Reliability Planning Analyst - Richmond, United States - Amentum

Description

Amentum is seeking a Reliability Planning Analyst to support our team of multi-skilled technicians for our operations and maintenance team in Richmond, VA. Typical work schedule is Monday-Friday, 7:30am – 4:00pm; various hours may be required based on business demand.

The Reliability Planning Analyst is responsible for the effective execution of all maintenance work controls processes. The primary role is to improve work force productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination (scheduling) of labor, parts and material, tools, and equipment, required permits, specialized documentation and equipment access.

This position is empowered to manage work priority, develop job plans, define parts and materials, define crafts and skills, and engage the proper resources to develop a safe, effective, and efficient work control plan.

The Reliability Planning Analyst coordinates with our operations and maintenance management team in developing the scheduled maintenance activities and processes; pre-evaluates the need for replacement parts and places orders; and anticipates interruptions in plan and develops backup plans to minimize the impact on the facility's overall functionality or production schedule. This position may also act as liaison between Amentum staff, subcontractors, and client for the performing of maintenance work orders.

Essential Functions:

• Upholds safety, health, and environmental procedures; communicates directly; and supports the EHS policies to ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA and Company and Site-Specific rules and regulations always.
• Acts as the principal liaison between the maintenance department and operation planning.
• Maximizes resources by identifying parts, materials, special tools, external services, rentals, and documentation by establishing, maintaining, and improving the maintenance planning and scheduling flow and process tasks.
• Receives and reviews all planned work orders from the requesting departments. Reviews and screens each work order to verify proper completion with all required information.
• Examines planned work orders and determines scope and best practices to accomplish work.
• Identifies work requiring engineering and design and reviews with proper entities.
• Escalates issues to the Reliability Manager for work that requires special tools, personnel, or special approvals.
• Develops full scope and extent of work required, including cost and time required, to conduct the relevant repair, preventive, predictive, and improvement maintenance activities of the plant equipment, buildings, and grounds.
• Prepares job plans for scheduling, detailing parts, materials, special tools and external services and documentation with planned costs. Job plans to include the sequencing of associated tasks.
• Performs root cause analysis for continuous improvement.
• Initiates and implements best practices with emphasis on planning/scheduling the preventive and predictive work.
• Analyzes unplanned work orders and occurrences for incorporation into corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensures that all maintenance personnel understand the work instructions using a procedures-based maintenance strategy and best practices for all maintenance tasks.
• Ensures maintenance personnel update and close each work order when completed.
• Prepares reports, collects, and analyzes data, and makes recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance related and operation related problems.
• Works with the MRO team to initiate materials requisitions.
• Maximizes equipment reliability and availability through effective use of planned maintenance to quickly return equipment to design capacity and develops effective and applicable procedures to ensure defect free quality maintenance work.
• Develops maintenance work schedule for affected area including Preventive Maintenance (PM), Predictive Maintenance (PDM), and corrective maintenance (CM).
• Develops and adheres to prioritization of work tasks.
• Performs post job reviews to ensure actual work performed and post repair operation is satisfactory.
• Identifies and changes scope of PM or PDM (based on activity results) and CM.
• Maintains the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) while managing and tracking work orders, backlog, and spare parts and creates a machine history of plant equipment and reallocates resources as required.
• Understands the as-designed operation of all plant assets and reviews the operation of equipment and systems to identify and implement PM and PDM tasks to avoid production interruption.
• Coordinates with Site Operations Managers to schedule workforce and resources for workforce and cost optimization.
  Develops a system of planned job packages for recurring tasks.
• Updates PM job plans and frequencies within the CMMS through a PM Optimization program.
• Identifies and secures and preplaces all parts and material required to complete the work by providing storeroom personnel a Bill of Material for the work orders and kits(palletizes) for maximum efficiency.
• Coordinates with storeroom personnel to manage spare part usage.
• Creates a critical spares list and procures or identifies sources for procurement to reduce lead times.
• Manages backlog.
• Continuously improves, changes the job estimate and planning/scheduling process by utilizing feedback from maintenance team.
• Maintains accurate metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and provides information for continuous improvement.
• Provide management and direction for subcontractor work and direct interface with subcontractors in day-to-day activities. May be asked to obtain quotes from subcontractors.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of skilled crafts such as HVAC, Mechanics, Electrics, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, Plumbing, Pipe Fitting, etc.

Position Goals and Performance Metrics:

• Schedule compliance: Jobs planned vs jobs and work completed as scheduled.
• Planning compliance: Data integrity in estimation and reporting of labor, material, and costs.
• Reduction of Service Work Orders: Planned Maintenance vs. Reactive.
• Improvement in Mean Time Between Failure.
• Timely reporting.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Management.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in facility management, business administration, engineering, or related technical field with 2 years of experience; OR
• Associates degree in facility management, business administration, engineering, or related technical field PLUS 6 years of experience in Industrial Facilities or Production Maintenance related work; OR
• 10 years of experience in Industrial Facilities or Production Maintenance related work with no college education.
• Ability to obtain a security access badge at our client's location.
• Must be willing to work overtime, holidays, various shifts, weekends, and alternative work schedules.
• This position requires a valid Driver's License.
• This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization.

Preferred:

• Proficient in a CMMS, such as Maximo, SAP, or an equivalent program.
• Preventive and/or Predictive maintenance planning experience, including areas such as IR scanning, ultrasonic, vibration and oil analysis, testing, life cycle studies, incident reports, root cause analysis and/or additional data gathering programs.
• Ability to coordinate parts and assign the appropriate skilled labor to ensure successful completion.
• Ability to write processes and procedures related to facility maintenance work.
• Practical experience with continuous improvement techniques such as Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Six Sigma, 5S, Toyota Production Systems.
• Demonstrated understanding of an effective safety culture.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Demonstrated skills in organization and time management.
• Power BI experience is a plus.
• Broad understanding of business issues, key performance metrics, organizational structure, and customer value.
• Experience managing construction project improvements and renovations of laboratories and office/building systems.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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