Maintenance planner

PridestaffVisalia is hiring a Maintenance Planner for a Direct Hire position.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Creates and maintains a preventive maintenance system for plant equipment
• Coordinate communications and efforts with vendors to execute repairs, PM’s,

and upgrades to equipment and tooling. Participate in planning meetings with

Maintenance.

Coordinates with plant supervisors to ensure plant equipment performs to meet

production demands

Plans and assigns maintenance tasks (preventative and corrective) to

maintenance technicians

Receive machine downtime data as well as monitoring and posting PM

completion ratio data. Inputs data into COG’s system as well as specified Excel

documents

• Develops a weekly schedule for PM’s to critical and ancillary equipment
• Ensures that the CMMS software and data files are complete and current
• Identifies and analyzes and reviews equipment maintenance problems with the

maintenance manager to update or modify PM frequency or add more tasks to

existing PM’s

Creates, refines, implements, distributes, and follows up on tasks related to

preventive and corrective maintenance programs including scheduling, budgeting

and driving activities

Communicates plant equipment operational status on a continual basis to

maintenance manager and maintenance supervisors

Tracks maintenance supply inventories to ensure that proper materials are on-

hand for planned maintenance activities and emergency corrective maintenanceneeds

Works with parts clerk and purchasing agent to ensure that parts are readily

available for PM’s and corrective work orders for job completion in a timely

fashion

Implement and maintain systems to coordinate and control plant maintenance

housekeeping and rounds sheet, filter log, drawings and owner’s manuals

• Knows and complies with all safety and quality policies and procedures
• Performs and participates in team-building activities such as shift change (pass-

down) meetings, safety meetings and work schedules to ensure workloads andopportunities are distributed fairly; developing employee skills, utilizing strengths

and improving weaknesses

Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on

work priority, quantity of equipment and skill of personnel

Actively work and coordinate work with maintenance manager, maintenance

supervisors, production supervisors and team leads to minimize plant down time

Monitor tools and the condition of maintenance shops to ensure adequate

working conditions

Examine objects, systems, or facilities, and analyze information to determine

needed installations, services, or repairs for scheduled PM and contractor work

Coordinate, plan and track maintenance activities utilizing maintenance software

to keep accurate records.

• Support development and implementation of capital improvements.
• Must be able to work with Operators, Packers, Maintenance, and Management to

achieve goals without having direct authority over any group(s).

Must be able to apply technical knowledge, analytical and critical thinking skills to

solve problems quickly when production equipment is down.

Must be able to manage time effectively while coordinating projects and

supporting production

Other duties as assigned by the supervisor or manager

Qualifications

• 3-5 Years prior experience in Preventive Maintenance Planning preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or one to three months

related experience and / or training or equivalent combination of education and

experience.

Reasoning ability Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out

instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to troubleshoot and

solve problems.

Language skills Ability to read and comprehend English language, simple

instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to write simple

correspondence in English. Ability to effectively present information.

Mathematics Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and

divide with 10’s and 100’s. Ability to perform these operations using units of weights

and measurement and volume.

First Shift

Direct Hire

Competitive Wage DOE

Benefits

Compensation / Pay Rate (Up to) : $24.00 - $28.00 Per Hour

Last updated : 2024-05-19