Maintenance Planner

WillHire; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in nuclear medicine is seeking a skilled Maintenance Planner to ensure optimal operation of production and facilities equipment. This role involves planning and scheduling maintenance activities, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in maintenance planning and a broad technical knowledge base, including electrical and mechanical systems. Join a team that is dedicated to transforming lives through innovative therapies and making a significant impact in the fight against cancer. Your expertise will help drive operational excellence and contribute to groundbreaking advancements in medical science.

Qualifications

• 4 years of experience in a manufacturing environment or 8 years in maintenance planning.
• Broad exposure to electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic controls.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule maintenance and calibration work for production and facilities equipment.
• Manage vendor activities and ensure compliance with safety and quality regulations.

Skills

Maintenance Planning

Electrical Controls

Mechanical Controls

Pneumatic Controls

Root Cause Failure Analysis

Reliability Centered Maintenance

Statistical Reporting

Vendor Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Relevant Area

8 Years Relevant Experience

Tools

CMMS Blue Mountain

Microsoft Office

SAP S4HANA

Power BI

Job description

Job Description Summary

At Advanced Accelerator Applications, a Novartis company, we are committed to leading innovation in nuclear medicine and delivering the next generation of targeted radioligand therapy to cancer patients. We are looking for experienced Maintenance & Calibration professionals to help us reach our ambitious goals.

Location: Onsite

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning and scheduling maintenance and calibration work for all Production, Engineering, and Facilities equipment and instrumentation at a Radio-Biopharmaceutical processing site.

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

1. CMMS Blue Mountain expertise in creating equipment records, developing maintenance work plans and scheduling work to coincide with the production schedule. This will include verification of assets, workplans, and calibrations from new equipment onsite in addition to existing equipment.
2. Provides technical support for Maintenance resources and Reliability Maintenance teams via KPI and non-conformance patterns reporting. Provides regular statistical reporting to the management team and stakeholders showing quantified evidence of the productive use of the workforce.
3. Accountable for contracted vendor management of site calibration and PM activities for Production, Engineering and Facilities equipment. This includes, but is not limited to:
1. New vendor additions to the Approved Suppliers List working with Supplier Quality.
2. Scheduling vendor activity by requesting Quotations for review, confirming scope, and initiating the PO process working with Site Maintenance Lead and Procurement.
3. Scheduling and Managing vendors onsite with Maintenance and Facilities support through execution.
4. Sending equipment out for off-site calibrations and ensuring timely return to maintain CMMS schedule.
5. Assuring onsite vendors are properly registered with security before arrival and receive any needed training/orientation while onsite before work begins.
6. Arranges work areas for vendors onsite as needed with Maintenance and Facilities teams.
4. Assumes responsibility for spare parts management, PM kitting, ordering, and receipt within budgeted plan.
5. Assumes accountability for special projects as assigned.
6. Accountable for deployment and sustainability of site maintenance programs. Updates SOP’s as needed to enhance functionality within the local maintenance processes and conformance with global maintenance processes.
7. Ensures compliance with all regulations, people safety, and product quality.
8. Ensures adequate levels of technical expertise to maintain an effective operation.
9. Participates in the business planning and budgeting processes.
10. Develops short and long-term cost containment/reduction strategies.
11. Effectively works with plant production scheduling, operations, and other contracted services to achieve business goals.
12. Works with Supervisors to coordinate, communicate, and interprets policies for technicians to ensure that maintenance work is thoroughly planned, scheduled, scoped, estimated, and are properly staffed and implemented in accordance to plan.
13. Maintains an understanding of the department's strengths, weaknesses, and resources, identifying potential organizational problems and opportunities. Communicate and reinforce roles and responsibilities of the team and how they support Company/Plant/Department strategies.
14. Analyzes work orders by duration, urgency, skill set, location, complexity, and available manpower; and assist operations teams by issuing work orders in a sequential flow to individual technicians or work teams.
15. Detailed understanding of the Maintenance Plans and ability to execute WO’s if needed.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in relevant area with 4 years’ experience in a relevant manufacturing environment or 8 years of relevant Maintenance Planning experience in lieu of degree.
2. Broad exposure to several technical disciplines: Electrical, Mechanical, and Pneumatic controls, aseptic environmental controls, Laminar air flow, pressure cascades and monitoring, aseptic environmental tooling and materials used such as lubricants, sanitization agents, cleaning products.
3. Experience working in Grade A, B, C, and D classified rooms and isolators.
4. Maintenance experience in a technical capacity with biopharmaceutical processing equipment including: Production Isolators and ancillary systems, synthesis modules, vial dispensing equipment, sterility isolators, EMS systems, VHP/O2 monitoring, HEPA filtration, VHP generators, Viable and Non-viable particle counters, qualified utilities.
5. Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and other applicable computer software.
6. Expertise with CMMS Maintenance and Materials Management functionality.
7. Experience in developing maintenance plans for both preventive and predictive maintenance.
8. Experience in Reliability Centered Maintenance Techniques and application to manufacturing equipment.
9. Extensive experience in Root Cause Failure Analysis techniques and application.
10. Experience participating in the budget process (creation and delivery).
11. Preferred experience with SAP S4HANA.
12. Preferred experience with Power BI.
13. Preferred experience with e-Crib spares management.

Why Advanced Accelerator Applications?
Thousands of people die of cancer around the world every day. At Advanced Accelerator Applications, a Novartis company, our mission is to transform lives through radioligand therapy in nuclear medicine to fight several leading types of cancer. How will we continue to be on the cutting edge of medicine? We believe new groundbreaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working. We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying! Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Novartis embraces diversity, equal opportunity, and inclusion. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.

EEO Statement:
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