Maintenance Planner

Job Title: Maintenance Planner

Department: General Maintenance

Reports To: Maintenance Manager

Substitute: Maintenance Manager and/or Maintenance Supervisor(s)

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 Come join our team as a Maintenance Planner! We started with pastries handmade by Lois and Lloyd Martin inside of a garage and we have boomed into a multi-facility company where our many products are produced by machines and shipped domestically and internationally. Talk about a rich history and exciting future! As an employer of choice we offer physical, emotional, financial and professional benefits including 401k, disability insurance and paid holidays.

Summary: As a member of the Martin's Family, the Maintenance Planner is primarily responsible for the planning and preparing in advance for a successful completion of future maintenance work.  This take a project management perspective and is the process of establishing the sequence and relationship of a series of actions and requirements prior to maintenance work commencing, along with the procuring and providing the parts and resources needed to deliver the work plan.  Scheduling is the settling of order and time for planned events.  Scheduling involves taking decisions regarding the allocation of available capacity or resources to jobs, activities, and tasks over time.  Scheduling thus results in a time phased plan or schedule of activities.  The schedule indicated what is to be done, when, by whom, and with what equipment.  Scheduling seeks to achieve several conflicting objectives; high-efficiency, low inventory and good customer service.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Prioritizes and delegates maintenance work based on available time and resources.
• Keeps accurate records of maintenance work to show effectiveness, backlog, equipment analysis and demand on resources.
• Ensures parts and labor resources are available when scheduling for a job to be performed.
• Provides Maintenance Manager with a weekly report of planned events, backlog and suggested changes to the preventative maintenance schedule based off of failure analysis.
• The responsibilities of maintaining and testing of the maintenance management software (EAM).
• Scheduling of workforce, including vacations, personal days, and birthdays.
• Scheduling of any additional labor needed to complete projects or tasks with managers direction.
• Conducts routine system audits of timekeeping system, inventory management system, and maintenance management software.
• Understand how to use the inventory system and manage transactions in Oracle.
• Adheres to and enforces safety, food safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices regulations.
• Reports safety, food safety, and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or GED;
• Two years planner or scheduler experience;
• Four years’ related maintenance experience.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.  Ability to write simple correspondence.  Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but