Job Description

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Internal Title: Asset Care Planner

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The role of the maintenance/asset care planner is to improve workforce productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labor, parts and material, and equipment access! The maintenance planner prepares work plans for individual jobs and assists the maintenance manager in preparing work schedules and reports. The maintenance planner is to make decisions on behalf of the business for the specific business object. These decisions should be made in conjunction with input from the business and workstreams.

Role Responsibilities:

• Will use all available resources to complete maintenance and repair activities in the most effective and efficient way.
• The planner will prioritize and assign resources in conjunction with preventative and corrective maintenance activities. Establish positive relationships with plant personnel and contacts outside the plant to effectively and efficiently carry out responsibilities.
• Search for parts in inventory.
• Provide information and reporting for weekly and periodic maintenance planning meetings.
• Participates in developing and assisting in communicating short-range and medium-range maintenance plans.
• Review and screen maintenance requests for completeness, accuracy, necessity and priority and obtain approvals.
• Resolve the best way to accomplish maintenance jobs while limiting disruption to production through knowledge, research, consultation and site visits.
• Plan individual jobs by establishing logical steps and dependencies, provide drawings for jobs, arrange for special tools and equipment, resource and skill requirements, parts materials and contract service requirements.
• Prepare purchase requisitions via Work Orders, seek approvals as needed and monitor and expedite parts and materials delivery as needed.
• Assemble the planned job package, agree on scope with maintenance manager and schedule jobs for execution when all resources requirements are on site.
• Preparation of schedules, Gantt charts and management reports for shutdowns (major and minor). Develop planner reference systems including a file of planned job packages for recurring jobs, plus labor and material libraries for each equipment center.
• Interpret and provide historical equipment cost information.
• Make recommendations for system improvement.
• Establish equipment-numbering system and number all equipment.
• Develop PM program and procedures for each piece of equipment.
• Develop task lists for existing & new equipment.
• Ensure accuracy of equipment bills of materials.
• Maintain equipment history in the CMMS(SAP) as detailed and complete as possible.
• Review equipment history for trends and recommend improvements.
• Keep equipment listing and backlog up to date and clean.
• Keep backlog up to date and clean.
• Ensure drawings are revised and kept current.
• Assist with development of annual overhaul schedule. Obtain agreement and publish the weekly maintenance schedules.
• Support maintenance work execution and cover for Maintenance Team leads when needed including Off shifts (Afternoon and Midnight shift)

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• BA/BS in area of responsibility, preferably in engineering, or equivalent training and experience.
• Knowledge of maintenance management and project management.
• Detailed knowledge of equipment maintenance requirements and ability to describe what is to be accomplished.
• Good Planning and Estimating Skills.
• High interpersonal effectiveness to develop and sustain positive relationships with coworkers, and strong customer service orientation.
• Knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems. Proficient in the use of computer software tools (Spreadsheets, project planning, presentation software, statistical process control, word processing and data-base). SAP experience is desirable.
• Experience planning, repair WO, and procurement of materials with SAP.
• Functional knowledge of packaging, processing, and utilities maintenance and how they interact in an operations environment.
• Strong time management and prioritizing skills, as well as the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced customer-driven environment.

Worker Type : Regular

Primary Location: Amherstburg Plant

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Job Posting Start Date : 2023-02-21-08:00