Job Title: Maintenance Planner

Job Description

• Improve workforce productivity and work quality by eliminating potential delays and obstacles in advance. - Responsible for planning and scheduling all maintenance work performed in the plant. - Maintain liaison and coordination between the operations and maintenance organizations. - Act as the main contact and liaison person between the maintenance department and other plant departments. - Ensure that the plant receives prompt, efficient, and quality service from the maintenance department. - Plan future maintenance work to reduce potential delays and maximize maintenance workforce efficiency. - Knowledge of SQF, GMP’s, SOP’s, HACCP, and other food process sanitation requirements. - Report any/all food safety or food quality issues immediately to management or QA. - Maintain close contact with the Maintenance Manager to ensure maintenance activities occur with minimal disruption to production operations. - Review and screen each work order to ensure it is properly filled out and that the work requested is needed. - Maintain discipline by being self-motivated, having tolerance, and exacting standards. - Develop work plans based on work requests and field inspections, indicating the scope of work and identifying critical resources required. - Identify and obtain materials, entering material needs on the work order. - Maintain backlog files of work orders waiting for scheduling. - Verify the availability of parts, materials, and special tools required for execution before scheduling. - Follow up and review completed schedules and work orders. - Coordinate weekly scheduling of maintenance plans. - Develop standard work order plans for regularly recurring repair jobs. - Responsible for ordering parts. - Monitor the effectiveness of the PM program to minimize plant breakdowns. - Estimate jobs, showing the sequence of steps, the number of technicians, and required labor hours for each step. - Identify, collect, organize, and document work order job steps with operations resources, tools, and materials required to safely and effectively execute maintenance work, improving equipment availability and maintenance efficiency. - Own and maintain the CMMS system at the facility. - Facilitate maintenance productivity to ensure safe and quality work execution through clear job plan development. - Act as the primary point of contact between maintenance, engineering, and operations for identifying and correcting maintenance processes. - Identify and implement improvements in the planning process to reduce annual maintenance costs. - Delegate maintenance shift scheduling, work order backlog, and recommended planning for scheduled downtime work, including scheduling the availability of parts. - Schedule full days of work for each technician to maximize labor usage. - Maintain equipment records in CMMS. - Set up and maintain all predictive and preventative maintenance plans in CMMS to maximize equipment reliability. - Set up PM plans in CMMS for each piece of equipment, including frequency, mechanic tasks, parts needs, tools needed, and safety procedures. - Monitor and report if PM work is being completed to maintain equipment reliability and comply with regulations and audits. - Plan and schedule corrective work to maximize crew utilization and effectiveness. - Review work requests, collaborate with the requestor, and create work orders. - Plan the work, including estimated labor by craft (Mech, Elect), and special equipment or permits needed. - Identify, reserve, and purchase parts and services. - Prepare job plans and work order packets for mechanics. - Coordinate with production and sanitation to plan weekend work while minimizing scheduled overtime. - Requires hands-on maintenance experience.

Hard Skills

• Maintenance Planner

• Maintenance Scheduler

• CMMS

Soft Skills

• Self-motivated

• Tolerance

• Exacting standards

Job Type

This is a permanent position.

Work Site

This is a fully on-site position in Liberty, South Carolina.

Work Environment

1st Shift, Climate controlled, FDA regulated

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.