Maintenance Planner - Paper Machine

firstquality; Lock Haven (Clinton County); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

First Quality is seeking a Maintenance Planner for our Paper Machine at the Lock Haven, PA site. You will plan and schedule maintenance work, collaborate with operations and maintenance teams, and manage work orders to minimize downtime.

Responsibilities include auditing work orders, preparing weekly forecasts, coordinating contractors, and maintaining CMMS records. Strong organizational skills and attention to safety are essential.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule maintenance work orders for the paper machine.
• Collaborate with operations and maintenance teams to identify and prioritize work.
• Audit and verify work orders; prepare weekly forecasts and reports.
• Coordinate contractors and outside resources; manage parts and materials.
• Maintain CMMS records and ensure proper documentation for repairs.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive improvements to minimize downtime.

Job description

Maintenance Planner - Paper Machine

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 Tissue location in Lock Haven, PA.

Job Function

Responsible for providing improvements in maintenance work force effectiveness by eliminating potential for delays and obstacles through proper planning, being the facilitator for the maintenance planning meetings on a weekly basis, plans, and maintains documentation for repairs, teams with operations and maintenance supervisors on identification, coordination, and execution of maintenance work.

Job Responsibilities

• Adhere to the Maintenance Work Process to identify work orders, audit work orders for accuracy, and provide feedback on completed work to Operations and Maintenance Teams.
• Scope and verify type and amount of work required for work orders by visiting site/location of work needed.
• Report all conditions requiring maintenance services.
• Participate in weekly non-outage work scheduling meetings and challenges work order priority when needed based on knowledge, experience, equipment status, and production demands.
• Screens work orders to determine ability to complete work on the run or whether work requires a shutdown (outage) to safely complete.
• Participates in determining if indirect work procedures apply for specific work orders.
• Audits content of work order documentation to ensure all required information is present (i.e. equipment identification, clear description of problem, correct coding, proper trade identification, work order type, cost center, estimated labor hours and manpower required to complete, priority rating, work order status, and class).
• Facilitates weekly work order planning meeting.
• Ensures all preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, basic care, compliance, and safety routes that are due are put in Ready to Schedule status and the Operations and Maintenance teams are made aware of what routes are due.
• Reviews work order backlog for all overdue preventive maintenance routes and outage preparation work.
• Prepares a weekly forecast of all work that will be ready to schedule for the following week.
• Ensures history changes for completed work are entered into the CMMS.
• Obtains outside resources as necessary (contractors, vendors, parts, etc.).
• Develop planned work order packages that include but not limited to: materials/parts required, repair procedures, schematics and drawings, risk assessment checklists, specific tooling required, lockout and confined space entry procedures, repair history, manpower estimates, additional environmental or safety concerns.
• Maintain standard work order packages for repetitive tasks.
• Identify any logistical or coordination bottlenecks (i.e. crane usage, lift availability, conflicts with other work being done).
• Identify suspect equipment by reviewing work history to confirm repeat failures and communicate the identified issues to Maintenance Supervisors and Operations teams.
• Order materials as needed for work orders by:
  • Contacting vendors and ensuring correct materials are ordered
  • Create purchase requisitions for non-stock parts and materials needed to perform work while ensuring requisitions have all proper documentation, description, cost centers, and vendors identified correctly
  • Utilize the pick ticket system to ensure all stock parts are ordered through the Storeroom, ensure parts are retrieved from Storeroom and delivered to job site ahead of scheduled work start
  • Track parts and material orders to ensure timely delivery
  • Ensure work order status for pertinent work orders changed from Awaiting Parts to Ready to Schedule and communicate the status change to Operations and Maintenance teams
  • Return all unused parts
• Coordinate and manage service representatives and contractors to develop scope of work and ensuring competitive bi