Maintenance Planner

First Quality King of Prussia PA; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary and bonus

Paid time off

Medical, dental and vision starting on

401(k) with employer match

Paid parental leave

Tuition assistance

Wellness program with premium savings

Job summary

First Quality is seeking a Maintenance Planner for the Salt Lake City plant. The role focuses on coordinating maintenance work, screening work orders, and ensuring safety and efficiency in planning and scheduling. The ideal candidate brings a strong mechanical/electrical background and extensive CMMS experience with MP2, SAP, or EAM.

Join a family-owned company delivering quality products and a commitment to professional development, with competitive pay, benefits, and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Mechanical or electrical background with technical schooling or degree
• Over 10 years of industrial maintenance experience
• Familiarity with CMMS like MP2, SAP or EAM
• Ability to estimate labor hours, materials and plan execution
• Strong communication and mathematical skills
• Proficient reading blueprints and shop drawings
• Ability to mentor others on reliability best practices

Responsibilities

• Principal liaison between the Maintenance department and the plant.
• Receives and screens work orders; ensures necessity of work.
• Estimating labor hours, materials and costs for each job.
• Develops and adjusts maintenance schedules with planners.
• Coordinates with departments to ensure parts availability.
• Maintains backlogs and communicates schedules to teams.

Skills

Mechanical/Electrical background

Industrial maintenance experience

Blueprint reading

Planning and organizational skills

Education

Technical school background or Industrial Engineering degree

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.

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

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

At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical, dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums ...and more!

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.

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.