Maintenance Planner

Michael Foods; Wakefield (NE); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development opportunities

Safe work environment

Innovative team environment

Job summary

A leading food processing company is seeking a Maintenance Planner in Wakefield, NE. This role involves planning and scheduling maintenance tasks, enhancing asset reliability, and providing support for Maintenance and Reliability services. Candidates should have a high school diploma (or GED), experience in industrial maintenance, and familiarity with SAP. The position demands strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team-oriented environment. Join us and contribute to our commitment to safety and quality.

Qualifications

• 2 to 3 years of experience as an industrial maintenance technician preferred.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and P&ID diagrams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to Maintenance and Reliability services.
• Plan, schedule, and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques.
• Keeps accurate and up-to-date maintenance records.

Skills

SAP Experience

Mechanical & Electrical Troubleshooting

Communication Skills

Time Management

Education

High school diploma or GED

Technical certificate or Associate's degree

Tools

CMMS systems

Job description

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food.

Location Description

Wakefield is one of the largest production facilities within Michael Foods. We serve as a flex plant and are able to produce everything from a whole pasteurized egg to liquid, dried, hardboiled and curds.

Responsibilities

The Maintenance Planner provides support to both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing maintenance process executional excellence and asset health improvement efforts. This role is for M-F, 630am-330pm. SAP Experience is required. The Maintenance Planner will ensure results while partnering with the MFI ARM team, plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. This role must be available for scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.

Key responsibilities include:

• Actively participate as a maintenance team support services member to ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost, are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Engage and develop the asset care team members to deliver expected levels of reliability. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture.
• Plan, schedule, and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met
• Identify, develop, and implement maintenance process and performance improvement projects
• Develops and implements PM and job plans for critical equipment work with the maintenance, reliability, operations, & engineering personnel.
• Actively participate in maintenance process and system training for team personnel
• Advise / assist craftsman during planned and scheduled maintenance assignments as necessary
• Plan and schedule preventive and corrective maintenance tasks with excellence
• Actively participate in storeroom activities related to job packages and kitting, component criticality analysis, reliability-based storage practices
• Actively participate in the development and sustainability of the CMMS physical asset data base including equipment & component criticality, precision tasks, BOM’s, and all other necessary supporting data for asset care excellence
• Actively participate in maintenance & reliability task scheduling for long term and short-term equipment reliability in an inclusive and transparent manner working with operations partners
• Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support reliability reporting and decision making. This will be accomplished through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.
• Keep accurate and up-to-date records as required.
• Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement.
• Promote, and foster Michael Foods culture, values, and principles.
• Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviors. Assumes personal responsibility to insure safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Adheres to Quality work practices, follows GMP’s, maintains sanitary conditions and ensures that product quality is maintained. Reports on conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Always ensures required regulatory compliance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent
• Associate's degree or two-year technical certificate, or experience which demonstrates technical aptitude preferred
• 2 to 3 years of experience as an industrial maintenance technician preferred
• Trained and competent in MFI MTL1 and MTL2 skills preferred
• Ability to read and decipher mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and P&ID diagrams preferred
• E&I troubleshooting experience preferred
• 1 to 2 years of experience with maintenance planning in a manufacturing environment preferred
• Prior experience in SAP at “competent user” level preferred
• Ability to interact with all levels of the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with superb time management and project scheduling skills.
• Excellent administrative and follow up skills to achieve success with condition-based maintenance, preventive maintenance, and precision corrective repair programs.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.