Maintenance Planner Scheduler

Flagstone Foods:

At Flagstone Foods, we believe appreciation grows goodness. We have an appreciation for our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we live. Appreciation is our main ingredient! 

Headquartered in the North Loop of Minneapolis with plants in Robersonville, North Carolina, El Paso, Texas, and Dothan, Alabama, we are one of North America’s largest manufacturers and distributors of “feel good snacks,” like flavorful snack nuts, innovative trail mixes and wholesome dried fruits…and we are adding to our team! We hire creative, thoughtful, and entrepreneurial team members. If you share our enthusiasm and appreciation for goodness, you too may find a home with Flagstone Foods. 

Position Summary

Responsible for prioritizing, scheduling, tracking, and communicating maintenance work.

Essential Functions

• Principal contact and liaison between the maintenance department and all associated departments plant-wide, i.e., Food Safety, Operations, Sanitation, and outside vendors.
• Review work requests from all areas of the plant to determine validity and accuracy of information, engage with maintenance leadership assigned to those specific areas to set preliminary priorities.
• Identify work orders that may require additional engineering review with the maintenance leadership.
• Escalate maintenance issues that are identified during daily pre-op that could interrupt production.
• Data entry into the maintenance software system, spare parts, drawings, maintenance manuals.
• Obtain and organize all drawings, manuals, and standardized procedures appropriate for the applicable maintenance crafts to perform the work.
• Identify and secure all parts, tools, and materials required to complete jobs through the stores system.
• Work closely and professionally with the Parts Room Manager and Maintenance Superintendents to optimize spare parts availability.
• Receive on all outside contractor labor that has been awarded. Ensure that the scope is understood, follow-up on completed work, document deficiencies and communicate to senior leadership (if any) before approval and forwarding for payment.
• Track operational reports to identify and communicate trends in downtime, production rates, and quality metrics.
• Follow up with supervisors and ensure that completed work assignments are turned in with improvement comments in a timely fashion.
• Keep accurate metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and provide timely reports to maintenance leadership.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned. 

Qualifications (Education/Experience)

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required. 
• 2-year degree/Associate’s degree preferred, or 3-5 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• 5 years’ experience in responsibility for a manufacturing setting or equivalent knowledge / exposure; food processing experience a plus but not required. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence and persuade others.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations. 
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence. 
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from management and employees. 
• Ability to read and interpret documents in the English language such as safety files, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to apply mathematical applications to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. 
• Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical, diagram, written and/or verbal form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Strong personal computer skills and understanding of operational metrics and reports required; MP2 CMMS desired; CAD experience a plus. MPS/SFK equipment understanding, both mechanically and electrically strongly desired. 
• SQF/HACCP certification preferred.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described within the Essential Functions section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform this job. Other duties or tasks may be assigned as required. Management may modify, change, or add to the duties of this description at any time without notice. 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to:

• Communicate with others both verbally and in writing. 
• Be independently mobile.
• Use a computer and keyboard.
• Regularly sit, stand, walk, reach, stretch, stoop, bend, for extended periods.
• Ability to lift/carry 25 to 50 lbs.
• Exposure to noise levels requiring hearing protection.

Supervises - No

FLSA Designation: This position is a Salaried Exempt and not eligible for overtime.

Work Location: El Paso, TX – travel expected less than 10%

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.