Maintenance Planner & Storeroom Specialist

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RESPONSIBILITIES & EXPECTATIONS:

Manage Preventive Maintenance Program at the plant level:

• Plan, schedule and coordinate corrective and preventive maintenance activities. Work with plant management to continuously upgrade PMs, tasks, and equipment tables.
• Assist with purchasing function of parts needed to perform repairs and maintenance.
• Ensure CMMS software data files are complete and current.
• Manage a current back log of needed repairs. Develop a weekly schedule and assist the Maintenance Supervisor in determining job priorities.
• Supervise and directs the maintenance staff and provides on-site expertise. In the absence of the supervisor.

Plan major equipment outage schedules utilizing MS Project:

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate maintenance crew and or contractors to perform major equipment outages such as kiln, hydrate, and crushing plant systems. Assist purchasing to procure parts for major outages.
• Develop cost estimates for major jobs and track actual vs. budgeted spending for major jobs and outages.
• Develop 1 year and 3-year major equipment outage plans in Excel or MS Project format. Assist Maintenance Managers and Plant Engineer to develop budget and capex plans for future years.

Identify, analyze and review maintenance problems with management:

• Submit and review backlog list with priorities to all department heads.
• Coordinate availability of manpower, parts, materials, equipment.
• Work with Storeroom to perform material kitting for planned jobs.

Reporting:

• Post daily, weekly and monthly Key Performance Indicators and trends.
• Report on Performance versus goals.
• Close out work orders daily and input actual hours.

Storeroom:

• Order parts and plant consumables in a timely manner. This includes requisitioning of parts, receiving of parts, and issuing of parts from the storeroom to ensure correct inventory counts.
• Assist the maintenance manager with vendor management.
• Receive, inspect, count verify incoming materials against packing lists.
• Receive and store incoming materials at the proper shelving protected from outside elements.
• Group and organize incoming materials for specific work orders.
• Maintain organization within the storeroom and maintenance shop (bolt and pipe drawers).
• Rotate electric motors shafts on a quarterly base.
• Participate in daily goods issues, MRP, cycle count and creation of work orders.
• Receive and notify requestors that material ordered has arrived, stage this material in specific shelving and organize it by Work Order or by requestor. 
• Deliver material at equipment repairs. 
• Coordinate delivery of materials for maintenance work orders. 
• Participate, control and track repairs for reconditioned stock items.
• Handle gas cylinders empty and full.
• Repair and maintain storeroom equipment.

Safe Quality Food (SQF)

• Ensure a SQF workplace and follow regulatory compliance with Federal FDA – Food Modernization Safety Act (CFR Code of Federal Regulations Title 21, Part 507).
• Support Environmental Health and Safety, as well as SQF initiatives and awareness programs.
• Be a leader and promoter of employee safety and SQF culture.
• Following completion of SQF training, demonstrate understanding of expected safety, SQF performance and Food Safety Culture.
• Complete periodic SQF training(s).
• Each site location will ensure training is conducted for new employees and continued for existing employees.
• Employees will actively participate in audits for regulatory, safety, SQF and environmental compliance at the site.

ATTRIBUTES:

• Knowledge and application in the management of maintenance labor / equipment data and use of the CMMS system is essential.
• Formal training in the maintenance planning and scheduling function is desired.
• Good organization, time management, communication and people skills are a must.
• Knowledge of MS Word and Excel is required.  SAP and MS Project experience is a plus.
• Maintenance supervisory experience would be beneficial.
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