Maintenance Planner
Malvern, PA - USA
Job Summary
JoinReynolds Consumer Productsand Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting dynamic fast-paced and high-performance organization. If you are looking to build a strong career we have an opportunity for you! We currently have an opportunity for aMaintenance Plannerto join our team located in Hot Springs AR.
Your Role:
The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning preparing and optimizing maintenance work to support safe reliable and cost-effective operation of plant assets. This position serves as a key member of the Work Execution Management (WEM) process and is accountable for work order quality job plan development backlog management material readiness preventive maintenance optimization and maintenance work readiness.
The Maintenance Planner works closely with Maintenance Supervisors Operations Engineering Reliability Scheduling and Storeroom personnel to ensure maintenance work is fully defined planned and prepared before execution. The role supports the continuous improvement of asset reliability maintenance productivity and maintenance execution effectiveness through disciplined planning and work management practices.
You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!
Work Planning and Preparation
- Develop detailed maintenance job plans for corrective preventive predictive condition-based and project maintenance activities.
- Plan work based on priorities established by the Maintenance Area Supervisor and Area Team.
- Own release-to-schedule readiness for all planned maintenance work orders.
- Develop complete work packages including labor estimates craft requirements tools materials permits safety requirements procedures and contractor support requirements.
- Utilize craft knowledge engineering resources OEM documentation equipment history and field inspections to develop accurate and effective maintenance job plans.
- Maintain strong knowledge of systems equipment and manufacturing processes within assigned areas of responsibility.
- Support outage planning by defining work scope sequencing activities identifying constraints and assisting in critical path planning.
CMMS and Backlog Management
- Review the maintenance backlog daily to ensure work orders are accurately defined prioritized and maintained within the CMMS.
- Verify work requests contain appropriate descriptions asset assignments priorities and scope definitions.
- Remove duplicate work orders and improve overall backlog quality.
- Generate work requests for equipment requiring corrective maintenance when identified during routine activities.
- Maintain a minimum of two weeks of fully planned ready-to-schedule non-PM backlog within assigned areas.
- Maintain equipment history job plans and planning documentation within the CMMS.
- Support continuous improvement of CMMS data quality and work management processes.
Reliability and Maintenance Strategy
- Support reliability improvement initiatives through development and optimization of preventive maintenance (PM) condition-based maintenance (CBM) and predictive maintenance programs.
- Optimize PM job plans utilizing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles and criticality-based decision making.
- Develop standard job plans PM procedures CBM tasks standard work instructions and maintenance documentation.
- Analyze condition monitoring and predictive maintenance reports and generate follow-up work orders as required.
- Track CBM program effectiveness and support efforts to reduce equipment failures downtime and maintenance costs.
- Assist with asset reliability improvement projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
Material Readiness and Kitting
- Ensure frequently used spare parts are established and maintained within the storeroom inventory.
- Identify and coordinate procurement of required non-stock materials and services for planned work.
- Develop and stage maintenance kits for work where material readiness is critical to execution success.
- Verify kit completeness and readiness before scheduled maintenance activities and outages.
- Ensure all required materials special tools permits drawings procedures and documentation are available before work is released for scheduling.
- Maintain organized and efficient kitting and staging areas that support maintenance execution efficiency.
Work Readiness and Scheduling Support
- Participate in Gemba walks and readiness reviews for critical maintenance activities.
- Participate in pre-job walkthroughs to validate scope safety requirements access requirements labor estimates and material readiness.
- Review published schedules and verify planned work has appropriate labor and resource allocation.
- Collaborate with Maintenance Supervisors Schedulers Operations Engineering and Reliability personnel to ensure successful execution of scheduled work.
- Provide planning support for outages shutdowns and major maintenance activities.
- Support schedule compliance initiatives by identifying constraints and readiness gaps before execution.
Maintenance Execution Support
- Provide planning and technical support during execution of critical maintenance activities.
- Assist maintenance teams in resolving work execution barriers and readiness issues.
- Perform job plan audits during maintenance execution to verify accuracy of scope procedures labor estimates materials and safety requirements.
- Coordinate contractor activities associated with planned maintenance work as assigned.
- Verify work quality supports safe equipment operation and long-term asset reliability.
- Support equipment startup and return-to-service activities following planned outages and major maintenance events.
Work Order Closeout and Continuous Improvement
- Ensure work orders overseen by the planner are properly finalized and closed in accordance with plant work management standards.
- Capture execution feedback and incorporate improvements into future job plans and maintenance procedures.
- Update job plans bills of materials labor estimates and maintenance documentation based on actual execution results.
- Update shift narratives maintenance reports and outage documentation as required.
- Participate in root cause analyses (RCA) corrective action development and reliability investigations.
- Develop maintain and improve standard operating procedures one-point lessons and maintenance best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on maintenance productivity schedule compliance reliability and equipment availability.
Safety Leadership and Team Participation
- Ensure all planned work complies with Reynolds safety standards environmental requirements regulatory requirements and company policies.
- Participate in and support daily weekly outage and area team meetings.
- Support emergency breakdown events after stabilization by providing equipment knowledge job plans repair procedures material identification and technical planning assistance.
- Promote a culture of safety accountability reliability and continuous improvement.
- Serve as backup for WEM Supervisors and other maintenance leadership positions as assigned.
- Support contractor safety and compliance requirements during maintenance activities.
You will love it here if
- You put safety first always
- You listen learn and evolve
- You are passionate about collaboration teamwork and achieving shared goals
- You treat all people with respect operating ethically and embrace inclusivity
- You are committed to improving our impact on local communities
We need you to have:
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering Engineering Technology Industrial Technology Maintenance Management or related technical discipline preferred.
- Equivalent combination of education and manufacturing maintenance experience may be considered.
- 5 years of maintenance reliability planning scheduling engineering or supervisory experience within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience in a union manufacturing environment preferred.
- Experience utilizing Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
- Experience developing maintenance job plans outage plans work packages and maintenance procedures.
- Strong knowledge of Work Execution Management (WEM) processes and maintenance best practices.
- Working knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
- Knowledge of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) Predictive Maintenance (PdM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
- Strong understanding of maintenance materials management inventory control and kitting processes.
- Experience utilizing maintenance KPIs including schedule compliance PM compliance backlog health equipment availability and maintenance productivity.
- Proficiency with CMMS systems Microsoft Office applications and maintenance reporting tools.
- Strong organizational analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent written verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Operations Engineering Maintenance Reliability Purchasing and Contractor personnel.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
If you answer yes to the followingwe want to meet you!
- Intellectual Curiosity: Do you have an inquisitive nature
- Problem Solving: Do you have a knack for tackling issues head-on
- Entrepreneurship: Do you enjoy taking ownership of your work
- Customer Centricity: Do you always act in the best interests of the customer putting their needs first
- Growth Mindset: Do you focus on progress rather than perfection
- Continuous Improvement: Are you never satisfied with the status quo
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About Company
Two of the most trusted household brands, Reynolds and Hefty, joined together as Reynolds Consumer Products in 2010. These trusted products have been found side-by-side in the kitchens of American families for more than three generations. The creation of both the Reynolds and Hefty ... View more