Maintenance Planner
Maintenance Planner
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Job Description
Founded over 35 years ago First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan Pennsylvania into a group of companies employing over 5000 team memberswhile maintaining ourfamilyvalues and entrepreneurialspirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada the companies within the First Qualitygroup produce high-quality personal care and household products forlargeretailers and healthcareorganizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers wipes feminine pads paper towels bath tissue adult incontinence products laundry detergents fabric finishers and dishwash addition we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products including flexible print and packaging solutions.
Guided by our values of humility unity and integrity we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality youll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning professional development and our mission to Make Things Better.
We are seeking a Maintenance Planner for our First Quality Home Care Products LLC faciality located in Salt Lake City UT. This position will be responsible for improving work force productivity and work quality by eliminating in advance potential delays and obstacles through proper planning and coordination of parts machine time and labor.
The Planner/Scheduler is responsible for the planning and scheduling of all maintenance work performed in the area to which assigned. Acts as liaison and coordination between the operations and maintenance organizations; maintains appropriate records and files to permit meaningful analysis and reporting of results or work done.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Principal contact between the Maintenance department and the plant
- Receives all work orders from requesting departments excepting emergency work
- Reviews and screens each work order for completion. Discusses the details with the requestor as appropriate
- Assures the work requested is needed and resolves appropriately
- Examines jobs to be done and determines best way to accomplish the work. Consults with requester Maintenance Supervisor Engineering or functional crews when necessary
- Obtains blueprints drawings instructional manuals and special procedures as needed. Makes any additional sketches diagrams etc. necessary to clarify the intent of the work order.
- Identifies and obtains determinable materials and critical items entering material needs on the work order
- Ensures safety needs are given a top priority in work planning
- Estimates jobs with sequence of steps the number of tradespersons and required labor hours for each step
- Estimates cost of each work order in terms of direct labor materials required and total cost.
- Maintains backlog files of work orders waiting planning and/or scheduling in accordance with their priority limits with an estimated completion date
- Verifies the availability of parts materials and special tools required for job execution prior to scheduling
- Knowledge of each departments PM workload
- Reviews the schedule and labor availability forecasts daily
- Develops a maintenance work schedule for the maintenance area supervisor
- Attends meetings with the Operations Planning department and participates in the overall plant scheduling of the following weeks work and negotiates for downtime windows during which maintenance can be performed
- Finalizes schedules ensuring that the work scheduled balances labor hours available so that a full days work is provided each person. Establishes and maintains effective communications and partnerships with suppliers
- Other duties as requested
The ideal candidate should possess the following:
- Mechanical/electrical background necessary and technical school background or Industrial Engineering degree desired
- 10 years of industrial maintenance experience required.
- Familiarity with computerized maintenance management systems such as MP2 SAP or EAM preferred.
- Adequate trade knowledge to estimate labor hours materials and visualize job execution
- Good oral/written communication skills
- Good administrative and mathematical skills
- Working knowledge of computers in a reasonable training period
- Good planning organizational and multi-tasking skills
- Ability to understand what constitutes good instructions
- Able to read blueprints and shop drawings
- Sketching ability
- Understanding of the proper use of work orders priorities scheduling etc.
- Orientation and commitment to customer service
- Ability to communicate/teach reliability best practices condition monitoring precision methods
What We Offer You
We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:
- Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
- Paid time off (three-week minimum)
- Medical dental and vision starting day one
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
- Bundle of joy benefit (years worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
- Tuition assistance
- Wellness program with savings of up to $4000 per year on insurance premiums
- ...and more!
First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who as a result of their role specifications may come in to contact with sensitive data.
First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability sexual orientation gender identification or protected Veteran status.
Employment Type
Full-Time
