Maintenance Planner

The Maintenance Planner plays a crucial role in ensuring the optimal performance and efficiency of plant equipment at Bradford White. This position requires a strong partnership with the Maintenance and Engineering team to develop and implement tactical and strategic maintenance and reliability strategies.

• Collaborate with Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, Technicians, and Operations to ensure effective communication on plant equipment issues and 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, ensuring 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.