Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner

Position Summary:

The Maintenance Planner-Scheduler reports to the Maintenance Manager.

The role of the Maintenance Planner is to improve work force productivity and work quality of the Maintenance Team by anticipating and eliminating potential equipment delays through planning and coordination of labor, parts and material, and equipment access.

Supports Land O'Lakes values and integrity in all plant activities.

Promotes an environment for open and timely communication and actively enlists input from others and responds to others respectfully.

Essential Functions:

Planning and Scheduling:


* Be able to communicate with contractors, walk contractor jobs, and schedule work that aligns with the production schedule


* Kitting of parts for planned work orders as required.


* Schedule all planned preventative maintenance and maintain records in CMMS system.


* Plan all routine work for the mechanics.

Add comments and review parts to be able to accomplish the work.


* Organize and facilitate weekend planning meetings.


* Ensure PMs and WOs are executed safely and with appropriate quality.


* Coordinate and assist in scheduling technicians and contractors on down day projects


* Partner with the Production Planner to ensure maintenance activities are scheduled.


* Review and update PM tasks as needed to ensure they are thorough and accurate.


* Prepare work schedules and mechanic duty assignments as required to support the maintenance program and the requirements of production.


* Evaluate, prioritize, and schedule maintenance repair requests to ensure timely completion of repair actions.


* Follow up with mechanics on work assigned to understand any areas of improvement

Inventory Management:


* Track and communicate inventory shortage situations to Maintenance Manager.


* Maintain inventory and all purchasing/receiving for all maintenance required repair supplies, parts, tools, etc.


* Set up the minimum and maximum trigger points, based off historical usage data for expendable maintenance parts


* Assist Maintenance Manager and technicians with inventory and purchasing


* Identify and cost out critical control parts


* Provide the Maintenance Manager with a written list of material and replacement parts as needed.

Purchasing/Receiving:


* Responsible for organization of the parts room and the bar coding of all items in the parts room.


* Lead cycle counts of items and enter data into inventory system.


* Manage inventory free-stock items, ie.

Nuts/Bolts, Conduit, sheet metal, angle iron, etc.


* Develop preventive, predictive and periodic maintenance programs and continuously improve processes.


* Receive, unpack, sort, arrange and place inventoried items in proper location.

Ensure items are tagged with proper identification and stocked.


* Coordinate with the engineering group for purchase orders on our capital projects


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