Maintenance Planner

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordination of all plannable maintenance work performed within the facility. The Planner is also responsible for maintenance of records and files essential to meaningful analysis and reporting of maintenance-related matters. They are also responsible for supervising the Storeroom Attendant and their duties to receive, ship, log, code and maintain incoming and outgoing all plant materials with the exception of raw materials. They will maintain materials in the warehouse in accordance with the plant policies.  

Essential Functions:
-Minimize downtime and interruptions to operations
- Develop PM;s and review PM program on a recurring basis for effectiveness
- Develop and publish weekly schedule based off capacity planning. Maintain down day schedules and lead down day planning meetings. 
- Apply technical and maintenance experience to analysis of each job
- Provide procedures for completing work and closing work orders by: maintaining accurate backlog, reporting completion, and providing a full day of work productivity for each tradesperson.
- Eliminate work delays, identify and correct work process 
-Identify inefficacies of the work process including materials, plant conditions, kittings, and resources
- Provide special tool and equipment requirements
- Provide an overall plan for maintenance supervisor on which to base his/her pre-thinking and pre-planning for day-to-day work and future work
- Establish job goals for the work force
- Planning and scheduling of shutdowns
- Storeroom - oversee activities ensuring adequate requisitions of parts
- Establish a maintenance presence & awareness on the production lines
- Occasionally inspect the quality of performed maintenance work.
- Ensure departmental safety permits are properly completed
 -Reduce total cost of maintenance while improving conditions of equipment and operating facilities
-Provide close and constant liaison between operations and maintenance
-Provide a full day of productive work for each tradesperson
- Create requisitions as needed; communicate purchase order numbers to vendors when received and obtain estimated delivery date
- Analyze, identify, and communicate information regarding open purchase orders utilizing out-of-network vendors; identifies, researches, and resolves problems relating to purchasing issues.
-Maintain a clean and safe work environment.
- Management of Maintenance staff time /attendance in timekeeping system
- Perform other duties as assigned.