Maintenance Planner

Kaiser Aluminum is known around the world for its superior quality. Our secret is what we put into it—innovative thinking, industry-leading reliability, and a world-class commitment to customer service. In short, the same qualities we look for in our people. We are looking for a Maintenance Planner to be responsible for assisting with the development of reliability-based maintenance strategy, based on preventive and predictive maintenance.

The Maintenance Planner will work directly with the Maintenance Manager and Operations Coordinator to build a reliable CMMS system and maintenance team. The Maintenance Planner will work independently and with other plant personnel to optimize preventative, predictive and routine maintenance tasks at the Kaiser Aluminum extrusion and tubular plant in Bellwood Virginia.

What you will work on:

• Equipment and repair parts data entry and management.
• Predictive and preventive maintenance scheduling.
• Typical tasks: utilizing existing software (Maximo), converts manually kept data to the CMMS for data collection.
• Develops PM programs for equipment in a form for the CMMS computerized system.
• Maintains PM program data on CMMS system computer.
• Maintains equipment information and repair files.
• Planning and coordinating maintenance jobs and projects.
• Participates in plant safety, health and environmental programs.
• Prepare detailed planning package documentation and assemble issue for review packages.
• Interpersonal management skills are required to effectively deal with hourly mechanics and electricians as well as with plant management.
• Managing maintenance data collection and information gathering to more effectively provide the planned maintenance service in future.
• Writing purchase requisition for materials and recourses need on planned jobs and projects.
• Adding assets to stores needed to decrease equipment down time and support PM’s.
• Documenting department flow processes and following.
• All aspects of vendor relationship (contracts, documentation, policies).
• Tracks KPI’s.

What you will bring to the role:

• Associate's degree in a relevant technical field is preferred. Bachelor’s degree in engineering a plus.
• Five (5) years in maintenance and /or production operations and /or have at least 1 year experience as a maintenance planner or coordinator.
• Ability to build and use maintenance library for repairs.
• Ability to read and interpret documents and drawings, such as safety rules, schematics, blueprints, sketches and diagrams, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write detailed repair reports as well as good verbal communication.
• Ability to work cooperatively with others, confer with co-workers, vendors and contractors who supply materials, equipment and/or services for Maintenance.
• Maintain a high level of self-management and motivation.
• Experience in the operation of an Aluminum Extrusion plant is an asset.
• Ability to fill for Maintenance Supervisors in his/her absence. The Planner may be required to fill in for the Maintenance Manager in his/her absence.

Computer Skills:

• Expertise and proficiency with basic office computer software, and the ability to learn how to effectively use maintenance software to input data and research parts.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Project, Excel, and basic understanding of computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) is required.
• Experience with Maximo a plus.

No third-party candidate submissions are being accepted at this time for this opening.

About Kaiser Aluminum: Talented people join our team because we are a company passionate about environmental sustainability, employee growth, contributing back to our communities and championing a diverse and inclusive culture. We are strongly committed to expanding inclusion, equity, and diversity -- how we hire, develop, and inspire our diverse team members that reflects and relates to the increasingly multicultural community.