Maintenance Planner

Job Description
The Maintenance Planner will use their comprehensive understanding of systems reliability, maintenance, and associated workflow processes to execute the site's asset care strategy, driving system reliability, and uptime, in the automated distribution environment. A solid understanding of maintenance reliability methodologies such as Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Predictive Maintenance (PDM), Condition Based Maintenance, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is critical to success. Proactively tracks department and site metrics and KPIs to understand opportunities to drive reliability. Responsible for the overall maintenance workload and will coordinate all proactive maintenance and reliability efforts. Partners with the site's Maintenance leadership team, Technicians, and operational leadership to plan and coordinate work. Leads to continuous improvement efforts, driving equipment uptime and process efficiency among others. Responsible for preparing technical documents, and reports and making recommendations to leadership.
Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring equipment reliability (uptime) through coordination and alignment of resources, processes, and schedules.
• Responsible for coordinating and prioritizing all preventative and planned maintenance activities across complete maintenance operations.
• Owner of the workload planning and scheduling process. Assigns preventative and planned workload to all technicians.
• Reviews all planned work requests for viability and priority.
• Works closely with maintenance and operational leadership to coordinate and communicate maintenance schedules.
• Responsible for monitoring, interpreting, and using maintenance metrics and KPIs to adjust maintenance plans driving equipment reliability.
• Champions maintenance projects and equipment overhauls.
• Reviews all completed work to understand the state of equipment and reconciles against planned work needs.
• Audits completed work, provides feedback to technicians and management.
• Audits work processes and recommends processes improvement to maintenance leadership. Drive continuous improvement efforts with tangible, trackable results.
• Participates in vendor management activities including but not limited to:
  
  • Schedule and organize vendor meetings and develop bid documents for pricing.
  • Reviews and reports discrepancies in vendor orders, pricing, deliveries, and warranties.
  • Tracks and closes all vendor work orders and compiles into CMMS system.
• Exercises independent judgment, discretion, and confidentiality in performing daily work tasks.
• Owns stockroom organization and spare parts inventory levels.
• Supports safety program and all required documentation.

Language skills:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common information, reports and other documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or company representatives. Ability to effectively present information to peers and management.
Physical demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, stand for long periods of time, must be able to lift up to 50 pounds and may be required to push or pull with a dolly or pallet jack up to 500 lbs.
Work environment:
Technicians will be exposed to various unfamiliar conditions where Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn and which may include but not limited to air respirator, safety glasses and ear plugs. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, but increases significantly in warehouse and manufacturing areas.
Qualifications:

• High School diploma and at least 4 years of experience in automated distribution, fulfillment, manufacturing maintenance, or related environment.
• At least 4 years of experience working with a CMMS system and proficient in maintenance workflow processes.
• At least 2 years of experience using data, metrics, and reporting to solve problems.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Must be willing to perform other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must be willing to work alternative shifts as needed.
• Must perform root cause analysis (RCA) on all critical system outages/failures and present findings to the maintenance leadership team.
• Must have a strong working knowledge of Predictive Maintenance (PDM) tools and associated methodology to drive reliability and an increase in the asset lifecycle.
• Must have a strong working knowledge of inputs to maintain reliability.
• Must be a subject matter expert in all material handling systems.
• Must have high proficiency working in CMMS systems to schedule work, execute reporting functions, and gather data for analytics.

Shasta Beverages, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender, genetics, gender identity, disabled veterans or sexual orientation.
Company Profile
About Shasta
Since its founding in 1889, Shasta Beverages, Inc. has been a beverage industry pioneer and family-trusted staple in America, with over 30 unique, innovative and distinctive soft drink flavors. Shasta has a flavor for everyone -- ranging from the new California Dreamin' and Fiesta Punch to such familiar favorites as Crème Soda and Root Beer. For more information, please visit www.shastapop.com or Shasta Soda on Facebook and Twitter.
Shasta is part of the National Beverage Corp. family of iconic brands.