Maintenance planner

Job Description

Maintenance Planner - East Plant Elevator A - Decatur, IL

This is a full-time, exempt position.

Basic Function and Overview

The Planner is to improve work force productivity and work quality through the planning and coordination of labor, parts, material, tools, equipment access, documentation, work area access, and any other items necessary for work planning purposes.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Create for the use of the maintenance work group complete and accurate planned work packages. Work packages will include estimated man-hour requirements, special skill requirements, drawings, manuals, special procedures, bills of material, materials, special tools or equipment, permit and inspection requirements, safety evaluation, and pre-job safety checklist.
• Establish a job library to house detailed job plans.
• Breakdown complex work requirements into individual and logical steps.
• Allocate time to Major Job Plans Steps in fractional hours, 0.1 hrs or greater and to establish time scales that are reasonable and the minimum required to perform the work both safely, quality and customer satisfaction as paramount.
• Based upon the detailed job plan, identify the required materials from either stores or external suppliers. Should external suppliers be required, prepare the needed purchase orders and forward the completed documents to the Purchasing and or Material Coordination Role
• Based upon the detailed job plan, identify the required Specialty Services from external suppliers. Prepare the needed purchase orders or release documents, and forward the completed documents to the Purchasing and or Material Coordination Role
• Receive and review for completeness, authorized work orders. Correct and review as necessary based upon a field check of the work order at the work location.
• As required, conduct a field check associated with the equipment in the work order to gain and a complete understanding of the task involved enabling the Planner from firsthand knowledge to prepare an accurate job package.

As appropriate, meet with Operations.

• Openly welcome constructive feedback from the Technicians and take action upon the recommendations as appropriate in a timely manner
• Ability to self-manage in the performance of duties.
• Ability to assess and assign appropriate skill level to tasks so as to provide the most cost effective service.
• Working to benefit the team

Accountability

The following individual measures for success are the responsibility of each planner

• Number of full job packages placed into the job library
• Ratio of Work Orders placed on the Schedule that are fully planned as a percent of all work orders
• Fully Planned Work Orders in the Job Backlog
• Comparisons of estimated work order cost versus actual work order costs
• Scheduling delays that result from the following planner attributes
• Job Plan / Package - Not Clear
• Parts omitted from the work order bill of materials
• Job phase time - over or under estimated

Minimum Qualifications

• Working knowledge of trades classifications and functions including tools and materials, and task specific sequencing required for maintenance and repairs and preventative maintenance tasks.
• Prior use and interpretation of maintenance or facility maintenance union contracts and vendor contracts applicable to job task assignments.
• Use of safety measures and the understanding of OSHA regulations for construction and trade work.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Demonstrated proficient use of various computer programs.
• Experience with interpreting blueprints, diagrams and manuals.
• Accurate and acute written and oral communications skills
• Ability to coach and mentor peers, and to share among peers newly found or developed skills, techniques and improvements.

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AJC IND'

REF : 84360BR

Last updated : 2024-06-08