Maintenance Planner jobs in Inglewood, CA

Do you want to contribute to a larger purpose to save the lives of infants in the NICU? This is Prolacta Bioscience's mission! Take a look at this opportunity with our Engineering and Facilities team, which is seeking a passionate individual, to fill the role of our Maintenance Planner I.

Maintenance Planners are responsible for the day to day maintenance functions required to maintain our calibration, corrective maintenance, preventive maintenance and spare parts programs. The Maintenance Planner provides support to generate maintenance metrics and analysis.

Who Is Prolacta Bioscience?

We give babies a brighter future by unlocking the biological power of human milk. Established in 1999, Prolacta Bioscience is a privately held life sciences company that has touched the lives of more than 70,000 premature infants globally. Prolacta is the world's leading hospital provider of 100% human milk-based nutritional products. Based in Southern California, we employ more than 300 people globally, many of whom have dedicated their lives to neonatal care.

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How you will contribute
This role will provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the growth of our organization and develop your professional skills by...

* Supports engineering projects including but not limited to equipment identification, commissioning, and validation process.

* Ability to identify areas requiring repair, or potential risks to product or employee safety.

* Plans and schedules preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance of critical plant equipment on a regular basis, to include bulk processing tanks, filling, packaging, CIP systems, facilities, critical systems/utilities and electrical control systems

Other duties and responsibilities

* Responsible for maintaining our programs in compliance within FDA, cGMP and SOPs.

* Ability to learn how to verify mechanical and electrical drawings for accuracy and redlines as required.

* Ability to understand troubleshooting and repair methods of critical equipment including; process equipment, critical systems, tanks pumps, aseptic filling and packaging equipment.

* Ability to understand building and electrical codes concepts.

* Follow and comply with EHS regulations, SOPs and cGMP policies.

* Attend required training and meetings.

* Understand and perform lock out tag out of equipment prior to maintenance activity.

* Responsible for tracking Equipment and Facility Preventative Maintenance Tasks

* Maintain documentation related to maintenance activities

* Work with contractors and/or external vendors ensuring contractor training, project scheduling and equipment planning is on track.

* Contact and facilitate on-site support from Vendors / Contractors for calibration, maintenance, and equipment purchases.

* Work with Supply Chain to facilitate buying for the maintenance and engineering groups.

* Work with the Facility Maintenance Manager to maintain the spare parts storage and spare parts inventory.

* May performed other duties as assigned.

What you bring to the role

Requirements:

* High School diploma minimum, with 3 years of experience in planning, scheduling or supply chain.

* Associate degree in business management, supply chain or technical discipline with 1 year of experience in planning, scheduling or supply chain.

* Bachelor's degree in business management, supply chain or technical discipline.

Qualifications:

* Knowledge of production equipment including but not limited to process tanks, critical systems, filling equipment, packaging equipment and CIP systems is preferable.

* Ability to read, write and understand technical documents and instructions, electrical and mechanical drawings, equipment blue prints and piping and instrumentation drawings with minimum guidance.

* Possess customer service and attitude to take ownership of any maintenance related problem.

* Good scheduling and communication skills.

* A self-motivated individual with the ability to work independently and use good judgment.

* Must be able to handle multiple priorities.

* Must be proactive, results orientated, and have a strong attention to detail.

* Knowledge of cGMP and health care product manufacturing experience preferred

* Knowledge of planning, scheduling and spare part inventory in maintenance department environment.

* Ability to generate spreadsheets (MS Excel), presentations (MS PowerPoint) and word documents (MS Word).

* Knowledge of databases, queries, pivot tables and charts.

How Prolacta benefits you

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From up to 100% healthcare coverage on your first day, to discretionary stock options and 401(k) match, we value our employees' health and financial wellbeing. We offer four weeks PTO during your first year of employment and support our new parents with a generous time-off program. We encourage employees to participate in our employee affinity groups, take volunteer time off, and provide access to different educational opportunities.

What else do you need to know

Location: City of Industry, CA; Duarte, CA

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7am - 4pm

Travel: 10%-20%

FLSA: Non-Exempt

In an effort to minimize the spread of the coronavirus and to protect our employees, all new hires in the U.S. will need to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by their hire date with Prolacta Bioscience unless eligible for an accommodation as provided by law.

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Physical Requirements

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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to effectively communicate (e.g., talking/ hearing), walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, feel and reach things. The employee is occasionally required to taste, smell, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Employee will frequently lift and/or move up to fifty pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Sedentary to light work; repetitive motions; pushing; pulling; visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures, transcribe, view a computer terminal.

EEO Statement

"Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer." Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is committed to a proactive program of affirmative action and diversity development. The Company will continue to recruit, hire, train, and promote into all job levels without regard to race, religion, gender, marital status, familial status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, or vet