Maintenance Planner

Position:Maintenance Planner

Location: Mercedes Benz -Van Body Shop

Job Type: Full Time Office 50% Shop floor 50%

Reports to: Manager

Department: Maintenance

• Position Purpose: Ideally the Maintenance Planner is assigned 100% to the planning function. The Maintenance Planner is not utilized for Maintenance Supervision, Scheduling or additional duties that are not associated with this position description. Other possible exclusions from Maintenance Planner responsibilities are:
• Involvement in daily emergency and urgent work requests. There is no opportunity to plan such work. If any planning is to be accomplished, the Planner must focus on next week and beyond.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Detailed Job planning
• Researching
• Understands Scope of work
• Estimating of material and labor (internal and external) job requirements
• Developing task instruction sheets for maintenance work.
• Identifying tool and equipment requirements.
• Developing job material lists
• 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.
• Coordinating with operations, purchasing, materials management, maintenance personnel and maintenance

Additional Planning Responsibilities:

• Planning and scheduling for shutdowns (major and minor) with management team.
• Gantt charts
• Critical Path Analysis
• Resource leveling.

• 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.

• Keeps the Maintenance Manager informed of abnormal or critical situations and seeks advice on matter,

outside the Planner's knowledge or authority.

• Identifies recommendations and or areas for improvements.
• Maintains essential records and files from which management reports are prepared and distributed.
• Enters purchase requisitions for all planned services.
• Enters CMMS system reservations for all planned material requirements.
• Responsible for the maintenance of the Bills of Material (Parts lists)
• Participation in budgetary preparation, tracking, and analysis.
• Assists the Maintenance Manager and Production Manager
• Periodic analysis of cost trends with recommendations for continual improvement. information is accurate.
• Reviews all work order feedback and updates PMs and Standard Work Orders accordingly.

• Daily assignment of individual technicians to specific jobs. This is a Maintenance Supervisor responsibility.

RELATIONSHIPS

• The Maintenance Planner is an integral part of the Leadership Team. They are an organizational peer and partner of the Maintenance Supervisors, Reliability Coordinators and Production Supervisors. They are jointly responsible for the tasks required to ensure the effective capacity utilization, reliability, and life cycle asset management.
• Demonstrates the values and business principles of Leadec.
• Always works safely.
• All other duties as assigned by Leadec manager.

Competencies:

• Customer Service Orientation - Satisfying customers.
• Adaptability - Willingness to deal with unexpected challenges or circumstances.
• Problem Solving - Defining problems and bring about viable solutions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Communication Skills - Ability to communicate with all levels of Leadec and customer employees.
• Language Ability -- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Strong Leadership

Position Qualifications:

• A minimum of 2 years of progressive responsibilities in Office Administration preferably in a manufacturing environment. Strong maintenance background.
• Computer Skills (Microsoft Office Word and Excel) are required.
• 3-5 years' experience with maintenance operations and planning.
• Planning shutdown contractors to complete project work or emergency repairs.

Physical Requirements:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an

employee to successfully perform the key actions of the job.

• Required to talk and/or hear in an setting (noise level is high). Frequently required to stand,

walk on concrete surfaces from 4 -12 hours. Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; lift; stoop, or crouch.

• Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and focus adjustment
• Work is performed in an with time spent working on a computer or at a desk.