Maintenance Planner - Paper Machine

First Quality King of Prussia PA; Lock Haven, Northern (Clinton County, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Paid time off

Medical, dental and vision

401(k) with employer match

Parental leave

Child and family care assistance

Diaper bundle

Job summary

First Quality Tissue in Lock Haven, PA is seeking a Maintenance Planner for the Paper Machine. The role focuses on improving maintenance workforce effectiveness by eliminating delays, facilitating weekly planning meetings, and coordinating repairs with Operations and Maintenance.

You will maintain CMMS records, scope and verify work orders, forecast the upcoming week, order parts, and manage contractors to keep production faced with minimal outages.

Qualifications

• Experience using CMMS for maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Strong time management and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to the Maintenance Work Process and audit work orders.
• Scope and verify work orders; visit site to assess needs.
• Prepare a weekly forecast of work ready to schedule.
• Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance teams to schedule work.
• Audit and close out work orders; maintain CMMS records.
• Order materials and manage parts; track deliveries.
• Lead weekly planning meetings and review backlog.
• Ensure preventive/predictive maintenance routes are prepared for scheduling.
• Coordinate and manage contractor and vendor activities.
• Train team members on CMMS usage and safety procedures.

Skills

Maintenance planning

CMMS

Root cause analysis

Leadership

Time management

Tools

CMMS

Vendor management

Job description

Maintenance Planner - Paper Machine page is loaded## Maintenance Planner - Paper Machinelocations: US PA Lock Haventime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: R12180**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(R).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* 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**We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:* 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