Maintenance Planner

Job Overview:

The Maintenance Planner is a maintenance position that supports safe and cost effective manufacturing operations by competently scheduling planning and ensuring effective completion/documentation of proactive predictive preventive and scheduled corrective maintenance activities on all of the plants significant equipment assets. Qualified candidates must possess a thorough understanding of industrial manufacturing operations enterprise resource planning equipment maintenance requirements and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Always complies with Novolexes safety and environmental policies programs and procedures. These include but are not limited to lockout/tagout personal protective equipment ladder safety electrical safety machine shop/tool safety and powered vehicle safety.
• Ownership of CMMS asset hierarchy and preventive maintenance requirements. Includes all facilities production/support equipment and tooling.
• Daily ownership of CMMS work order flow scheduling and documentation. Includes assigning work orders to available maintenance resources reviewing completions status and closing work orders.
• Interact with all CMMS work requesters as required to clarify work order scope to help ensure proper and timely work order completion.
• Work closely with plant engineering maintenance production scheduling and contractors as required to plan schedule and execute all maintenance work except shift/emergency repairs in order to maximize equipment reliability and minimize cost/waste. Includes proactive predictive preventive and corrective maintenance.
• Work closely with the storeroom to organize planned work order packages into parts kits prior to the work orders scheduled completion date.
• Accurately estimate times and costs of maintenance work except shift/emergency repairs to include labor and parts/materials costs.
• Assist in the CMMS planning and execution of capital projects and equipment upgrades.
• Run a weekly CMMS planned maintenance scheduling meeting to include plant engineering maintenance and production resources as required to ensure efficacy.
• Utilize mean time between failure (MTBF) and root cause analysis problem solving techniques to drive continuous improvement.
• Work in a fast paced collaborative and lean manufacturing environment that encourages all employee to identify and permanently eliminate waste through effective use of the Novolex Business System.

Qualifications:

• High school graduate or equivalent required.
• 3 years of maintenance experience working with industrial production and/or support equipment such as electromechanical drive trains compressed air hydraulics vacuum and process water systems is required.
• Demonstrated experience working with a CMMS such as Maintenance Connection MP2 Maximo etc. is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience working with an SAP is preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency working with MS Office applications (Excel Outlook Word) is required.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills with all levels of the organization including contractors and vendors is required.
• Proactive and self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to schedule manage and complete multiple work assignments and projects concurrently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated proficiency reading/interpreting mechanical drawings is preferred.

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• Must be able to acquire and maintain a lift truck license within 60 days of hire/promotion.
• Able to safely lift up to 50 pounds.
• Able to safely work in a moderately conditioned industrial process manufacturing environment
• Non-traditional work schedules will be based on location needs or specific situations.
• Non-traditional work schedules will almost always be planned and coordinated in advance.
• This position is located in a manufacturing location

Physical Requirements/ Environmental/ Working Conditions:

• Able to safely work in a moderately conditioned industrial process manufacturing environment
• Must be able to frequently climb 10-40 steps and occasionally climb 5-10 ladder rungs.
• Able to work in differing temperatures