Maintenance Planner

Summary: The Maintenance Planner at New-Indy Oxnard is responsible for the safe and efficient planning of all maintenance work activities in their areas.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Embed safety into every job plan identifying hazards and required permits (LOTO confined space hot work) and documenting safety requirements.
• Review approved work orders for completeness return incomplete requests and maintain a clean prioritized planning backlog.
• Perform field walk-downs to define scope labor materials tools access requirements and operational constraints.
• Develop detailed job plans including scope job steps labor estimates crafts parts tools support equipment drawings manuals and photos.
• Prepare complete job packages and ensure all work reaches Ready-to-Work status before scheduling.
• Provide labor estimates and craft requirements to support realistic scheduling.
• Identify stock and non-stock material requirements create purchase requisitions improve Bills of Material (BOMs) and partner with the storeroom to improve inventory accuracy.
• Maintain a 23 week planning horizon lead weekly planning meetings and participate in scheduling meetings.
• Collect execution feedback and continuously improve job plans PMs estimates and BOMs to reduce rework and increase wrench time.
• Support reliability initiatives RCAs engineering documentation vendors/OEMs shutdown planning and critical maintenance events.
• Maintain high-quality CMMS (Maximo) data and ensure work orders are properly updated and closed.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job is not a supervisory position.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering industrial technology or related field or equivalent maintenance planning experience.
• Minimum 4 years in heavy industrial maintenance.

Other skills:

• Excellent written verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Suite with strong aptitude for Projects
• Strong understanding of computerized maintenance management systems such as Maximo.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Basic mechanical knowledge and aptitude
• Must be able to work independently
• Well-developed people practice including strong interpersonal skills the ability to build lasting relationships provide recognition and demonstrate integrity and high personal standards.
• Competencies: Detail Orientated Command Skills Mechanical or Electrical Aptitude Managerial Courage Problem Solving Organizational Skill

Physical Demands:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee may be required to:
  • Sit at a desk for long periods of time or sit while driving a car
  • Frequently use hands to type on a computer keyboard answer the telephone and file documents
  • Frequently walk within the office and occasionally the distance of a large manufacturing facility
  • Occasionally reach with hands and arms above the shoulders
  • Vision abilities required are close vision and depth perception

Work Environment:

• The noise level within the office is usually quiet and the temperature is regulated to be comfortable.
• Occasionally the employee is exposed to the Mill work environment which can be hot and the noise level is loud.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud (80dB).
• Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions
• Occasionally exposed to loud moving equipment

Employees are required to wear Personal Protective Equipment PPE such as: hard hat steel toed boots gloves safety glasses and hearing protection.