Maintenance Planner

Job description

Maintenance planner/coordinator

Primary purpose

Maintain all aspects of the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). This includes converting work requests into work orders, scheduling maintenance activities, confirming spare parts availability, collecting work order information, and reporting progress against maintenance KPIs.

Responsibilities and duties

This position will interface with the maintenance manager and the TPM/spare parts group to incorporate best business practices (BBPs) in the area of maintenance routines and required spare parts to increase productivity by reducing corrective maintenance and increasing preventive/predictive maintenance. Will serve as plant super user for the CMMS and support updates and modifications to this system. This will include the development of at least one backup support person and the mentoring of a future scheduler/planner.

Primary duties

Fully plan work orders, including internal operations, material purchases, requisitions, service purchases, labor purchases

Coordinate and organize with the maintenance and operations department the preventive maintenance schedule

Distribute weekly preventive maintenance work orders

Gather data and produce reports as required by maintenance manager

Review planned and confirmed work orders and maintenance history recordings for accuracy

Review daily breakdown statistics and remedies executed to determine if engineering input is required

Review work order feedback from the trades regarding updates to task lists and maintenance plans and make suggestions

Participate/facilitate in scheduling and shift crossover meetings

Participate/facilitate weekly team meetings where weekly KPIs, action item status, and maintenance performance are reviewed

Complete daily, weekly, and monthly reports as required

Generate and distribute work order backlog report

Interface with maintenance supervisor, maintenance manager, engineering manager, and parts group

Collect parts needed to complete work orders and communicate when all material is available

Keep files of daily production reports

Keep logs of the equipment and tooling, preventive and corrective maintenance

Review the corrective maintenance work requests coming from production departments

Ensure compliance with proper safety, quality, and environmental requirements in work

Take responsibility for the CMMS database and data integrity

Conduct weekly and monthly air leak audits

Perform daily walkthroughs with plant operations to identify abnormalities

Conduct monthly 5S audits

Provide weekly onboarding for new employee utilization PowerPoint

Understand total productive maintenance

Utilize and set up MVP Plant

Qualifications

University degree and minimum 1 year experience or minimum 2 years experience or equivalent combination

Three to five years of experience in plant maintenance and operations

Effective team building and communication skills

Previous experience with MVP Plant or equivalent CMMS software

Ability to set priorities, work independently, and coordinate multiple projects utilizing available resources