Maintenance Planner

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

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We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

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Position Description :

The key role of the maintenance planner is to own the maintenance plan for their area of responsibility.

The planner works across short-, medium- & long-term planning horizons to develop & deliver the maintenance plan, aligning resource & timing requirements with Engineering and Production partners make sure maintenance tasks are planned according to department objectives & executable on time in full.

The maintenance planner pulls together the plan of work for all tasks in partnership with engineering colleagues.

The planner will detail out the task list needed in sequential order, appropriate maintenance procedures, known required parts and specialist tools and resources, craft requirements with time estimates, retest requirements, specifications, safety, Quality and environmental requirements needed to perform the work.



* Short, medium & long term maintenance planning


* Build and publish weekly schedule (in liaison with operations) & maintain changes to plan on a daily basis


* Develop cost estimates for planned & corrective work as appropriate


* Maintain long term maintenance plan identifying outage requirements and collaborate with Engineering and Production stakeholders to ensure PM due dates are achieved


* Collaborate with the Maintenance Manager in preparing turnaround plans for large outages


* Ensure all aspects of maintenance planning are considered and preparations in place to deliver successful execution of tasks (access, spare parts, external resources, service contracts.

etc)


* Check availability of parts, tools, etc for maintenance work


* Work with Engineering Supervisors to ensure sufficient staffing is available for maintenance activities


* Ensure risk assessments and method statements are in place as appropriate for planned and unplanned work before locking tasks into plans.

Escalate non-conformance as appropriate


* Organize service visits for equipment as required in collaboration with Maintenance Support Engineers


* Walk down area during job plan creation >1 week horizon


* Follow up on purchased engineering ...