Maintenance Planner: Optimize Plant Maintenance & Materials

Bunge; Destrehan (LA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

PTO

Job summary

Bunge in Destrehan, LA is seeking a Maintenance Planner to improve plant productivity by planning required materials, procedures, and resources for maintenance work. The role includes recording results and maintaining accurate records for analysis.

You will review work orders, develop standard plans for recurring repairs, verify stock, and ensure bills of materials are up to date. The position requires strong math skills and ability to read blueprints.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 2-year vocational or technical degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5+ years of progressive experience operating in the capacity as a plant maintenance worker preferably as millwright or electrician with some experience leading day-to-day preventive and corrective maintenance.
• Adequate trade knowledge to estimate labor hours and materials and ability to visualize a job to completion.
• Has the ability to read blueprints and shop drawings.
• Strong mathematical skills.

Responsibilities

• Reviews and screens each work order to see that it has been properly completed.
• Develops and maintains planned and predictive maintenance procedures as required.
• Examine jobs to be completed and determine best way to accomplish the work.
• Identifies and obtains materials, special tools and equipment necessary to complete the work.
• Determines if critical items are in stock by verifying availability.
• Estimates cost of each work order in terms of direct labor, materials required and total cost.
• Develops a file of standard work orders for regularly recurring repair jobs, based on historical experience.
• Reviews of actual labor expended versus estimated labor and material used for completed jobs.
• Conducts informal training as required of maintenance personnel regarding proper maintenance procedures and the use of any applicable maintenance software.
• Reviews all completed work orders for accuracy, updating machinery history data in applicable maintenance system of record as needed.
• Understands the proper methods of replacing or maintaining typical mechanical equipment items (Conveyors, belt and bucket elevators, mills, pumps, grinders, food processing equipment).

Skills

Maintenance planning

Read blueprints

Shop drawings

Mathematical skills

Team leadership

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

2-year vocational or technical degree preferred

Job description

Bunge in Destrehan, LA is seeking a Maintenance Planner to improve plant productivity by planning required materials, procedures, and resources for maintenance work. The role includes recording results and maintaining accurate records for analysis.

You will review work orders, develop standard plans for recurring repairs, verify stock, and ensure bills of materials are up to date. The position requires strong math skills and ability to read blueprints.