Maintenance Planner

MSI Express is hiring an experienced Maintenance Planner for their Batavia, IL facility! In this critical role as the Maintenance Planner, your goal is to improve workforce productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labor, parts and materials, and equipment access. You will also facilitate Opportunity-based work by having materials kitted and tasks available for short or no-notice shutdowns of individual equipment or rooms.
As the Maintenance Planner you will:

• Plan maintenance activities that support Production and associated areas.
• Conduct regular analysis of backlog relative to available resources.
• Ensure that all internal beneficiaries of Maintenance receive timely, efficient, and quality service
• Help Operations balance their need for daily output with their need for equipment reliability through proactive maintenance.
• Have familiarity with the CMMS system and how it works within the plant.
• Use software needed for creating Visual Work Instructions, job plans, estimating jobs, and maintaining the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Create and maintain Preventative Maintenance (PM) tasks list for each asset to ensure optimal machine uptime and performance
• Maintain materials and equipment in a neat and orderly fashion.
• Create recommended critical spare parts lists and stocking quantities for Maintenance Parts
• Work with the plant operations team, production schedulers, and maintenance supervisors to schedule all maintenance work for the department based on established priorities and craftsperson availability.
• Effectively lead daily and weekly PM scheduling meetings.
• Work with vendors and contractors, in the performance of assigned duties.
• Coordinate all outside services such as forklift repair, AC repair, etc.
• Verify work order inventory, collect parts needed for work order completion, and pre-stage parts for work orders (job packages) in the staging area.

To be successful in the role you must possess:

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Undergraduate degree desired
• OSHA Powered Industrial equipment training and pass associated tests, if required

• 1 year of experience in a complex manufacturing environment
• 1 year of experience in purchasing or similar duties
• 1 year of experience in interacting with customers / Customer service
• Forklift certificate or satisfactory completion of a forklift-training program within the first 30 days of employment, if required

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Influential leadership, decision-making, and the ability to efficiently manage people and production needs
• Business-minded, people and results-oriented, with a strong emphasis on safety and quality.
• Self-starter, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to handle multiple priorities effectively
• Working knowledge of computer software tools including word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations
• Maintenance background with exposure to a wide variety of maintenance areas
• Capable of working with vendors and holding them accountable for high levels of service
• Willing to work various hours and days as necessary to support the plant
• Ability to read and interpret equipment and plant prints, and mechanical and electrical drawings

MSI Express is your single-source manufacturing and packaging solution and your partner for any job size or type. Our breadth of capabilities in all CPG categories, ability to quickly add capacity, and manufacturing efficiencies allow us to match up to any packaging need and deliver the right solution.
Our teams have decades of experience and breadth of knowledge across all food packaging types. Our ability to design, build, and tool equipment in-house, combined with our excellent supply chain of vendors, compresses the commercialization timeline to deliver you a true competitive advantage — a quicker turn-around from concept to consumer.
If you are ready to work for an innovative company that provides numerous growth opportunities, please apply today!
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