Maintenance Planner

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for working closely with the Maintenance and Engineering team to implement tactical and strategic maintenance and reliability strategies for plant equipment, maintenance practices, and equipment commissioning. The Maintenance Planner will coordinate and implement proactive maintenance practices that are focused on continuous improvement in creating and maintaining processes to efficiently produce high quality water heaters.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, Technicians and Operations to ensure effective communication on plant equipment issues to optimize uptime.
• Work with production supervisors, engineers, and outside contractors to maximize plant efficiencies and machine up-time based on root cause investigation.
• Develop, evaluate, and implement preventative maintenance and predictive maintenance procedures and ensure their compliance.
• Review completed PM work orders to identify opportunities for improvement and create required work orders.
• Coordinate and perform PM audits to ensure proper execution.
• Coordinate with various vendors to execute repairs of rebuildable items and maintain associated inventory.
• Coordinate with maintenance, production, and engineering for any major changes to equipment.
• Partner with applicable team members to ensure new equipment is on-boarded successfully from a maintenance perspective.
• Coordinate with maintenance, engineering, and inventory team to ensure crib stock is updated and key parts are stocked appropriately.
• Utilize various computer programs to organize, monitor and communicate department objectives and activities.
• Support continuous improvement efficiencies in maintenance key processes.

• 3 years' experience with operating and/or maintaining factory equipment required
• Knowledge of parts and Industrial Maintenance, Skilled Trades Certification or related training and experience preferred.
• Ability to work well with team members from multiple departments
• Strong track record for driving continuous improvement utilizing effective problem-solving methods
• Proficient in standard computer software such as Word, Excel, and Microsoft Outlook.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to quickly grasp and implement new ideas, concepts, and programs to improve maintenance department
• Oracle EAM or similar ERP system experience preferred