Maintenance Planner - Kalamazoo, United States - Pactiv Evergreen - North America

Pactiv Evergreen - North America

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Kalamazoo, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Overview:

140 miles west of Detroit and 50 miles south of Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo is a city in southern Michigan. The Kalamazoo Valley Museum offers science, technology and history exhibits, plus a planetarium. American and European art form the core collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. To the south, the Air Zoo museum features vintage aircraft, flight simulators and rides. The multi-use Kalamazoo River Valley Trail runs through the city, linking parks and nearby communities.

The Evergreen Packaging Kalamazoo Carton Converting Facility is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with easy access to the beautif Great Lakes region and the cities of Chicago and Detroit.

Opened in 1952 and employing 175 team members, the facility prints and die cuts refrigerated gable top cartons for a variety of national and regional brands, primarily supplying important dairy nutrition to schoolchildren throughout the US.

All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines and applicable laws.

Responsibilities:

Purpose of the Job

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for assisting with the development of reliability-based maintenance strategy, based on preventative and predictive maintenance.

This individual will work directly with the Maintenance Team Leader to build a reliable and effective Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and maintenance team.

The Planner will work independently and with other plant personnel to perform preventative, predictive, and routine maintenance tasks.

The Maintenance Planner makes a direct contribution to important plant goals of increasing labor productivity, reducing maintenance costs, and improving equipment reliability.

This is accomplished by preparing detailed job plans, coordinating key scheduling activities with other areas, and ensuring work order data integrity.

This person needs a complete understanding of the parts inventory function, inventory management, and parts distribution. This role serves as the central point of contact for all maintenance reliability systems.

This position is expected to lead and participate in plant-level continuous improvement, lean, root cause analysis, and six sigma projects when applicable.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

Support the initial design and implementation of the SAP Plant Maintenance, CMMS module.
Demonstrate Enterprise asset management (EAM) proficiency utilizing the Materials Management and

Maintenance modules of the CMMS.

Generate and analyze key performance indicator reports (ie, due-in, past-due, mean time between failures etc.).
Convert work requests to work orders in CMMS/EAM system.
Update equipment history and other pertinent information.
Continuously improve the preventative and predictive maintenance activities by utilizing key performance indicators as well as work order and customer feedback.
Approving and prioritizing new work order requests. Analyze work order feedback.
Ensure accuracy of the information on the new work requests before the request is converted to a work

order.

Use historical data to estimate labor hours needed to perform the work.
Drive high service level in support of planned and scheduled maintenance work.
Plan jobs and create required job information packages for scheduled work.
Prepare and communicate job planning packages for scheduled jobs to all involved and affected.
Determine actual sequence of work (ie, prep work, lock-out, burn and confined space permits required,

job steps and necessary follow-up).

Facilitate the weekly scheduling meeting to jointly review/approve the weekly schedule with the Department Managers, Maintenance Manager and Production Planner.
Audit job sites to evaluate effectiveness and efficiency.
Coordinate and follow-up delivery of special equipment needed from vendors.
Exchange common planning information with Planners from other facilities.
Provide support by contacting vendors concerning cost and availability of parts.
Arrange support personnel, contractors and equipment as needed for the next week's scheduled jobs.
Provide information to update drawings, parts lists and job steps when necessary.
Establish and maintain an effective Master Maintenance Schedule for preventative and predictive

maintenance activities (PPM).

Input/update asset information in CMMS/EAM system (ie, vendor information, price, equipment hierarchy, PO#, store room location and any other information that may not have already been captured).
Allocate/reserve stock parts for scheduled jobs in CMMS/EAM system.
Communicate specific requirements to "reserve," "stage" and "deliver" materials to coincide with

scheduled maintenance work

Qualifications:

Qualifications:
Education, Skills and/or Experience Required