Maintenance Planner – Decatur Corn Plant, Decatur IL

Job Description

Maintenance Planner – Decatur Corn Plant, Decatur IL
This is Salary Exempt position. 

Job Summary

• Responsible for planning and coordinating manpower, parts, materials and equipment access to improve workforce productivity, safety and quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays.
• Acts as a liaison between Production and Maintenance departments for planning purposes.
• Uses Maximo and other computer systems to maintain records and files essential to meaningful analysis and reporting of maintenance information
• The Planner must know the job well enough that they can describe what is to be accomplished and can estimate how many man-hours will be required
• Communicate plans with all levels of the organization

• Strong commitment to Safety in the performance of maintenance efforts.
• Work independently and with other plant personnel to plan for preventative, predictive and routine maintenance tasks. Schedule for predictive and preventative maintenance repairs
• Complete data entry and management of equipment and repairs
• Communicate effectively through speech and writing along with other mediums such as email
• Strong organizational skills and ability to plan priorities effectively.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with all levels of the organization
• Maintain equipment information and repair files
• Track key planned maintenance metrics and communicate these metrics to the plant
• Manage assigned mechanical contract work and assist in the supervision and control
• Request parts and materials needed for work order packages and not stocked in the storerooms
• Ensure adherence to standard work processes, including developing and integrating standards
• Provide  support to the team on nights, weekends, or holidays including on-call duties
• Review the work plan with the respective site managers/​supervisors/​leads, and maintain communications for planned maintenance​
• Create detailed job planning and communicate weekly maintenance work schedules which include: outage schedule, list of planned work orders, and resource requirements
• Evaluates JSA requirements and requests support to develop when needed
• Maintain clear, open communication with departments/requestor to determine total scope of work and the appropriate priority of work to be performed
• Manage and understand the maintenance back log
• Develop and manage AFEs for the facility
• Ability to facilitate and run maintenance oriented meetings along with pre and post project review meetings
• Develop a strong understanding of facility work rules
• Develop a strong understanding of facility equipment
• Act as a liaison between ADM and third party vendors
• Ability to interpret maintenance manuals
• Ability to learn and use Maintenance programs such as Maximo, Coupa
• May perform reasonably similar or related duties as assigned

• Experience in industrial maintenance preferred
• Preferred Knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems
• Preferred Knowledge of planning software
• Preferred Typically a minimum 1 year of experience in maintenance/reliability planning & scheduling in a GMP/FDA-regulated area
• Proficient in the use of computer software tools (Email, spreadsheets, word processing and data-base)
• Communicate effectively through speech and writing along with other mediums such as email

• Chemicals / Irritants
• The scope of the position may have exposure to and use of chemicals, solvents, and cleaners that may be hazardous and/or cause injury if specific instructions regarding their mixture, use, and disposal/storage are not properly followed.

• Spring / Summer: Temperatures in some areas of the facility will be up to or exceed 100 degrees
• Fall / Winter:  Temperatures in the facility may be at or below freezing.

Outside areas:

• Spring / Summer: Outside temperature may be up to or exceed 100 degrees with potential for high humidity.   May be exposed to inclement weather conditions including, but not limited to, rain and wind.
• Fall / Winter:   Outside temperatures reaches freezing or below. May be exposed to inclement weather including, freezing rain, sleet, snow and wind.
• Some manufacturing processes within the facility are highly reliant on machinery and other processing equipment and, as a result, noise levels may reach or exceed 85 decibels and require use of hearing protection for most of the work shift.