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At Ashers Chocolates, we are seeking a skilled Maintenance Planner to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for improving workforce productivity and work quality by eliminating potential delays and obstacles through proper planning and coordination of labor, parts, and materials.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in coordinating and evaluating the scheduling of Ashers Chocolates' preventive maintenance program.
• Create, review, plan, and schedule all PM activities.
• Check orders to ensure priority is realistic and provide practical lead time, cost, and other coding for accuracy.
• Develop an integrated maintenance work schedule for the Maintenance Staff and Team Leader.
• Work primarily through e-maintenance CMMS system.
• Procure parts, help with inventory parts control, and issue necessary parts to ensure parts are checked out properly.
• Utilize the ROSS system for creating and closing work orders based on production demands.
• Use ROSS system to identify and issue materials necessary for each work order created.
• Track materials issued for each work order by lot numbers, and ensure that the lot numbers assigned are within quality specifications, and that the issued lots are being used in products.
• Review previous day's work packages to check for follow-up work and to ensure work orders are correctly closed out.
• Meet production deadlines, maintain cost control goals.
• Maintain a positive attitude and disposition when interacting with Ashers team members.
• Perform other job-related duties in area of responsibility as assigned.

Requirements:

• Work Environment/Physical Demands:
• Employee will perform job duties in a manufacturing environment and must be comfortable with daily exposure to noise, dust, and variation in temperature ranging from 60-100 degrees.
• Consistently lift, stack, push or pull boxes weighing up to 35 lbs.
• Frequently required to bend, stoop, twist, and turn over an 8-hour shift.

Accountabilities:

• Responsible to Maintenance Manager.
• Must be able to work and interact with all departments in all levels.
• Develops a proactive approach to creating a continuous improvement environment.
• Develops and modifies, with the aid of the maintenance staff, job plans for each PM.
• Examines unplanned work orders and determines the best way to accomplish the work.

Education:

• High School Diploma/GED.
• Bachelor's degree with 3-5 years' experience in a high-volume maintenance and/or manufacturing environment.

Experience:

• Mechanical/electrical background is necessary.
• Prior maintenance of food processing equipment preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong math skills, computer skills, and presentation skills.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work based on changing and challenging deadlines. Strong leadership and interpersonal (customer service) skills.
• Strong knowledge of CMMS systems and related systems/software.
• Good working knowledge of facilities equipment and O&M requirements.