Corporate Maintenance Planner

Silfab Solar; Burlington (IA); On-site; USD 78,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Corporate Maintenance Planner to enhance maintenance operations across multiple sites. This role involves coordinating maintenance activities, implementing preventative maintenance plans, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and analytical skills, along with a background in engineering or project management. Join a dynamic team dedicated to optimizing equipment reliability and minimizing downtime, while enjoying competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Benefits

Paid Time Off

401(k) Retirement Plan

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Recognition Programs

Employee PV Panel Purchase Program

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field and 5+ years of planning experience required.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate maintenance activities and optimize processes across multiple sites.
• Implement preventative maintenance plans and generate performance reports.
• Act as liaison between maintenance and operations for effective communication.

Skills

Effective communication

Self-directed work

Process improvement

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

CMMS software knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Time management

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or Project Management

5 years of planning experience in manufacturing

Tools

CMMS systems

MS Office Suite

Job description

Job Description

Summary of Position

The Corporate Maintenance Planner is responsible for coordinating and optimizing maintenance activities across multiple sites within the organization. The Corporate Maintenance Planner is also responsible for implementing preventative maintenance plans, ensuring efficient communication between maintenance and operations, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment reliability and minimize downtime.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Support New Projects by implementing new equipment PMs and introduce into CMMS.
• Understand the job well enough to describe what needs to be accomplished, estimate labor hours, tools, and resources needed to complete different work orders.
• Standardized and prepare preventative maintenance plans and schedules that are in sync with the organization’s maintenance goals across all sites.
• Act as the primary liaison person between maintenance and operations.
• Lead communication between maintenance and other internal beneficiaries of maintenance work to ensure that everyone receives timely, efficient, and quality service.
• Coordinate planned downtimes to reduce meantime between failures and minimize interference with production schedule.
• Minimize the number of interruptions once work begins.
• Support the sites in establishing Maintenance Workforce Job Goals and objectives.
• Support Sites with consolidating spare parts to minimize inventory.
• Leading global updates to CMMS.
• Provide constant training to all sites on CMMS.
• Administrator for all changes that take place across sites in CMMS.
• Lead continuous improvement ideas on Preventative Maintenance Tasks.
• Ensure compliance with controlled document process.
• Keeper of all maintenance records across all sites.
• Utilizing CMMS data, generate weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for each site on Maintenance KPIs.
• Generate dashboards highlighting equipment maintenance status (i.e. MTBF, MTTR, Availability, PM Completion, etc.).
• Silfab Total Preventative Maintenance Champion.

Additional Requirements:

• Able to travel throughout Canada and USA 20% of the time.

Qualifications:

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in a self-directed manner and provide direction to others.
• Ability to recognize opportunities for process improvements and assist with implementing them.
• Computer skills in MS Office Platform (i.e. Excel, Power Point, etc.) and knowledge of various CMMS software.
• Extensive working knowledge of CMMS systems.

Traits

• Ability to work cross-functionally.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under time constraints.
• Strong attention to detail, precise, problem-solving, and time management skills.
• Development and performance.
• Excellent analytical skills with attention to detail.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of practical related planning experience within a high-volume fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Compensation and Benefits

• $78,000 - $82,000/year DOE
• Paid Time Off (vacation, sick, and holiday)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance Plans
• Health Savings Account option
• Supplemental/Voluntary Insurance Plans
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee Recognition Programs
• Employee PV Panel Purchase Program