Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

  Do you want to take responsibility and make a difference with your work? With your expertise, we can achieve great goals together. We are WACKER - Reliable. Determined. Ambitious. As one of the world's most research-intensive chemical companies, we've been making countless products that are an integral part of your everyday life possible for over 100 years. From vegan food to resource-efficient buildings to solar cells, we develop sustainable solutions that change the future.   To strengthen our team in Charleston, we are looking for you as a(n) Maintenance Planner/Scheduler.

 

This is Us:

You know us. You just didn’t know it. WACKER is a global chemical manufacturer that prides itself on “Creating Tomorrow’s Solutions”. WACKER materials are so versatile and adaptable, they have virtually unlimited applications just about anywhere imaginable, making WACKER an integral part of daily life. Whether it’s protecting buildings from the elements, a tube of toothpaste, a cell phone, airbags, or cosmetics, people from all over the world come into contact each day with our products and achievements. We are looking for capable, innovative, and enthusiastic achievers to join our team and grow with us. We are currently seeking a Maintenance Planner for our site in Charleston, TN.

 

What you will do:

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for providing maintenance plans and schedules for predictive, preventive, routine, scheduled and emergency maintenance services to production, utility operations and infrastructure systems as necessary to provide for safe operations, regulatory compliance and equipment availability related to equipment and systems plant wide. This position is also responsible for assisting with the development of reliability-based maintenance strategy, based on preventative and predictive maintenance and will work directly with the Maintenance Manager to build and maintain a reliable CMMS system and maintenance team. The Planner will work independently and with other plant personnel such as plant engineering and operations representatives to perform preventative, predictive and routine maintenance tasks. The Planner is responsible for ordering spare parts and scheduling corrective maintenance in conjunction with production requirements.

 

• The Planner position requires hands on maintenance experience and will be utilized when needed.
• The Planner acts as the coordinator for planned activities and is one of the principal contacts between the maintenance, engineering, and operations departments. They help ensure the area, department, or facility in which they are assigned receives professional maintenance service in a timely manner.
• Plan and schedule maintenance services in order to maintain safe operating conditions of production units, utility, and infrastructure systems.
• Plan and schedule maintenance services in order to maintain regulatory compliance of production units, utility and infrastructure systems.
• Assist in the development of the maintenance group/organization and related guidelines, processes, and procedures.
• Train Maintenance Supervisors and Technicians on the planning and scheduling system used at WPNA.
• Plan and schedule maintenance activities in order to maintain PM and PdM program.
• Evaluate and schedule maintenance work utilizing CMMS software.
• Plan and schedule maintenance activities for 3rd party maintenance service providers