Maintenance Planner Scheduler

Looking for a rewarding career with a Company that believes employees are the most important asset? At WE Soda, we pride ourselves in fostering a collaborative work environment where employees can sharpen and expand their skills, while receiving a competitive wage and maintaining a good work-life balance. We are taking steps to attract and retain talented and motivated salaried entry-level and experienced individuals. Come utilize your skills and contribute to the continued success of our underground mine and surface operations!

Operating successfully in Green River, Wyoming, WE Soda is the world’s largest natural soda ash mine and production site, offering a secure, reliable, and diverse range of high-quality product choices. WE Soda mines and processes trona ore and manufactures soda ash that is used in the production of glass, detergents, chemical manufacturing, pulp and paper production, and water treatment. In addition, the company also produces sodium bicarbonate and other chemical compounds used in common industrial, agricultural, and household applications.

Why Join WE Soda?
• Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Medical, Dental, Life & Disability Insurance, Vision, Flexible Spending (Medical and Dependent Care) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Pre-paid Legal, beginning first day of employment: company funds a portion of HSA.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan for salaried employees, the company makes Safe Harbor matching contributions (fully vested immediately) of 100% up to the first 5% of eligible pay you contribute; additionally, the company makes discretionary contributions up to 5% of eligible pay in the first quarter of the following year (three-year vesting requirement).
• Tuition reimbursement programs are available to qualifying employees for approved programs.
• Subsidized transportation to our plant from Green River, Rock Springs, and Bridger Valley.
• Flexible schedules may be available dependent on position.


Position Title: Maintenance Planner Scheduler
Location: Green River, WY
Note: This position is assigned to the Granger facility, business need will determine any future assignments.
Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for work requests, manages back log in SAP, scopes & plans work orders, creates job packets, procures materials, and prioritizes and schedules work to maximize process up-time and minimize material costs and contractor services.
• Tracks all work notifications and conversion of these notifications to work orders and plays a pivotal role in gatekeeping the work notifications with production
• Ensure value added notification/ work order. A value-added work order meets requirements for: added value, scope, completeness of information, prioritization and need date and complies with the Maintenance Reporting Business Rules. Any gaps in the performance of the process have been identified and measurements are in place to drive the performance improvement.
• Determines resources and parts needed for maintenance work orders
• Orders parts and ensure completeness of kitting jobs for execution
• Develops and maintains work procedures associated with maintenance jobs
• Manages repairable parts (920s)
• Maintains accurate and timely status codes on work orders to facilitate the scheduling process
• Accountable KPI’s associated with efficiency and effectiveness of work order execution – PM, Schedule Compliance
• Responsible for master data integrity
• Know and understand the Union Contract
Activities:
• Plans all maintenance work including scoping all jobs, determining resource requirements, ordering parts, and completeness of kitting jobs for execution
• Ensure good linkage exists between the schedule and material availability.
• Proper communication with production to ensure equipment is ready for safe execution of the maintenance work in line with the schedule.
• Creates and maintains all job plans, procedures and checklists for planned work including incorporation of best practices
• Responsible for planning and scheduling of daily and weekly area maintenance plans and integration with plant production plans
• Responsible for planning and scheduling for plant outages
• Maintains accurate and timely status codes on work orders to facilitate the scheduling process
• Track workflow KPI’s to drive work efficiency improvements
• Participate in KPI meetings prepared with reasons for success and causes/solutions for performance deviations
• Partners with Production in daily and weekly scheduling meetings to ensure equipment availability and job readiness
• Orders all parts for each job and check kits for each job for execution
• Tracks all work notifications and works closely with production to facilitate