Planner-Maintenance (Infrastructure)

Benteler Automotive Corporation; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

BENTELER Automotive Corporation seeks a maintenance planner to organize detailed job plans, coordinate preventative maintenance, and support shutdown planning in a manufacturing setting in Shreveport, LA. You will maintain CMMS data, allocate labor and materials, and ensure clear communication across shifts.

Ideal candidates have a technical background, the ability to read drawings, and experience estimating hours for maintenance tasks while complying with safety standards and company procedures.

Qualifications

• Two years technical school or equivalent practical training in a primary technical field.
• Mechanical/electrical background; able to estimate labor hours and material needs.
• Ability to read blueprints and machine/process drawings.

Responsibilities

• Detailed job planning.
• Preventative maintenance and weekly planning.
• Assist in shutdown planning for major and minor outages.
• Maintain CMMS with planned job packages and labor/material libraries.
• Ensure effective communication of maintenance activities across shifts.

Skills

Mechanical background

Electrical background

Blueprint reading

Estimating labor hours

Instruction writing

Education

Two years technical school

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

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Division: BENTELER Steel/Tube
Functional Area: Maintenance
Career Level: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent/Full-time
Weekly Working Hours: 40.00
Required Languages: English
Requisition ID: 47533

At BENTELER, we make it possible. From promoting individual talents to international career prospects, or from generous opportunities for designing your career to personal development opportunities- at BENTELER, we always have answers to your questions about the future, based entirely on your personal needs. Diverse options that makes sure you can be anything and everything. Or, as we like to put it: BENTELER makes it happen!

Job Responsibilities

• Detailed job planning.
• Preventative Maintenance and standard/weekly job planning and development.
• Assist in planning and scheduling for shutdowns (major and minor).
• Maintain CMMS including a file of planned job packages for recurring jobs (Task List), plus labor and material libraries for each piece of equipment.
• Ensure effective communication of maintenance activities across and between shifts, in conjunction with the operations production plan.
• Participate in priority and planning meetings, outage coordination meetings, and schedule review meetings.
• Coordinate contracted maintenance services.
• Assist in visual inspections to machinery and equipment.
• Ensure the appropriate usage of parts, identifying improvement opportunities that will lead to higher equipment reliability, improved repair procedures or reduced cost.
• Inform Maintenance manager of abnormal or critical situations and seek advice on matters outside the planner's knowledge or authority.
• Enter purchase requisitions for all planned services and maintenance related functions including but not limited to spare parts, internal and external assembly refurbishments etc.
• Enter system reservations for all planned material requirements and unplanned material requirements when applicable.
• Assist in accuracy of maintaining of the Bills of Material (Parts lists) for assets.
• Review all work order feedback and update Preventative Maintenance tasks and standard work orders accordingly.
• Involvement in (M9 Notification) emergency and urgent work requests. There is no opportunity to plan such work. If any planning is to be accomplished, the planner must focus on down days, along with next week and beyond.

Job Requirements

• Two years technical school or equivalent practical training in primary technical field relating to area being served. (e.g., mechanical - Area Maintenance departments, electrical - Electrical Department, machining - Tool Departments, etc.)
• Mechanical/electrical background.
• Have adequate craft knowledge and skill to accurately estimate labor hours, material requirement and skills needed to complete a job.
• Demonstrated ability to write and provide simple and accurate instructions.
• Demonstrated ability to read standard blueprints, and machine/process drawings.
• Ability to sketch or redline existing drawings.
• Knowledge of and understands the maintenance processes and proper use of the work order system, planning and scheduling and storeroom processes. Can manage multiple priorities or projects simultaneously and keep them progressing to completion.
• SAP PM module.
• Experience in plant operations and maintenance preferably in the Manufacturing industry.
• Good knowledge of plant equipment and repairs techniques.
• Knowledge of safety and environmental laws and regulations.

Your contact

Samantha Ann Metoyer
BENTELER Human Resources

The BENTELER Group always has the answer. That's because in each of our divisions and at every one of our sites, you can benefit from the size and diversity of an international corporation with more than 20,000 employees at around 90 locations worldwide.

The same is true in our BENTELER Steel/Tube division. Here, we develop and produce custom, precision pipes for customers from energy production, automotive engineering, and other industrial sectors. In this division, we enable the unerring application of our products, from the concept up to process integration and thus to integration into our customers’ value chains. Along with that, our diverse fields of application make sure you can be and become anything. Or, as we like to put it: BENTELER makes it happen!

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