Maintenance Planner II - Ridgeway

Maintenance Planner

Isola, an industry leader in global materials sciences whose mission is to improve life by enabling innovation in electronic products, is hiring a Maintenance Planner at our Ridgeway, SC facility.

The Maintenance Planner II is responsible for SAP planning/scheduling, and inventory management in our Maintenance department. The selected individual will also work closely with our Supply chain Administrator and fill-in as necessary, ensuring effective execution of all maintenance work control processes. Reports directly to the Maintenance Manager to drive towards continuous production by planning/scheduling PM's and managing inventory resources required to conduct maintenance activities.

The Maintenance Planning and Procurement officer is a vital role in plant-wide continuous improvement.

A collaborative teammate, you enjoy working with others and utilizing strong partnerships (internal and external) to achieve the best outcome

A task-oriented teammate, you find deep satisfaction from independently checking things off your to do list

A strategist, you never make a decision without considering the overall impact

Top responsibilities include:

• Approach all aspects of work being performed with safety as the highest priority
• Works with the Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Lead, Operations and Engineering to determine resource availability to complete critical PM's, requests, breakdowns, tasks, and completed in a timely manner. Schedules meetings as required to implement activities as required.
• Create PM's and make improvements using technical manuals along with input from technicians for improved uptime metrics and equipment throughput.
• Monitor, prioritize, schedule and assign work order requests to technicians as needed to minimize downtime
• Develops a work force schedule by technician to see that skills, resources and availability are met to complete work as assigned
• Escalates issues with Maintenance Manager, EHS, Engineering and Operations work that is of the highest priority such as compliance, safety or environmental related.
• Manage PM priorities, work orders and breakdowns using SAP
• Identify, quote, and submit purchase requisitions required to obtain parts/items required to perform repairs of equipment and facility.
• Must be able to link cost of parts to each individual asset in the facility with purchasing spare parts.
• Must be highly proficient with SAP software.
• Keep accurate records and metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and provide facilities manager reports in a timely manner.
• Works with purchasing to see that critical spare parts are stocked with proper min/max levels needed to keep facility running at optimal levels and reducing cost thru tracking history and reducing cost.
• Ability to coach and work well with diverse work force driving increased PM quality and Work order completion and closeout time.
• Coordinates Maintenance and Operations L1/L2 autonomous maintenance activities at equipment to engage operators
• Helps drive TPM by operations for improved uptime and efficiencies.
• Dispatch/assign PM's to Maintenance technicians
• Assist in plant shut down operations by obtaining parts, supplies, and materials before the scheduled stop of production.
• Identify repetitive failures/repairs and adjust PM activities in coordination with Sr. Maintenance lead and Maintenance Manager
• Conducts 6S projects within the maintenance department to organize and sort inventory.

Qualifications include:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Previous experience in purchasing maintenance items preferred.
• Previous experience using a PC.
• SAP Plant Maintenance strongly preferred
• ISO 9001 Certification-preferred