Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

Rousselot, Inc. is the world's leading producer of gelatin and is a recognized partner in the pharmaceutical and food industries. The Peabody facility operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is seeking to hire a full-time Maintenance Planner/Scheduler. This position earns a competitive wage and excellent benefits! Our benefits include medical, dental, vision, a 401k plan with company match and safe harbor. Do you want a successful career in manufacturing with a company that cares? Do you have a broad spectrum of maintenance experience? If so, you may be perfect for this position!

Summary: As an integral part of the Maintenance Management Team, the Maintenance Planner/Scheduler is responsible for supporting all of the goals and directives of the Maintenance Department Head. The primary responsibility of the Maintenance Planner is to support efficient maintenance operations by managing, maintaining, and directing the planning and scheduling processes used by the maintenance department. Other duties include managing the flow and accuracy of maintenance work orders and purchase orders from cradle to grave. Supervises Maintenance personnel and directs maintenance activities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Safety

• Observes, interprets, and actively supports and enforces safety procedures and policies.
• Monitors service providers and contractors to ensure compliance with safety policies.
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
• Advises management on opportunities to improve safety by:
  • Reporting unsafe conditions or activities.
  • Determining appropriate actions beyond guidelines.
• Provides guidance on the proper use of equipment and materials.
• Monitors service providers and contractors to ensure compliance with safety policies.
• Assist Safety and Health coordinator, providing technical support and advice.

Security

• Observes and actively supports food defense programs and policies.
• Maintains buildings and structures in support of facility security objectives.

Quality

• Observes and actively supports organizational quality objectives and policies.
• Looks for ways to improve and promote quality.
• Applies feedback to improve quality performance within the maintenance department.
• Monitors own work to ensure quality.

• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness in the performance of duties.
• Follows all food safety procedures and practices to promote our food safety culture.

Purchasing

• Performs as needed; all aspects of material and supply procurement for the maintenance function, this includes but is not limited to:
  • Soliciting vendors and obtaining competitive bids where appropriate.
  • Issuing purchase orders and placing orders for needed materials.
  • Monitoring Vendor delivery performance and verifying receipt of materials.
  • Order parts and equipment properly and in a timely matter to reduce downtime.
  • Ensure when parts are purchased, they are tied to a work order using the J.D Edwards CMMS system.
  • Work with the maintenance team to ensure correct parts are being ordered.
  • Approve invoices sent from vendors to make sure they have correct information before sending into corporate.
  • Monitors maintenance purchase orders to ensure accuracy and that purchasing policies are adhered to throughout the process.

Spare Parts and Inventory

Assists maintenance purchasing functions to ensure adequate parts inventory and spares to minimize downtime due to lack of parts.

• Assists in the development (and enforces) policies and procedures to manage and control inventory accuracy and costs.
• Tracks maintenance related parts and equipment being shipped in and out of the plant.
• Ensures parts are entered, stored, and tracked in inventory and the J.D Edwards CMMS system.
• Performs monthly cycle counts to ensure inventory is correct.
• Creates new part numbers and locations for new items being kept on shelf for stock.
• Makes sure inventory is stored in an orderly fashion, every part should have a specific loca