Maintenance Planner

Milliken & Company is a global manufacturing leader whose focus on materials science delivers tomorrow’s breakthroughs today. From industry-leading molecules to sustainable innovations, Milliken creates products that enhance people’s lives and deliver solutions for its customers and communities. Drawing on thousands of patents and a portfolio with applications across the textile, flooring, chemical and healthcare businesses, the company harnesses a shared sense of integrity and excellence to positively impact the world for generations. Discover more about Milliken’s curious minds and inspired solutions at Milliken.com and on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This position is located at the Milliken Chemical Plant located in Gainesville, FL, and reports to the Maintenance Supervisor. The Maintenance Planner responsible for the day-to-day support of the maintenance work order process, including but not limited to generating detailed job scopes including an estimation of all resources required.

 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages workflow processes including screening work requests and converting to work orders
• Develops work order packages that include:
• Scope of work
• Pertinent specifications, instructions, and safety information such that competent craftsperson can perform the work without questions
• Expected material requirements, including kitting and delivery/staging instructions
• Tools and equipment required for the job
• accurate locations of work and materials
• Required permits (safety, environmental, work process, etc.)
• Estimates for labor, time, and costs
• Determines availability of materials and resources as required, writing purchase requisitions within the work order package as needed. Coordinate with MRO to ensure all necessary replacement parts and consumables are on hand before releasing work to be scheduled.
• Complete scopes of work for bidding work to contractors for jobs that will be contracted out.
• Develops a three-week schedule of upcoming maintenance work and coordinates with production by leading weekly planning and scheduling team meetings
• Leads outage planning within area of responsibility to include developing timeline, critical path, and additional work within the bounds of outage
• Coordinate with equipment rental vendors to ensure necessary equipment brought in on-time for scheduled work packages
• Accurately forecast available manhours for short term planning
• Manage contractor packages, including on-site orientation and safety training of contractors, certificates of insurance and contractor file