Maintenance Planner

BG Foods; Ankeny (IA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BG Foods in Ankeny, IA is seeking a Maintenance Planner to drive preventive maintenance planning, prioritize work orders, and advise on critical issues to keep production lines running. You will collaborate with Maintenance and Production teams, review daily schedules, prepare materials, maintain planner libraries, and help optimize the PM program while ensuring food safety.

Strong communication, organizational and data-analysis skills are required, along with CMMS and MS Office knowledge and a

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent technical experience required.
• Solid CMMS knowledge and experience with related software.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Outlook for reporting and scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Drive preventive maintenance planning and prioritize work orders.
• Advise Maintenance Manager on critical issues and advance planning.
• Collaborate with Maintenance and Production teams to meet daily needs.
• Review daily production schedules to ensure efficient changeovers and testing.
• Assess work orders, determine scope, assign tasks, prioritizing safety.
• Identify materials needed and prepare supplies for technicians.
• Maintain planner libraries and prepared job packages for recurring work.
• Use labor and material data to support planning of new jobs.
• Perform post-job reviews and adjust PM programs based on results.
• Provide reports on labor, parts, and trends to management.
• Enforce food safety/quality policies and report issues accordingly.
• Promote a safe working environment and report unsafe conditions.

Skills

Communication skills

People skills

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Data analysis

Trend analysis

Troubleshooting

OSHA safety

Driver's license

Education

Associate degree in a technical field

CMMS systems knowledge

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

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Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for continuous improvement of preventive maintenance planning and prioritizing work order completion.
• Advise Maintenance Manager of all critical issues and assists in advance planning to prevent issues.
• Routinely interacts, communicates and collaborates with Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Purchasing, Maintenance Forepersons, Maintenance Technicians, Production Manager and/or Production Supervisors to meet needs of plant operations on daily basis.
• Review production schedule daily with Maintenance Manager, Supervisor and Leads to ensure lines are changed over, setup and tested at the earliest opportunity.
• Receives and examines all work orders to be done and determines scope and best way to accomplish workload and assign accordingly, ensuring safety work orders take precedence.
• Identifies and obtains materials required on the work orders and has prepared for assigned technician.
• Develops and maintains planner reference systems (library) including a file of planned job packages for recurring jobs.
• Equipment and process specific labor and material information within the library are used to simplify the planning of new jobs.
• Performs post job reviews to ensure actual work performed and post maintenance testing was adequate; identify changes needed to PM program (based on activity results) and/or changes to equipment design and/or inventory management practices to optimize the overall maintenance process.
• Provides Maintenance Manager with supporting reports of labor usage, parts and material usage, trending documentation, etc.
• Ensures food safety/quality polices are followed, report all food safety/quality problems out of his/her realm of responsibility to proper authority to initiate corrective actions.
• Reports all unsafe acts and unsafe working conditions to supervision/management immediately.
• Promotes a safe working environment.

Skills & Abilities

• Possess strong written, verbal and people skills.
• Ability to support the improvement of plant reliability and the move from reactive to proactive maintenance work.
• Possess strong organizational skills and analytical skills with proficiencies in data analysis and trend analysis.
• Fast troubleshooting and resolution skills with ability to manage multiple tasks with shifting priorities.
• Strong understanding of OSHA safety practices and procedures.
• Possess a valid driver’s license.

Education

• Associate degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of CMMS systems and related systems/software.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft applications (Excel, Outlook)

Equal Employment Opportunity

B&G Foods is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process should contact Human Resources. For more information on your federal rights, please review the EEOC’s Know Your Rights: Workplace Discretion is illegal poster at https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

With our headquarters based in Parsippany, New Jersey, B&G Foods and our subsidiaries manufacture, sell and distribute high-quality, branded shelf-stable and frozen foods across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

With B&G Foods’ diverse portfolio of more than 50 brands you know and love, including B&G, B&M, Cream of Wheat, Clabber Girl, Crisco, Dash, Green Giant, Las Palmas, Le Sueur, Mama Mary's, Maple Grove Farms, New York Style, Ortega, Polaner, Spice Islands and Victoria, there’s a little something for everyone.

For more information about B&G Foods and our brands, please visit www.bgfoods.com.