Maintenance Planner

NCBiotech; Clayton (NC); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Grifols is seeking a Maintenance Planner - Electrical and Instrumentation to enhance maintenance planning across a global healthcare setting. The role focuses on analyzing work orders for exact scope, ensuring resource readiness, and scheduling to reduce downtime.

You will work with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and plant performance. You’ll develop detailed job plans, maintain equipment files, and monitor metrics such as schedule compliance and backlog aging.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of plant safety, environmental and cGMP requirements related to maintenance work.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong problem solving skills with ability to plan corrective methods.

Responsibilities

• Review and prioritize maintenance work orders with detailed work plans.
• Develop job standards and ensure compliance with safety requirements.
• Maintain equipment files with bills of material and technical info.
• Lead cross functional planning meetings and coordinate with production schedules.
• Develop metrics on schedule compliance, planning accuracy, backlog aging and budget compliance.
• Optimize preventative maintenance plans with input from technicians and engineers.
• Coordinate with Storeroom on stock levels and capital spares.
• Prepare detailed schedules for maintenance supervisors and six-week forward plan.
• Track progress of maintenance and engineering work for shutdowns using critical path methods.
• Create site shutdown schedules and cost estimates; lead shutdown planning meetings.
• Define maintenance best practices and drive reliability improvements.

Skills

Safety compliance

cGMP knowledge

Communication skills

Microsoft Office

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Technical Field

Tools

CMMS experience

Job description

Would you like to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to enhance the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. We are leaders in plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine and develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 110 countries and regions.

Summary:

The Maintenance Planner - Electrical and Instrumentation maximizes the efficiency of maintenance work performed by ensuring that work orders have been thoroughly analyzed to determine the exact scope of the job. Ensures that the necessary resources have been identified and are staged and ready for job execution before scheduling and starting work. Lowers site maintenance costs, improving equipment reliability and uptime.

Primary responsibilities for role (level-specific responsibilities should be included in the chart below):

• Ensures all accepted work orders are reviewed, prioritized, and have a detailed work plan consisting of the required manpower, duration, safety procedures, tools, materials, equipment, and specifications.
• Creates job plans for maintenance work orders that include craft skills, parts, tools, equipment, information, permits, and expertise (internal, external, equipment) required. Develops job standards to ensure work is performed within acceptable and optimal limits and meets all safety and compliance requirements.
• Creates and maintains equipment files with standard job packages, including accurate and complete bills of material and any relevant technical information to ensure continual improvement of planned work execution.
• Chairs and facilitates routine cross functional planning meetings with assigned business unit to review Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) backlog and verify work priorities for the upcoming weekly schedule. Coordinates upcoming maintenance work with the production schedule to ensure access to equipment at the agreed upon time.
• Develops, maintains, and reports on metrics relevant to the planning process, such as schedule compliance, planning accuracy, backlog aging, and budgetary compliance.
• Optimizes the plant Preventative Maintenance program by evaluating task lists, part requirements, and frequencies, with input from maintenance technicians, supervisors, and area engineers.
• Coordinates with Storeroom Manager on decisions to send components out for refurbishment, minimum/maximum stock levels, addition and removal of items from stock, creation of job kits, and requests for capital spares.
• Develops daily and weekly detailed schedules for maintenance supervisor. Develops six week forward plan.
• Develops detailed schedules and tracks progress of all maintenance and engineering work to be executed during extended shut-downs in assigned areas using Critical Path Method tools.
• Develops site shutdown schedule and detailed cost estimates for shutdown activities. Facilitates shutdown planning meetings and daily meetings during the shutdown period.
• Executes maintenance work flows for new equipment including identification of spare parts, job plans and preventive maintenance tasks.
• Identifies and implements maintenance procedure, process, and equipment reliability improvements.
• Makes independent decisions within defined areas of responsibility.

Additional Responsibilities

• Makes independent decisions within his/her defined areas of responsibility.
• Provides the means to improve the efficiency of maintenance resources, lower maintenance costs, and improves plant reliability and uptime.
• Decides which recurring maintenance problems merit a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FEMA) or other reliability assessment.
• Brings off-target key performance indicators (KPIs) back into acceptable ranges.
• Monitors resources needed to manage backlog such as contractors, overtime, etc..

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of plant safety, environmental, and current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements related to maintenance work.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent computer skills with experience with Microsoft Office software.
• Strong problem solving skills. Ability to identify errors and plan corrective methods.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical or related field.

Equivalency

• Depending on the area of assignment, directly related experience or a combination of directly related education and experience and/or competencies may be considered in place of the stated requirements. Example: If a job level requires a Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of experience, an equivalency could include 8 years of experience, an Associate’s degree with 6 years of experience, or a Master’s degree with 2 years of experience.

Occupational Demands

• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment. May occasionally enter BioRisk Area. Exposure to biological fluids with potential exposure to infectious organisms. May be exposed to noisy, warm, or cold environments checking work scopes. Personal protective equipment required such as protective eyewear, garments and gloves. Frequently sits for 6-8 hours per day. Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Occasionally walks and stands. Occasionally bends and twists neck. Light to moderate lifting and carrying objects with a maximum lift of 25lbs. Frequently drives to site locations with occasional travel within the United States. Able to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken and written words and sentences. Interacts with others, relates sensitive information to diverse groups. Must work with diverse groups to obtain consensus on issues.

This job description is intended to present the general content and requirements for the performance of this job. The description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. Managers and supervisors may assign other duties as needed.

Grifols provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws.

Location: NORTH AMERICA : USA : NC-Clayton:USNC0002 - Clayton

Learn more about Grifols (https://www.grifols.com/en/what-we-do)

Req ID: 544673

Type: Regular Full-Time

Job Category: ENGINEERING / MAINTENANCE