Maintenance Planner

POSITION OVERVIEW 

The Planner role develops maintenance job plans and prepares them for scheduling and work execution. This includes regular maintenance jobs, preventive and predictive jobs, and shutdown jobs. 

TARGETED OUTCOMES 

• Demonstrate knowledge of safe work practices to include Ascend Safety policies and procedures, OSHA and environmental requirements. 

• Demonstrate knowledge of the workflow process and an understanding of the planner role within the workflow. 

• Understand the processes of the plant to help improve and to find shortcomings 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES  

Planner Duties  

• Plan all maintenance work (corrective, preventive and predictive) for the operating site within the planner’s area of cognizance. 

• Plan all maintenance with special attention paid to all regulatory requirements that may apply.  This includes, but is not limited to, OSHA rules, EPA regulations, and state and local environmental regulations. 

• Insure all safety requirements are observed in the performance of maintenance in the planner’s area of cognizance. 

• Provide effective job plans to insure work completion in an efficient and effective manner. 

• Provide materials and labor estimates required to complete work orders. 

• Identify specialty tooling required to complete the job and insure availability. 

• Identify the need for outside Contractors and secure proposal to complete the scope of work. 

• Check submitted work orders for completeness and accuracy communicating with Operations Coordinator as needed. 

• Review work order scope and insure MOC process is followed with approvals prior to planning. 

• Review all completed work orders for completeness and accuracy, updating machinery history data in the CMMS system as required. 

• Train maintenance personnel in proper maintenance procedures and proper reporting procedures for out-of-specification findings, and in the use of CMMS software as a maintenance management tool. 

• Through the use of regular reports, keep the Planning and Maintenance Supervisors informed of work progress and future work schedules. 

•  Assist the Maintenance Supervisors in the “qualification” and monitoring of the performance of all contractors working in the planner’s area of cognizance. 

• Update the CMMS system for all equipment within the planner’s area of cognizance.  This includes machinery data, machinery history, and spare parts lists. 

• Using the CMMS system, forecast work force needs for equipment maintenance in the planner’s area of cognizance. 

• Enter and complete all completed work orders in CMMS system. 

• Transition capital improvement projects from engineering department to the operations and production departments.  Included is the updating of information in the CMMS database to reflect the improvement, addition, or deletion of equipment and their associated spare parts and maintenance procedures. 

• Develop and insure the accuracy of BOM (Bill of Materials) making edits and additions as needed. 

• Maintain the PM system for area of responsibility, editing jobs, estimated hours, frequency, adding new PM’s as needed. 

• Assist Material Coordinator with part discrepancies, description cleanup, etc. 

• Identify part discrepancies, additional work needed, work task edits, reoccurring problems in area of responsibility through review of complete work orders in order to build standard job packages 

TEAM 

• Reports to:  Planning/Scheduling Supervisor