Maintenance Planner - Paper Machine

First Quality King of Prussia PA; Lock Haven (Clinton County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus opportunities

Paid time off

Medical, dental and vision

401(k) with employer match

Paid parental leave

Tuition assistance

Wellness program

Job summary

First Quality Tissue in Lock Haven, PA is seeking a Maintenance Planner to optimize maintenance work force effectiveness by planning, coordinating, and documenting repair activities. The role supports Operations and Maintenance to ensure timely execution and safe, efficient work orders.

The ideal candidate will have CMMS experience, strong organization, and leadership skills, plus a track record of mitigating delays and coordinating external resources when needed.

Qualifications

• Understanding of CMMS in use at site or equivalent experience with alternate CMMS systems
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Above average troubleshooting skills with analytical thought processes
• Demonstrates leadership, accountability and credibility
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Proficient in basic computer and logic skills
• Five years in a maintenance role, preferably in a similar department

Responsibilities

• Adhere to the Maintenance Work Process and audit work orders for accuracy
• Scope and verify work required for orders by visiting the site
• Prepare weekly forecast of work ready to schedule
• Facilitate weekly work order planning meetings
• Coordinate with contractors and ensure bids when required
• Maintain CMMS data, equipment records and spare parts inventory
• Audit and close out completed work orders

Skills

CMMS experience

Time management

Troubleshooting

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Computer literacy

Tools

CMMS software

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®.

Job Overview

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 bids are obtained when required.
• Ensure contractor management training is completed
• Ensure all contract job documentation is completed as required
• Responsible for ensuring duplicate or unnecessary work orders are deleted from the backlog
• Audit and close out completed work orders
• A adds and updates equipment records within the CMMS, including new installations, demolitions and removal, etc.
• Ensure availability of critical spare parts and act as a resource to locate needed spare parts
• Identify need and submit approval to stock new parts in storeroom
• Train team members in the use of the CMMS
• Participate and lead Root Cause Analysis investigations as needed
• Preserve physical data to assist in failure investigations
• Ensure maintenance shop housekeeping at acceptable levels at all times
• Participate in the budgeting process to identify needed equipment/facility repairs
• Supports the Maintenance Supervisors, Engineers, and support teams as needed to achieve goals and objectives
• Complies with, and is a role model for, all First Quality safety and handbook protocols
• Interfaces with the Operations team for daily, weekly, monthly, and outage maintenance work planning
• Coordinate work in support of the mill’s lubrication effort
• Be a role model demonstrating the FQT “Rules of Engagement”
• Fill in as the supervisor when they are absent from the mill
• Take off‑shift and weekend calls to cover as maintenance supervisor
• Participate in weekend on‑call coverage rotation

The ideal candidate should possess the following

• Understanding of CMMS in use at site or equivalent experience with alternate CMMS systems
• Possess excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Above average troubleshooting skills with analytical thought processes.
• Demonstrates good leadership qualities – accountability, credibility, trust…
• Employs excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Possesses intermediate computer and logic skills.
• Ideal candidate will have functioned in a maintenance role for five years, preferably within the hiring department
• Standard knowledge of safety regulations within the manufacturing field

What We Offer You

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three‑week minimum)
• Medical, dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums ...and more!

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.

About First Quality (Reiterated)

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®.