Maintenance Planner

Company Details

Darling Ingredients repurposes and recycles materials from the animal agriculture and food industries - transforming them into essential ingredients that do everything from feeding animals to fertilizing crops to fueling planes and nourishing people. We're the number one publicly traded company of our kind, operating a global family of brands and businesses that span more than 260 facilities in over 15 countries.

Our unique scale allows us to make entire industries less wasteful and more sustainable, helping move the world toward a more circular economy.

The Maintenance Planner expedites the flow of work and materials within the maintenance department according to work orders and the production schedule. Their duties include reviewing and distribution of work orders, and PM schedules; conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates; and compiling reports on progress of work, inventory levels, costs, and maintenance problems.

• Examine documents, materials, and products, and monitor work processes, in order to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and specifications.
• Review documents such as production schedules, work orders, and staffing tables to determine personnel and material requirements, and material priorities.
• Confer with department supervisors and other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes.
• Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaboration with management, production, maintenance and logistics.
• Confer with established personnel, vendors, and customers to coordinate maintenance activities, and resolve complaints or eliminate delays.
• Record maintenance data, including work orders, spare parts used, and missed deadlines.
• Requisition s and maintains inventories of materials and supplies necessary to meet maintenance demands.
• Calculates figures such as required amounts of labor and materials, manufacturing costs, and wages, using pricing schedules, adding machines, calculators or computers.
• Distribute maintenance schedules and work orders to departments.
• Compiles information, such as work order rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, and customer information, so that status reports can be completed.
• All other duties as assigned by management.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum of 2+ years in a production or maintenance environment.

• Strong organizational and communication skills and problem solving.
• Ability to multitask, set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrates time management skills.
• Able to speak, read, and write English.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office Programs.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to fax, copy and scan documents.

The physical demands and work environment factors described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the main duties of this job.

• None
• Occasionally = up to 20%
• Frequently = 21% to 50%
• Constantly = at least 51%
• Exposed to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environments such as high noise level, strong odors, and/or exposure to heat and cold
• Exposed to bio hazardous conditions
• Exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations
• Exposed to Electrical hazards; risk of electrical shock
• Handles or works with potentially dangerous equipment
• Travels to offsite locations

• Sit:
  Must be able to remain in a stationary position.
• Walk:
  Must be able to move about inside/outside office or work location.
• Use hands to finger, handle or feel:
  Operates a computer and other office machinery.
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl:
  Must be able to position one's self to maintain computers in the lab, including under desks and in the server closet.
• Climb or balance:
  Must be able to…