Maintenance Planner

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POSITION SUMMARY:

The maintenance planner will plan, schedule, and coordinate corrective and preventive maintenance activities.  Work with plant management to continuously upgrade PMs and ensure compliance with the PM program. Assist with the purchasing function to obtain parts and services for needed repairs and maintenance. Completed work orders both scheduled and unscheduled.

RESPONSIBILITIES & EXPECTATIONS:

Manage Preventative 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. This includes requisitioning of parts, receiving of parts, and issuing of parts from the warehouse to ensure correct inventory counts. 
• 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. 
• Assist purchasing to procure parts for major outages. 
• Develop cost estimates for major jobs and tracks 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 Manager to develop budget and capex plans for future years. 

Reporting: 

• Maintain records, charts, and indexes. Including but not limited to: MSHA records, Environmental records, and ISO records. 
• Post daily, weekly and monthly Key Performance Indicators and trends. 
• Report on Performance versus goals. 
• Close out work orders daily and input actual hours. 

Safety & Safe Quality Food (SQF) 

• Ensure a SQF workplace and in 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. Ensure team members have a clear understanding of expected safety performance
• Actively participate in audits for regulatory, safety, SQF and environmental compliance at the site. 

Training

• Upgrade skills by participating in vendor and company-designated training.
• Train on any new equipment installations.

Perform other duties as assigned. 

ATTRIBUTES:

• Must have an industrial background with excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Must be able to perform basic mathematical computations.
• Must have the ability to detect potential problems through observation in the field.
• Must have a telephone and be in on-call rotation.
• Self-motivated and must be able to work independently
• Excellent decision-making skills regarding safety.
• Must be able to tolerate working outside in severe weather conditions as well as exposure to high temperature, noise, and dust.
• Must be capable of working any shift, on-call, overtime, or seven days a week, if needed
• Must be willing to be hands-on and not afraid to perform other work assigned to help the team be successful
• Knowledge of necessary computer skills.
• Previous experience operating heavy equipment is desired.
• Ability to read, write, and interpret documents such as work orders, blueprints, mechanical drawings, safety rules, standard operating procedures, maintenance instructions, and procedural manuals.
• Knowledgeable of current environmental regulations and practices as they relate to the lime industry.
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