Maintenance Planner

PrideStaff is seeking a skilled Maintenance Planner to join our team in Visalia, CA. As a key member of our maintenance team, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining a preventive maintenance system for plant equipment, coordinating communications and efforts with vendors, and ensuring that plant equipment performs to meet production demands.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creates and maintains a preventive maintenance system for plant equipment
• Coordinates communications and efforts with vendors to execute repairs, PM's, and upgrades to equipment and tooling
• Coordinates with plant supervisors to ensure plant equipment performs to meet production demands
• Plans and assigns maintenance tasks (preventative and corrective) to maintenance technicians
• Receives machine downtime data as well as monitoring and posting PM completion ratio data
• Develops a weekly schedule for PM's to critical and ancillary equipment
• Ensures that the CMMS software and data files are complete and current
• Identifies and analyzes and reviews equipment maintenance problems with the maintenance manager to update or modify PM frequency or add more tasks to existing PM's
• Creates, refines, implements, distributes, and follows up on tasks related to preventive and corrective maintenance programs including scheduling, budgeting, and driving activities
• Communicates plant equipment operational status on a continual basis to maintenance manager and maintenance supervisors
• Tracks maintenance supply inventories to ensure that proper materials are on-hand for planned maintenance activities and emergency corrective maintenance needs
• Works with parts clerk and purchasing agent to ensure that parts are readily available for PM's and corrective work orders for job completion in a timely fashion
• Implements and maintains systems to coordinate and control plant maintenance documentation such as work orders, hot work permits, work permits, daily housekeeping and rounds sheet, filter log, drawings, and owner's manuals
• Knows and complies with all safety and quality policies and procedures
• Performs and participates in team-building activities such as shift change (pass-down) meetings, safety meetings, and work schedules to ensure workloads and opportunities are distributed fairly; developing employee skills, utilizing strengths, and improving weaknesses
• Determines schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel
• Actively works and coordinates work with maintenance manager, maintenance supervisors, production supervisors, and team leads to minimize plant downtime
• Monitors tools and the condition of maintenance shops to ensure adequate working conditions
• Examines objects, systems, or facilities, and analyzes information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs for scheduled PM and contractor work
• Coordinates, plans, and tracks maintenance activities utilizing maintenance software to keep accurate records
• Supports development and implementation of capital improvements
• Must be able to work with Operators, Packers, Maintenance, and Management to achieve goals without having direct authority over any group(s)
• Must be able to apply technical knowledge, analytical, and critical thinking skills to solve problems quickly when production equipment is down
• Must be able to manage time effectively while coordinating projects and supporting production
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor or manager

Qualifications:

• 3-5 Years prior experience in Preventive Maintenance Planning preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or one to three months related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Reasoning ability—Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems.
• Language skills—Ability to read and comprehend English language, simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence in English. Ability to effectively present information.
• Mathematics—Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of weights and measurement and volume.