Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner Location of the job:
Raeford, NC Shift Assignment: 1st

Shift: 6:30 am – 3:00 pm (Mon – Friday) Pay Rate – $29.21 | Weekly pay period Overall Benefits:
These are direct hires, full time position with a full benefits package (
* Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, SHARE purchase, Tuition/Fitness reimbursement, Paid leaves, Hourly Bonus payouts, etc.) Benefits are effective the first day of hire (where applicable) Employee Referral Bonus Program Onsite Company store for discounted product purchases Onsite cafeteria Uniforms and PPE provided by the company Career Advancement Opportunities

Background & Purpose of the Job At Unilever – Raeford, we believe in developing talent and leading through our autonomous ways of working. As one team, we will achieve endless possibilities! The Raeford facility is a world-class personal care manufacturing site, utilizing digital tools to be a lighthouse factory globally. :
The primary role of the Maintenance Planner Scheduler is to plan all nonemergency work for maintenance technicians by ensuring detailed job plans are created and the right parts and tools are identified so that the technician can perform the job in the most efficient manner and at the lowest cost.

• Ensures tasks required to execute job safely are identified and given top priority in work planning and scheduling.
• Works with management to properly prioritize work and ensure proper resource allocation.
• Meets daily with the Production Management of their assigned area to communicate equipment needs and to request time needed for equipment repairs to minimize downtime.
• Meets daily with Supervisors and Technicians as required to communicate equipment needs and upcoming plans/projects.
• Conducts daily floor walks as needed to scope jobs and ensure clear communication of work to be performed.
• Works with Tool crib, Engineering and Techs to identify, procure spare parts.
• Maintains a BOM and critical spare list for all equipment.
• Upon receiving spare parts, removes from packing and verifies that parts are correct before kitting and scheduling job.
• Works with Repair Coordinator to ensure all repairable equipment for assigned area is sent out for repair or plans and schedules for repairs to be completed in-house.
• Reviews, plans, verifies kitted parts for all recurring PM (preventive maintenance) and PDM (predictive maintenance) activities.
• Receives and reviews all incoming non-emergency work orders, work requests and defect tags from the requesting departments of the areas to which he/she is assigned.
• Ensures the request has the required information and is assigned to the correct department.
• Creates detailed job plans for all non-emergency work orders and uses resources to determine scope and most efficient way to accomplish the work.
• Identifies and obtains materials and prints required to complete the work order.
• Consults with requester, Maintenance Supervisor, Engineers or Craftsman as needed before scheduling work.
• Develops and maintains planner reference systems (library) including a maintenance project list that is updated weekly and file of planned job packages for recurring jobs.
• Equipment and process specific labor and material information within the library are used to simplify the planning of new jobs.
• Communicates with the storeroom to ensure that the kitted materials and parts needed for all scheduled work are staged at the job site or in the kitting area for his/her department.
• Assists Storeroom with kitting area and ensures that same is clean, organized and well labeled.
• Works with cross functional team of Operations, Maintenance Techs, and Engineering to determine PM effectiveness and optimize PM’s to prevent future failures.
• Reviews completed work orders and…