Maintenance Planner jobs in Fort Worth, TX

About Our Company

Carolina Beverage Group is a world-class specialty beverage co-packer for leading beverage brands. Headquartered in Mooresville, NC with additional locations in Cold Spring, MN and Fort Worth, TX. We are incredibly proud of the strong team we have built with over 1,000 hard-working team members. Our ownership investments continue to bring new equipment & expansive operations to all locations providing ample opportunities across all locations in a variety of roles and departments including Production, Blending, Ingredients, Quality, Maintenance and Warehousing.

Summary: The basic goal of planning and scheduling is avoiding delay. The role of the Maintenance Planner is to improve work force productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labor, parts and material, and equipment access.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Responsible for initial screening of incoming work orders, identification of scope, and analysis of required level of planning
• Conducts field walk downs to identify and document job requirements
• Identifies specific safety hazards that will be encountered in the performance of the proposed work
• Makes safety procedures, including lock-out /tag-out procedures available to employees. Ensures that all aspects of the existing company safety policy are incorporated into the job plan.
• Estimates require hours on work order tasks, total work order duration, and skills required to perform the task.
• Plans jobs with appropriate level of detail for the given skilled trades workforce
• Determines and included AQ/QC requirements on jobs
• Procures equipment and specialized tools required to perform work
• Gathers necessary engineering or technical documents, specification, and drawings
• Writes clear and concise work procedures
• Determines and arranges for parts required to perform the work ( when no expediter exists)
• Plans parts for all projects to increase “wrench time” and maximize efficiency.
• Compiles information into a job package that is ready for skilled trades – clearly communicates with skilled trades regarding critical steps in the process
• Prints and delivers work orders to the skilled trades in conjunction with the weekly work schedule
• Upon completion of jobs, communicates with skilled trades regarding ideas and procedures that would make future jobs more efficient
• Coordinates priority setting with the management team – places specific emphasis on obtaining the input of operations personnel in the setting of priorities
• Keeps bills of materials current
• Is able to accurately measure the maintenance backlog in its various forms and continually maintains not less than two weeks’ worth of ready backlog at all times.
• Responsible for equipment and repair parts data entry and management.
• Ensures all work orders and maintenance lo=g items are closed when work is finished
• Participates in outage planning activities such as scope identification and control, scheduling, coordination, risk, assessment, execution, and continuous improvement.
• Communicates with contractor resources directly on specific work orders assigned to the contractors and the performance expectations of the work order. Does not manage the contractors, but ensures that all of the details of the work order are clearly communicated and understood.
• Participates with Reliability Department Personnel on improvement projects, particularly when they are related to the proactive maintenance plan
• Compiles and delivers reports from CMMS (EAM) regarding the work execution and management process.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to work in wet, humid, or outdoor conditions. The employee is also exposed to varying temperatures extremes including heat and cold as the weather varies. The employee is occasionally exposed to work on elevated platforms, with fumes or airborne particles, or with toxic or caustic chemicals. This employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and exposed to vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Distance vision, Close Vision, Color Vision, Peripheral vision, and Depth perception. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand, talk or hear, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.

• Many of our positions work on average 15 days/month, based on 2-2-3 schedule; however, we have a variety of work schedules dependent on position and/or department
• Night Shift Differential (additional $1.00)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Health
• HSA
• Dental
• Vision
• Life and AD&D- company paid & supplemental
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• Company Life Insurance
• Free Uniforms
• Monthly Bonus Incentive Program
• Employee Referral Bonuses
• Employee Appreciation Events
• Company Swag – Apparel, hats & a variety of other items available
• Discount Purchases on Beer from our MN Brewhouse Brand
• Eligible for benefits the first month following 60 days of employment including medical, a health savings account option, dental, vision, disability, company paid & voluntary life and more
• 401k match after 6 months with 100% immediate vesting