Maintenance Planner

Position Title: Maintenance Planner

Department: Maintenance

Location: SOUDERTON, PA

Salary Class: SNE

Reports to: Maintenance Manager

Purpose & Scope:  The Maintenance Planner position is responsible for assisting with developing a reliability-based maintenance strategy, based on preventive and predictive maintenance. The Planner will work independently and with other plant personnel to perform preventative, predictive, and routine maintenance tasks. The Planner position requires hands-on maintenance experience. All tasks will be performed while supporting the company's policies, goals and objectives.

Principle Responsibilities:

• Maintain equipment records in SAP
• Update equipment records as equipment is installed or uninstalled
• Maintain equipment attributes, such as ABC, type, and functional location to support repair analysis
• Maintain equipment catalog profiles to drive part failure data collection on notifications
• Setup and maintain all predictive and preventative maintenance plans in SAP to maximize equipment reliability
• Determine the most effective method/tool to conduct preventative and predictive maintenance checks based on how critical equipment is
• Setup PM plan in SAP for each piece of equipment, including frequency, mechanic tasks, parts needs, tools needed, and safety procedures
• Generate PM work orders in SAP, from the PM plans for the next 14-28 days
• Monitor and report if PM work is being completed to maintain equipment reliability, and comply with regulations and audits
• Schedule and release PM work orders to maintenance crews
• Seek input from maintenance supervisors to continually improve and adjust PM plans based on equipment and part performance/failure
• Monitor and analyze SAP part failure data (along with supervisors and maintenance manager) to detect trends (good or bad)
• Plan and schedule corrective work to maximize crew utilization and effectiveness
• Review work requests (SAP Notifications), collaborate with requestors, and create Work Orders
• Plan work, including estimated labor by craft (Mech, Elect, Refrig), and special equipment or permits needed
• Identify and reserve parts (or create purchase requisitions) for parts and services
• Prepare job plans and work order packets for mechanics
• Maintain a task list library for reuse
• Interface with operations to validate work priority and equipment availability
• Collaborate with Maintenance Supervisors on the next week’s available hours (crew size) in order to build weekly schedule
• Review Planned Backlog of work that is ready to execute
• Select work from backlog and schedule the work to crews (minimizing scheduled overtime)
• Lead weekly maintenance scheduling meetings
• Prepare weekly metrics

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

• The plant environment will include wet or humid conditions (non-weather related), extreme cold (non-weather related), and working near moving mechanical parts
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud when in the production area.

• Will be regularly exposed to outside weather in all conditions
• Will be regularly exposed to chemicals used in the plant and for maintenance processes

Qualifications:

• Associates or Bachelor’s degree or 1-year experience as a maintenance planner or coordinator preferred
• 1-year experience in SAP preferred
• Strong working knowledge of industrial maintenance and electrical functions
• Ability to build and use maintenance library for repairs
• Ability to read and interpret technical/engineering documents, drawings, and schematics
• Ability to write detailed repair reports as well as good verbal communication

• Expertise and proficiency with basic office computer software, and the ability to learn how to effectively use maintenance software to input data, research parts and analyze repair history detail
• Thorough working knowledge of Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS), Purchasing, and Microsoft Office products

EOE/VETS/DISABILITY