Maintenance Planner

Overview

Why Choose Us?

 

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

 

Our Sustainability Commitment

 

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Responsibilities

Maintenance Planner |Raleigh|HIRING IMMEDIATELY

 

Available Shifts:

• Day Shift 7a-3p (flexible)

 

 

The Maintenance planner is the principal contact and liaison person between the maintenance department and the plant departments served by maintenance and ensures that the production areas or functions to which he/she is assigned receive prompt, efficient and quality service from the maintenance function and ensures the maintenance function is given the opportunity to provide this service.

• The planner receives all work orders from the requesting departments of the areas to which he/she is assigned, which are logged and passed to the appropriate maintenance for immediate attention.
• Reviews and screens each work order to see that is has been properly filled out:
  • Work scope clearly described
  • Check if the priority and target date are realistic and provide practical lead time
  • Asset numbers and other coding are complete and accurate
  • Discusses the details with the originating department as appropriate
• Ensures that work requested is needed. If need is questioned and not readily resolved with production or requesting personnel, refers the work order to the maintenance manager.
• Reviews with engineering those work orders requiring engineering design.
• Examines jobs to be done and determines best way to accomplish the work. Consults with requester or maintenance supervisor when necessary.
• Identifies and obtains (requisitions, orders, kits as appropriate and in keeping with procedures) determinable materials, entering material needs on the work order.
• Ensures the safety needs are given a top priority in work planning.
• Creates job plans, the number of mechanics and required man hours.
• Attends meetings with the production planning department and participates in the overall plant scheduling of the following week’s work, and negotiates for downtime “windows” during which preventive and corrective maintenance requiring downtime can be performed. Finalizes own schedules for which he/she is responsible, ensuring that the work scheduled balances with the manhours available so that a full day’s work is provided each person.
• Maintains backlog files of work orders waiting scheduling in accordance with their priority limits with an estimated completion date. Those unplanned, requiring engineering, waiting for materials, waiting for downtime, etc., are filed accordingly.
• Once a job is planned and estimated, prior to scheduling, verifies the availability of parts, materials and special tools required for its execution.
• Planner should have complete knowledge of each department’s PM workload in order to better schedule work orders in that area.
• Reviews the estimate of the current day’s schedule status and forecast of manpower availability on a daily basis.
• In the selection of jobs for scheduling, meeting the deadlines established by the requesting department and maintaining preventive maintenance schedules is essential. If any work orders cannot be scheduled within the prescribed priority lead time, the requesting department management and the requester are promptly notified so that appropriate action can be taken to get the work done in a satisfactory and timely manner.
• Recommends equipment to be included in preventive maintenance programs.
• Plans and schedules preventive maintenance work in coordination with production and maintenance supervisors.
• On the basis of firm work schedules, coordinates requisition of all predetermined parts, materials and special tools and ensures that equipment to be worked on will be available and ready. Arranges for any safety inspection, fire and standby watch.
• Issues approved schedules together with relevant work