Maintenance Planner

The Opportunity:

The Maintenance Planner reports to the Reliability Engineer and plays a key role in managing and coordinating Work Management activities. The Planner develops comprehensive maintenance job plans that facilitate the safe and effective execution of work. Develops timely schedules of the comprehensive job plans, ensuring the maximum use of maintenance manpower, availability of parts and minimized interruption to Production. The Planner must understand the concept of ’Doing the right work at the right time for the right reasons.’

The Planner is experienced and trained in planning and scheduling techniques, is a capable CMMS system and MS Office User and familiar with applying Standard Operating Procedures in his/her work. The Planner follows company policies, standards and guidelines as they apply to all activities.

The Planner is an experienced Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Specialist with at least 5 years of experience in applying proven Maintenance best practices in an industrial environment. A journeyman's ticket, PMP and/or related technical diploma are highly preferred.
The Planner has strong leadership and communication skills, works well in a team environment, is responsible and reliable, and is open to change. The person is very organized, structured, results oriented and quality driven.

Any MLF team member interested in being considered for this role are encouraged to apply online by September 08. Applications received beyond that date are not guaranteed consideration. Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life:

• Ensure the work prioritization process is adhered to.
• Review Work Requests for accuracy, duplication and convert to Work Orders.
• Prioritize corrective work derived from preventive maintenance (PM) work orders (WO) with high priority.
• Plan and schedule work requests originating in SAP that are not prioritized as an emergency or break-in work.
• Develop comprehensive, thorough maintenance job plans that facilitate the safe and effective execution of work.
• Determine the scope, general strategy (repair/replace) and coordination requirements of work.
• Create a scheduling horizon that is at least 4 weeks.
• Route non-emergency Work orders for approval at the correct organizational level against defined acceptance criteria based on the business risk.
• Create, use and maintain plant history and other technical files to include information in current job plans to anticipate and avoid job delays.
• Develop condition-based monitoring routes, load levels, and seed dates.
• Review, update and optimize PM routes and bills of materials (BOMs) in SAP.
• Maintain progress charting systems (Gantt charts, Flow diagrams) for the scheduling function.
• Develop Work Order standard jobs for repetitive work.
• Visit the site with the goal of increasing team productivity by removing all obstacles to executing the work safely, correctly and with minimum downtime and effort. Adopt the concept of eyes on the job and eyes on the parts.
• Work with stores to ensure the availability of parts / materials to execute work.
• Ensure the maximum use of maintenance manpower and minimize production disruptions.
• Lead scheduling meetings where Maintenance interventions are synchronized with Production according to business needs.
• Develop schedule loading and publish a 4-week horizon schedule with the understanding of manpower availability, operational requirements and a knowledge of time, cost and quality estimating.
• Lead post PM and completed Work Order quality reviews.
• Create appropriate equipment files to ensure timely updates with relevant maintenance and repair histories.
• Review and regularly update all maintenance backlogs.
• Provide technical assistance as required for maintenance personnel in executing the work.
• Monitor parts/materials…