Maintenance Planner

Garelick Farms, Dairy Farmer of America, is excited to announce an opening for a Maintenance Planner MRO position!

We offer excellent benefits and competitive pay with great growth opportunities!

External Candidate -$1,500.00 sign-on bonus

1^st. Shift 7:00 am to 3:30 pm 

GENERAL PURPOSE

Coordinate maintenance planning activities and provide operations support. Coordinate in-house planned maintenance, preventive maintenance, and work order backlog based on production and maintenance requirements, maintenance, and operations inventory process.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage preventive and predictive maintenance program to maintain efficient equipment operation.
• Prepare, review, update, and close maintenance work orders (e.g., job plan, labor hours, skill set required, and parts availability) through SAP or established program.
• Manage and coordinate work order backlog to establish execution schedules based on production and maintenance requirements and available resources to minimize planned downtime activities.
• Schedule and manage daily and weekly maintenance activity schedules.
• Create purchase orders to procure parts and production supplies, including price negotiation and purchase processes.
• Maintain inventory of maintenance department parts and production supplies, including inventory control, purchasing approval coordination, and inventory product process
• Maintain up-to-date library of machine manuals, prints and schematics.
• Manage SAP or applicable system, including set up entities, vendors, and equipment.
• Prepare maintenance financial, statistical, and technical reports, including equipment history maintenance and open order updates.
• Work closely with maintenance staff on continuously improving programs by editing tasks and frequencies when approved by manager.
• Maintain safe working conditions for employees and compliance with all state and federal regulations regarding health and safety issues.
• Follow all DFA good manufacturing practices (GMP) and work in a manner consistent with all corporate regulatory, food safety, quality, and sanitation requirements.
• The requirements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employee, but is not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Other duties may be assigned as required.