Maintenance Planner - Chattanooga, TN / Plant 1

Role Summary

The Maintenance Planner will assist plant staff by planning preventive and correction maintenance actions on key process equipment and facilities. The Maintenance Planner will be a key player in downtime reduction efforts by developing the preventive maintenance program based on equipment conditions and uptime performance. The Maintenance Planner will make recommendations on training, equipment improvements, and preventive maintenance schedules based on OEM requirements and lessons learned during normal operation.

Key Responsibilities

* Generate daily, weekend, and shutdown maintenance schedules.

* Work with maintenance and production supervision to schedule maintenance activities based on equipment, manpower, and spare parts availability.

* Review all completed work orders and ensure items requiring follow up are acted upon appropriately and assist in tracking these actions required to completion.

* Provide reports and trending as required to drive a data driven approach to continuous improvement.

* Assist in locating and purchasing materials required to complete maintenance activities.

* Identify material requirements for planned maintenance activities and assist in preparing materials for work to be completed

* Help coordinate predictive maintenance activities such as infrared, vibration, and oil analysis. Ensure proper follow up work orders are generated based on these reports.

* Manage the CMMS system and provide training to technicians and supervisors as required.

* Assist with maintaining and organizing the plant's technical library ensuring all technical manuals are readily available when needed.

* Participation in the Layered Process Audit schedule.

* Participation in the Internal ISO 9001/IATF 16949 Audit schedule (applies only to certified ISO 9001/IATF 16949 internal auditors).

* Participation and cooperation in answering questions and providing information for internal and external audits regarding or related to ISO 9001/IATF 16949, VDA 6.3, and customer standards.

Knowledge and Education

* Four years college degree in Engineering or similar is preferred.

* 8-10 years industrial maintenance experience in automotive industry - preferably metal stamping and assembly.

* Experience with CMMS programs - preferably SAP PM

Key Qualifications/Requirements

* CMMS Operation

* Microsoft Office skills to include: Excel, Word, Outlook, Powerpoint

* Working knowledge of electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic components

* Strong organizational and interpersonal skills

* AutoCAD skills are a plus

Additional Information

* Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

* While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to handle, manipulate, or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, talk and hear

* Employee must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds

* While performing the duties of the job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardless of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.

About us

We are a multi-technology company present in over 20 countries and our team of over 40,000 is made up of 90 different nationalities. They are the driving force of our company, which designs, develops and produces parts for over 900 models of the leading vehicle manufacturers, and enable us to be one of the top suppliers worldwide.

Do you have what it takes to build the future of mobility with us?

* You will be joining a leading international group in the automotive sector with a clear commitment to innovation, a trail-blazer in Industry 4.0 and engaged with ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria.

* This is an opening to build a career in a global environment with many opportunities to grow both professionally and personally by participating and leading innovative and international projects.

* You will find a supportive and friendly environment where the emphasis is on team work, continuous improvement, trust, a dynamic spirit and thinking outside the box, and a passion for a job well done.

* You will be working with highly qualified professionals as Gestamp is committed to the ongoing training of our teams.

Join the Gestamp team!