Maintenance Planner

Job Title: Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

About Us:

ASR Group is the world's largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, producing a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products across North America and Europe.

Overview:

The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler plays a key role in improving work force productivity and quality by eliminating potential delays and obstacles. This position is responsible for planning and scheduling all maintenance work performed in the assigned area, maintaining liaison and coordination between operations and packaging/maintenance organizations.

Detailed Roles & Responsibilities:

• Main contact and liaison person between packaging maintenance department and other plant departments, ensuring prompt, efficient and quality service from both departments.
• Plan future maintenance work to reduce potential delays and maximize maintenance workforce efficiency.
• Receive and review work orders, developing work plans based on requests and field inspections.
• Mate jobs showing sequence of steps, number of tradespersons, and required labor hours for each step.
• Identify and obtain materials, entering material needs on the work order.
• Maintain backlog files of work orders waiting scheduling in accordance with priority limits.
• Verify availability of parts, materials, and special tools required for execution before scheduling.
• Develop and maintain a maintenance work schedule for the maintenance area supervisor.
• Follow up and review completed schedules and work orders.
• Coordinate daily, weekly and monthly scheduling of maintenance plans.
• Develop standard work order plans for regularly recurring repair jobs to simplify the planning process.
• Plan, schedule, and execute the planned preventative maintenance schedule.
• Responsible for ordering parts according to lead times.
• Procure required outside services as needed.
• Update SAP Plant Maintenance systems.
• Monitor effectiveness of the preventive and predictive maintenance program to minimize plant breakdowns.
• Prepare and distribute meaningful control reports.
• Maintain good labor relations and team morale.
• Ensure personnel follow all GMP and safety policies.

Requirements:

• 3 years of maintenance experience within a manufacturing facility or equivalent military experience required.
• Experience operating SAP Plant Maintenance system preferred.
• Mechanical/Electrical background necessary.
• Planning/Scheduling experience within a manufacturing facility.
• Adequate trade knowledge to estimate labor hours, materials, and visualize the job to be performed.

Education Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related field preferred.
• Technical School background desired.

Relationships:

This role reports to the Packaging Manager and works closely with operations and packaging supervisors, stores and purchasing personnel.

Essential Capabilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated capability to influence stakeholders and drive results through others.
• Intermediate or better skills in Microsoft Office required.
• Strong organization skills, attention to detail, ability to be proactive and self-directed.