Sr. Specialist, Planner Scheduler Maintenance & Calibration

VARITE is looking for a qualified Sr. Specialist, Planner Scheduler Maintenance & Calibration in Fremont, CA.

WHAT THE CLIENT DOES?

An American-headquartered life science and clinical research company. It is a global supplier of analytical instruments, clinical development solutions, specialty diagnostics, laboratory, pharmaceutical and biotechnology services.

WHAT WE DO?

Established in the Year 2000, VARITE is an award-winning minority business enterprise providing global consulting & staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. With 850 global consultants, VARITE is committed to delivering excellence to its customers by leveraging its global experience and expertise in providing comprehensive scientific, engineering, technical, and non-technical staff augmentation and talent acquisition services.

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Planner Scheduler Maintenance & Calibration

Location: Fremont, CA

Contract Duration: 12 months

Pay Rate: $45 - $50/hr on W2

Shift: M-F: 1st Shift (7:00 AM – 4:00 PM)

HERE'S WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Duties:

• Schedule and coordinate maintenance activities between operations, maintenance, engineering and contractors

• Plans future maintenance work to reduce potential delays and maximize maintenance workforce "wrench time”. Is responsible for co-ordination and support of work that has been started.

• Identifies and co-ordinates necessary resources, with sufficient lead time prior to the start of the work to ensure those resources can be scheduled when needed, for effective and efficient execution of the work. Necessary resources can include:

o Work scope and job instructions;

o Technical information – e.g. drawing, manuals;

o MRO parts and materials – e.g. MRO stores, parts / material to be purchased;

o Special tools and equipment – e.g. mobile / heavy equipment, precision tools;

o Special permitting – e.g. confined space, "hot work”, etc.

o Minimum skill levels and quantity of human resources required

o Production operating conditions

• Ensures safety needs are given a top priority in work planning and scheduling.

Skills:

• Develops work plans based upon work request and field inspection of the work site.

• Identifies what work is to be done and critical resources required.

• Estimate level of effort (man-hours) required by skill, work duration, and cost of parts and material required.

• Ensures completed schedules and work orders are returned promptly and that all completed work orders are filled out completely.

• Reviews actual work effort required, work duration, and parts and materials used. Reviews comments provided by those involved in the work. Revise work plans as needed to improve effectiveness of future work.

• Performs job reviews to ensure actual work performed and performed maintenance testing was adequate; identifies changes needed to PM program (based on activity results) and/or changes to

• equipment design and/or inventory management practices to optimize the overall maintenance process

• Publishes a weekly list of approved and planned maintenance work.

• Develops equipment efficiency and expected life span

• Reviews equipment history on approved corrective work orders. Identifies situations with repeat failures. Identifies problem situations to operations, maintenance, and engineering for resolution.

• Work closely with maintenance and equipment owner to address cost to repair and/or replace

• Updates CMMS system as required to ensure adequate preventative maintenance

• Ensure storeroom efficiency

• Reserves or procures critical parts and materials required, as appropriate (i.e. standard MRO stores item, or purchase item). Arrange staging / kitting of parts and materials, as appropriate.

• Reviews stock levels of maintenance items and communicate changes to maintenance / parts Inventory control.

• This position also requires working knowledge of relevant BI processes and guidelines as well as Site/Local and Corporate Policies and Procedures.

• Excellent interpersonal, planning, organizing, time management and problem solving/decision making skills.

• Must be autonomous and self-motivated.

• Must be able to work under pressure in emergencies situations.

• Must be able to communicate effectively.

Interfaces:

• Procures required outside services.

• Ensures dialogue with EHS, Production, Engineering and Maintenance departments on specific concerns.

• Work closely with Procurement with service agreements and contracts as required.

• Creates, provides and drives KPI reports.

• Drives and manages QDCI sessions.

• Must be able to understand CMMS architecture.

Computer literacy:

• Basics in Microsoft Office pack (Excel, Word, Project, Visio and PowerPoint)

• Oracle SAP, Maximo and COMOS experience

• Time Sheet approvals

• Must be able to sort data, drive KPI analyses.

• Must be able to understand basic maintenance systems and procedures

• Increase of tool time

• Reduction of equipment break down duration

• Reduction of production delays

• ERP (Oracle / SAP) experience

• CMMS experience

Education:

• AS/AA degree in an engineering, maintenance or related discipline and /or equivalent experience required with progressive experience in an industrial setting.

• Minimum of four years of manufacturing experience

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VARITE is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.