Maintenance Planner
On-siteWaxahachie, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Manage maintenance backlogs, develop strategic schedules, and coordinate labor and materials to maximize equipment uptime while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. Plan work order priorities by evaluating least cost options with minimum risks to product quality and safety. Identify resources for maintenance work by preparing bills of materials, establishing acquisition plans, and tracking specialty tools availability. Maintain and populate asset attributes in the CMMS, monitor maintenance KPIs, and communicate optimal parts inventory with storeroom management. Create effective job packages including SOPs, job safety analyses, and updated preventive maintenance kits for technicians. Track parts under warranty, monitor maintenance costs, and collaborate with production, procurement, and operations to identify continuous improvement opportunities. Report information to corporate Reliability Engineering and use feedback to continuously improve job packages.
Required Qualifications
- Five (5) years of experience performing preventive maintenance, diagnostics, and repair, or comparable experience with trade school or training
- Experience optimizing and implementing Preventative Maintenance (PM)
- Experience applying Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
- Ability to successfully prioritize deadlines and tasks with little supervision in both team and independent environments
- Strong verbal and written skills necessary to communicate intricate job-related information
- Experience with Predictive Maintenance Technologies
- Experience using Computer Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), SAP
- Math skills to include simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Familiarity with and ability to convert decimals to fractions or vice versa
- Advanced mechanical aptitude and ability to troubleshoot complex problems including knowledge of machines and tools, their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance
- Proficient in reading and following complex blueprints, manuals, and mechanic and electrical schematics
- Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and piping/pump systems
- Ability to effectively manage and execute multiple tasks, simple to complex projects and priorities
- Experience using Microsoft Office, including the ability to modify basic reports, documents and spreadsheets in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint
- Ability to observe, follow, understand, and evaluate processes demonstrated and other workplace procedures
- Demonstration of minimum proficiency with the English language in order to ensure effective new hire training and on-going communications about safety and quality issues
Desired Qualifications
- Prior maintenance planning and scheduling experience
- Paper converting, chemical/plastics processing and/or packaging industrial experience
- Experience working with plastics extrusion, thermoforming, injection molding, paper printing and/or paper converting processes
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