Maintenance Planner

Kikkoman Foods, Inc.; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kikkoman Foods, Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Planner to coordinate maintenance activities, balance workload with available resources, and facilitate communication between production and maintenance teams.

The role requires planning preventive and reactive work and developing detailed work plans for efficient scheduling and execution. The incumbent will monitor programs, manage materials, and support continuous improvement of maintenance processes and asset reliability in a high-temperature,

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance planning and scheduling
• Ability to read and interpret maintenance data
• Familiarity with CMMS/maintenance software
• Strong communication and coordination skills

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains weekly maintenance schedule and assigns activities
• Plans preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance work
• Creates work plans for PM, PdM and corrective tasks
• Manages purchasing duties and 24/7 maintenance requirements
• Stages materials and coordinates resources for maintenance activities
• Reviews data to improve future planned work and asset reliability

Skills

Effective communication

Detail oriented

Basic mechanics

Excel/Word/PowerPoint

Maintenance planning experience

Tools

CMMS

ULTIMO

Job description

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for determining how the job will be performed and who will perform which activities through the control of a Maintenance Weekly Work Schedule, including balancing the workload with the available resources. The Maintenance Planner will be a key facilitator for communication between production departments and maintenance personnel.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops, maintains and monitors programs and systems such as Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and ULTIMO.
• Plans all maintenance activities, both preventive and reactive work.
• Develops work plans for maintenance (PM, PdM and Corrective work) with necessary information to allow efficient scheduling, assigning and execution of maintenance work.
• Performs purchasing duties, as required, ensuring adherence to purchasing policies and 24/7 requirements for maintenance.
• Stages materials, as required.
• Evaluates job feedback and makes recommendations to improve future planned work.
• Prioritizes work requests and work orders.
• Calculates planned work, based on open work with priorities, and forecasted available labor hours based on production communication.
• Prepares training course materials and conducts training and demonstrations for users of CMMS concepts, and provides training and work direction to staff.
• Conducts investigations and studies for a variety of maintenance programs and projects pertaining to the facility and infrastructure, and makes recommendations on findings.
• Administers, prepares and coordinates requirements and reviews reports, specifications and documentation related to maintenance activities.
• Assists with budget preparation and tracking of expenditures.
• Prepares drafts of documents, contracts, specifications and agreements for the Supervisors and Managers.
• Programs, operates and maintains a variety of mechanical, digital, analogue, wireless, computerized and other equipment and systems, and provides training to staff in maintenance activities, calculations, diagnostics, repairs, studies, etc.
• Reviews quality assurance data integrity checks and produces reports/corrective actions based on findings.
• Performs and/or monitor tests, analyzes results and makes recommendations.
• Performs and/or reviews research and calculations and analyzes technical data.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings.
• Review analytical data and create preventative/predictive plans related to asset reliability in a complex process facility.
• Considerable experience applying maintenance principles, practices, concepts and options, related to maintenance planning, scheduling, coordination and optimization.
• Perform all duties as directed.

Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to effectively communicate
• Highly detail oriented
• Understanding and knowledge of basic mechanics
• Ability to utilize Excel, Word, and Power Point
• Considerable experience applying maintenance principles, practices, concepts and options, related to maintenance planning, scheduling, coordination and optimization.

Physical & Behavioral:

• Frequently is required to sit, stand, walk, talk and hear
• Frequently required to reach above shoulders, climb, work at heights, crouch, stoop or kneel
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds usually from floor to waist level, and able to lift 25 pounds repetitively at or above shoulder height
• Ability to work under conditions of high temperature and high humidity for extended periods of time
• Kikkoman expects all employees to behave and communicate in a manner which will facilitate good relations with customers, clients, co-workers and supervisors; maintaining a positive work atmosphere