Maintenance Planner

Ellwood Texas Forge Houston; Town of Texas, Houston (WI, TX); On-site; USD 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Maintenance Planner to enhance plant operations and equipment reliability. This pivotal role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure efficient maintenance practices, optimizing spare parts management, and supporting safety initiatives. The Maintenance Planner will utilize their expertise in CMMS to analyze and schedule maintenance activities effectively, contributing to improved productivity and reduced costs. If you are passionate about maintenance excellence and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance planning and scheduling in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong analytical skills to optimize maintenance processes.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and schedule maintenance work orders using CMMS.
• Prepare job packages and manage spare parts inventories.

Skills

CMMS

Preventive Maintenance

Root Cause Analysis

Scheduling

Vendor Relations

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field

Certifications in Maintenance Planning

Tools

CMMS Software

Job description

Description

Summary

The Maintenance Planner holds a key position in the Plant Maintenance Department. The Maintenance Department is responsible for maintaining equipment and facilities to promote improved equipment uptime, safe working conditions, and efficient plant operation. The Maintenance Planner collaborates with plant associates, corporate engineering, contractors, and OEMs to ensure effective maintenance is planned, performed, and documented.

The Maintenance Planner directly contributes to important plant goals such as increasing labor safety and productivity, reducing maintenance costs, and improving equipment reliability. This is achieved by preparing detailed job plans, coordinating scheduling activities with other departments, ensuring work order data accuracy, and managing spare parts inventories.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Analyzes, plans, and schedules VPP & safety-related work orders, corrective, preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance activities utilizing CMMS, while coordinating daily with manufacturing and maintenance supervision.
• Prepares daily planned maintenance job packages, required task lists, and spare parts kits.
• Performs work order tracking, reporting, and maintains equipment history files in CMMS.
• Controls and optimizes maintenance spare parts ordering, stocking, issuing, and inventorying.
• Works with OEMs, plant and engineering, maintenance associates, and equipment manuals to ensure proper maintenance tasks and spare parts are defined and entered into the CMMS.
• Supports root cause analysis and problem solving related to maintenance costs, activities, and trends.
• Supports the development and refinement of Preventive Maintenance tasks and schedules.
• Leads vendor relations for spare parts managed by suppliers.
• Acts as an expert user of CMMS, supporting maintenance associate training and system use.
• Performs related and/or additional duties as required.
• Determines engineering or contractor support needs.
• Coordinates daily and weekly maintenance planning meetings between Maintenance, Planning, and Operations.
• Leads reliability-centered activities.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

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