What to Expect
The Equipment Maintenance Planner will support the Mobile Equipment Maintenance and Engineering teams.
The role of the Maintenance Planner is to improve work force productivity, on-time completion of departmental projects, and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labor, parts, and material.
Maintenance Planners will deploy inventory strategies, be responsible for product change and associated parts planning implications, manage and solve exceptions, and drive supplier execution.
This role involves daily management of supply and constraints, status reporting and escalation, vendor engagement and the relentless pursuit of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
This individual will act as a key liaison between Production Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to ensure value added, critical sustaining work is done with a high degree of efficacy and professionalism.
What You’ll Do
Perform take-off analysis of engineering drawings to nest materials and minimize waste
Utilize internal procurement process, create purchase orders and manage estimated arrival times
Responsible for the inbound material schedule and reconciliation of delivered goods
Build and maintain operational partnerships with assigned suppliers
Manage quality standards and negotiated lead-times to ensure continuous supply
Support onboarding and qualifying new suppliers to ensure operational excellence and compliance with established supply chain processes and policies
Support spare parts management; and assist with procuring, searching, itemizing, and controlling critical spare parts lists, inventorying, and engaging with internal Spares and Engineering teams to ensure maintenance teams have up-to-date spares inventories; and track consumption trends for areas of concern
Communicate job plans to the Supervisors, Engineers, and maintenance team prior to start of project, shutdown, or extended downtime
Manage Work Order backlogs, track work order aging, and communicate planned and ready backlogs to owning Supervisors and Techs
Run reports weekly as needed by management to understand status of aging items
What You’ll Bring
Preferred 3 years’ experience in manufacturing, fabrication, finance, supply chain management or related field
BA/BS in related field preferred
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to evaluate and analyze data to enable operational decision-making or present clear recommendations to leadership
Working knowledge of fabrication techniques and reading blueprints or engineering drawings
Ability to meet deadlines and be accountable for quality / quantity
Able to manage multiple tasks with competing priorities, establish and achieve goals
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Good computer skills, experience with Microsoft Office a must
Must have command of the English language, both written and verbal
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