
• Develops and implements PM and job plans for critical equipment work with the maintenance, reliability, operations, & engineering personnel.
• Actively participate in maintenance process and system training for team personnel
• Advise / assist craftsman during planned and scheduled maintenance assignments as necessary
• Plan and schedule preventive and corrective maintenance tasks with excellence
• Actively participate in storeroom activities related to job packages and kitting, component criticality analysis, reliability-based storage practices
• Actively participate in the development and sustainability of the CMMS physical asset data base including equipment & component criticality, precision tasks, BOM’s, and all other necessary supporting data for asset care excellence
• Actively participate in maintenance & reliability task scheduling for long term and short-term equipment reliability in an inclusive and transparent manner working with operations partners
• Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support reliability reporting and decision making. This will be accomplished through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.
• Keep accurate and up-to-date records as required.
• Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement.
• Promote, and foster Michael Foods culture, values, and principles.
• Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviors. Assumes personal responsibility to insure safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Adheres to Quality work practices, follows GMP’s, maintains sanitary conditions and ensures that product quality is maintained. Reports on conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Always ensures required regulatory compliance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent
• Associate's degree or two-year technical certificate, or experience which demonstrates technical aptitude preferred
• 2 to 3 years of experience as an industrial maintenance technician preferred
• Trained and competent in MFI MTL1 and MTL2 skills preferred
• Ability to read and decipher mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and P& preferred
• E&I troubleshooting experience preferred
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