Maintenance Planner Job Description
Maintenance Planner Duties & Responsibilities
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Maintenance Planner Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Maintenance Planner
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Education for Maintenance Planner
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Employers hiring for the maintenance planner job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Technical, Engineering, General Education, Associates, Education, Business, Industrial, Manufacturing, Management, Electrical Engineering
Skills for Maintenance Planner
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Maintenance Planner Examples
Maintenance Planner Job Description
- PM and Standard Job Plan Development
- MRO Supply Chain Coordination
- Creation of purchase requisitions for planned work
- Creation of stock reservations for planned work
- Assist Storeroom function in the kitting and staging of job material requirements
- Gantt charts and critical path analysis it it’s need it
- Development of Planner reference systems including a file of Planned Job Packages for recurring jobs, plus labor and material libraries for each piece of equipment
- Identifies recommendations and or areas for improvements
- Ensure the established schedule is communicated to all plant stakeholders
- Serving as the owner of the plant work order system and scheduling process for PM, active work orders capital and improvement projects work orders
- Must be at least a grade 8 mechanic (for internal candidates) or possess equivalent experience (for external candidates)
- Estimate time for work orders
- Monitor, update, and maintain all spare parts between the Maintenance Department and the Stock Room
- To timely, communicate with the customers on requested work and equipment availability and coordinate with the appropriate shift required work that is to be performed and period available to complete work
- Assist with maintenance departmental system documentation, updating prints, and (paper/electronic) files
- Previous experience in maintenance planning preferred
Maintenance Planner Job Description
- Provides input as part of risk assessment team in his/her area concerning new work notifications
- Purchase necessary parts, equipment, and services to perform work
- Follow up to verify work was performed correctly
- Obtain bids from contractors and negotiate best price
- Assist in off shift work as needed
- Collaborate with skilled trades and other leaders to solve problems
- Assist in PM and standardized work writing as needed
- Discuss plans/scheduling with support technicians
- Plan around production to access equipment
- Fully plan work orders, including internal operations, material purchases/requisitions, service purchases, labor purchases
- Ability to supervise maintenance department as part of a rotating supervisor duty schedule for weekends
- Willing to spend time out on the production floor to work with mechanics and see issues/requests out i the field
- Assist with the updating and planning of work from plant action items
- Individual must be able to work productively within a team environment
- Maintenance and Plant Start-up Planning experience with a minimum of 10 years of experience in Chemical/Refining industry
- Must be computer proficient, and have excellent writing and teamwork skills
Maintenance Planner Job Description
- Collect parts needed to complete Work Orders and communicate when all material is available
- Backup to the Store Room Attendant
- Keep files of daily production reports
- Ensure compliance of proper safety, quality and environmental requirements in work
- Take responsibility for the CMMS Data Base and data integrity
- Lead and prepare for equipment shutdowns
- Communicates with assembly
- Reviews with engineering those work orders requiring engineering design
- Examines jobs to be done and determines best way to accomplish the work
- Obtains blueprints, drawings, instructional manuals and special procedures, as needed, from files or other sources
- Knowledge of Maintenance processes and activities
- Fill in for maintenance shift supervisors when needed (out for vacation/training)
- 2 years’ experience in industrial maintenance or implementing and sustaining a preventative maintenance program
- Prior CMMS experience required
- Estimates jobs showing sequence of steps, the number of mechanics and required man-hours for each step
- Maintains backlog files of work orders awaiting scheduling in accordance with their priority limits with an estimated completion date
Maintenance Planner Job Description
- Assist mechanics in projects when needed
- Responsibility for the effective management of the continuing airworthiness aspects of fleet defects
- Provision of added oversight for coordinated forward planning of both scheduled and unscheduled tasks
- Updating of IFS forecasted airframes hours per month
- Undertaking weekly serviceability / reliability for all of Bristow APR’s fleet
- Responsible for all aspects of Job Plan Development for both planned and scoped work
- Walk down jobs, including elevated and confined space areas of the plant, to insure all safety and work process considerations are factored into the job
- Transition capital improvement projects from project stage to operations
- Purchase MRO by select suppliers and review inventory for accuracy
- Focus on long range planning activities – removed from day to day crisis management
- Understanding of the proper use of work orders, priorities, scheduling
- Previous experience with a CMS system is required
- Engineering degree or technical school training preferred
- Minimum one year experience developing and maintaining preventative maintenance schedules required
- Possess basic understanding of various production equipment operations/parts
- Self-starter, and able to multi-task effectively
Maintenance Planner Job Description
- Knowledge of SAP CMMS system
- SAP MPA module skills
- Provide ongoing transparency of spare parts inventory levels and ensure continuous inventory accuracy
- Oversee the PDM work orders
- Assist in managing the scheduling of skilled trade labor
- Monitor equipment problems
- Logs and documents production problems
- Effective communications technique both verbally and in writing with superiors, colleagues, and vendors outside the Company
- Know, understand and comply with all SHE guidelines
- Examine jobs to be done and build detailed job plans to accomplish the work with focus on safety measures
- Minimum 5 years experience in maintenance planning in steel or heavy manufacturing
- Can work in a self-directed environment and direct others
- Utilizes project management skills to accomplish larger tasks
- Able to perform all other functions of Maintenance Planning
- Must have knowledge of aircraft systems and ATA codes
- 3-5 years aircraft maintenance planning experience