Maintenance Planner

firstquality; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

First Quality in Salt Lake City, UT is seeking a Maintenance Planner to improve workforce productivity by coordinating parts, machine time and labor. You will act as liaison between operations and maintenance, maintain records, and plan all maintenance work for the area.

The ideal candidate has a mechanical/electrical background, 10+ years of industrial maintenance experience, and familiarity with MP2, SAP or EAM.

Qualifications

• Mechanical/electrical background is required and technical school background or industrial engineering degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of industrial maintenance experience.
• Familiarity with CMMS such as MP2, SAP, or EAM.
• Ability to estimate labor hours, materials and visualize job execution.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as principal contact between Maintenance and plant.
• Review and screen work orders for completion and discuss details with requestor.
• Plan maintenance work schedule and coordinate with Operations Planning.
• Ensure availability of parts, materials, and tools before scheduling.
• Develop and maintain backlog files and ensure downtime windows are negotiated.
• Attend meetings and balance labor hours to provide full days of work.

Skills

Mechanical background

Electrical background

Planning

Multitasking

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Education

Industrial Engineering degree

Technical school background

Tools

MP2

SAP

EAM

Job description

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you'll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking a Maintenance Planner for our First Quality Home Care Products, LLC faciality located in Salt Lake City, UT. This position will be responsible for improving work force productivity and work quality by eliminating in advance potential delays and obstacles through proper planning and coordination of parts, machine time and labor.

The Planner/Scheduler is responsible for the planning and scheduling of all maintenance work performed in the area to which assigned. Acts as liaison and coordination between the operations and maintenance organizations; maintains appropriate records and files to permit meaningful analysis and reporting of results or work done.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Principal contact between the Maintenance department and the plant
• Receives all work orders from requesting departments, excepting emergency work
• Reviews and screens each work order for completion. Discusses the details with the requestor as appropriate
• Assures the work requested is needed and resolves appropriately
• Examines jobs to be done and determines best way to accomplish the work. Consults with requester, Maintenance Supervisor, Engineering or functional crews when necessary
• Obtains blueprints, drawings, instructional manuals and special procedures, as needed. Makes any additional sketches, diagrams, etc., necessary to clarify the intent of the work order.
• Identifies and obtains determinable materials and critical items, entering material needs on the work order
• Ensures safety needs are given a top priority in work planning
• Estimates jobs with sequence of steps, the number of tradespersons and required labor hours for each step
• Estimates cost of each work order in terms of direct labor, materials required and total cost.
• Maintains backlog files of work orders waiting planning and/or scheduling in accordance with their priority limits with an estimated completion date
• Verifies the availability of parts, materials and special tools required for job execution prior to scheduling
• Knowledge of each department's PM workload
• Reviews the schedule and labor availability forecasts daily
• Develops a maintenance work schedule for the maintenance area supervisor
• Attends meetings with the Operations Planning department and participates in the overall plant scheduling of the following week's work, and negotiates for downtime "windows" during which maintenance can be performed
• Finalizes schedules, ensuring that the work scheduled balances labor hours available so that a full day's work is provided each person. Establishes and maintains effective communications and partnerships with suppliers
• Other duties as requested

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Mechanical/electrical background necessary and technical school background or Industrial Engineering degree desired
• 10+ years of industrial maintenance experience required.
• Familiarity with computerized maintenance management systems, such as MP2, SAP, or EAM preferred.
• Adequate trade knowledge to estimate labor hours, materials and visualize job execution
• Good oral/written communication skills
• Good administrative and mathematical skills
• Working knowledge of computers in a reasonable training period
• Good planning, organizational and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to understand what constitutes good instructions
• Able to read blueprints and shop drawings
• Sketching ability
• Understanding of the proper use of work orders, priorities, scheduling, etc.
• Orientation and commitment to customer service
• Ability to communicate/teach reliability best practices, condition monitoring, precision methods

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receiv