Maintenance Planner

About the role

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Salary range: $79,200-103,950*

*The salary range listed is a guide for this position and may vary depending on experience, education, geographic location, and other qualifications. The final offer will be determined based on the candidate's individual merits and the company's compensation policies.

The Maintenance Planner of Primary Operations owns and streamlines all maintenance planning activities within their manufacturing area. The Planner is responsible for organizing preventive, predictive, corrective, and project maintenance work orders in coordination with the Maintenance team, Engineering, Operations, Stores, and Procurement.

The Planner defines, creates, updates, and/or modifies work procedures and maintains documentation for administrative and quality purposes.

She/he places special emphasis on maintaining the on-time delivery of a preventive/predictive maintenance plan that will ensure optimum operation of the company's assets both in the short and long term, thereby impacting the decrease in unplanned equipment downtime and lowering the total cost of ownership for their area's assets.

You will have the opportunity to

• Plan Preventive / Predictive Work: Creates the appropriate work details (instructions, safety precautions, and PPE, spare parts needed, tools needed, number and type of craft resources, duration and sequence of work tasks, whether the equipment is energized or de-energized, drawings and manuals, etc.) for repetitive preventive and predictive work to the standard work templates. Develop and maintain PM/PdM/overhaul/replacement strategy for every asset that complies with operations schedule strategy.
• Plan Corrective Maintenance Work: Similar to planning preventive/predictive work, add the appropriate work details to turn ad hoc and PM follow-up work notifications into fully planned work orders, taking care to standardize these tasks whenever possible. Ideal turnaround: 3-5 business days. Physically stage parts and tools for specific jobs and/or return what is not used to its proper storage location.
• Lead Planning Prioritization - this includes regular area maintenance & operations meetings (typically weekly or bi-weekly) and pre-outage planning prioritization meetings.
• Lead the annual PM quality review with support from the maintenance team. Lead hands-on CMMS training and elevate safety issues and engage in team problem-solving to resolve them.
• Liaise across departments and influence to ensure proper work plans and data capture within the CMMS. To include but not limited to: Engineering for planning special/capital projects, Storeroom and Procurement to ensure timely part and tool availability, IT for proper data capture and correcting any system bugs, and occasionally external suppliers as required.
• Analyze, Monitor Area Planning Metrics, and make maintenance plans and data updates. %PM and %PdM effectiveness, PM completion, MTBF (mean time between failure), etc. indicate impending failures, training needs, and/or potential PM updates are necessary. Elevate to management and execute follow-up/corrective actions.
• Maintain (Update, Review, Add, and Remove as necessary) data for all equipment within planner's responsible area related to PM/PdM and standard work, BOM (Bill of Materials), associated drawings, associated manuals, and standard PM/PdM tooling requirements. The planner is fully accountable for the accuracy of this data.
• Collaborate in Maintenance Department Team Activities - Serve as backup Scheduler or Supervisor as required by area needs. Actively engage in pre-outage scheduling meetings to ensure proper identification of critical path jobs and required work sequencing. Assist Reliability Engineer in data collection and brainstorming related to Failure Root Cause Analysis.

Requirements

• High School Diploma
• Associates degree in a technical or manufacturing-oriented field. Undergraduate degree in engineering or technical field preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years as an A-rate mechanical or electrical technician or 2 years as a maintenance supervisor required.
• Experience in an industrial manufacturing or military environment required
• Minimum of 5 years as a technician or 3 years as a supervisor preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years work experience required
• Technical Equipment Maintenance Problem-Solving, Attention to Detail, Job Visualization, Proactive Mindset, Sequential Thinking required
• Organization Skills, verbal and written communication skills, and Computer Literacy (MS Office products and CMMS - computerized maintenance management software) required

Additional information

The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction.

Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on Materion's determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with Materion's business requirements.

The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company's policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.

Materion's Veteran Employee Resource group supports veterans and promotes the benefits of hiring veterans in the workplace. We honor all those who have served and are a military friendly company. Veterans are encouraged to apply and military experience and skills are transferrable to Materion careers.

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