Maintenance Planner - Bedford Park, IL

PTC is a leading manufacturer and marketer of welded and cold drawn mechanical steel tubing and tubular shapes, plated bar and tubing, and fabricated parts and precision components. · We at PTC value our employees' health and wellness. We offer the following: · FREE Healthcare · ...

Job description

PTC is a leading manufacturer and marketer of welded and cold drawn mechanical steel tubing and tubular shapes, plated bar and tubing, and fabricated parts and precision components.

We at PTC value our employees' health and wellness. We offer the following:

• FREE Healthcare
• HSA option
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Dependent & Spouse Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• Cancer & Critical accident coverage
• 401K plan with company match
• Referral Bonus
• Annual college scholarship available for children & grandchildren of PTC employees
• Tuition Reimbursement eligibility

Company Description:

PTC is a growing, fast-paced, mechanically advanced organization that provides value added solutions to world-wide users of mechanical tubing. This is not "an old steel pipe" business. PTC is a fact-based, solutions oriented company that is growing each day. PTC is a manufacturer of welded steel & alloy tubing and chrome-plated bar. PTC has eight plants in PA, OH, IN, IL and MO; and its products are used globally, in products made by its customers such as Caterpillar, John Deere, Jeep, and Honda.

Job Summary:

This position has two primary support roles. As the Maintenance Planner you will assist the Maintenance Supervisors with improving the work force productivity and quality by reducing the risks of potential delays associated with resource planning, scheduling, and coordination of maintenance resources, parts, materials, and equipment. The Maintenance Planner will also have full responsibility of the storeroom and directly manage one storeroom employee to assure accurate and timely receipt and issuance of parts, tools, and supplies needed to support production and maintenance functions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Process Non-Catalog purchase requests for parts, material, and contract labor need for planned and emergency repairs.

• Creation of stock reservations for planned work

• Oversees the Pick Ticket creation for planned work
• Assist Storeroom function in the kitting and staging of job material requirement
• Expedites purchase orders with vendors and Purchasing Department as need to support Maintenance and Engineering
• Assists with planning and scheduling for shutdowns (major and minor)
• Responsible for the maintenance of the Bills of Material (Parts lists) for assets including ensuring current information is accurate
• Participation in budgetary preparation, tracking, and analysis
• Assists Issue Clerks in issuing storeroom tools, parts, supplies, materials, equipment, etc.
• Oversee the shipping and receiving of repairs on critical parts both inventory and non-inventory.
• Arranging trucking for pickup and delivery
• Creating PR for inventory items
• Receiving repairs material and delivering to storage location
• Maintaining and clean and orderly storeroom
• Assuring receipt of item into computer system – includes contract services same day as physical receipt
• Ensures physical receipts of material and services aligns with the records received against the purchase requisitions.
• Receive and forward invoices to Accounts Payable as needed
• Review and complete the unreceivable report and work with requesters, suppliers, and purchasing to resolve issue in a timely manner
• Reconciles invoicing issues with Accounting Department personnel.
• Over sees the delivery of parts and supplies to other PTClocations.
• Resolves payroll discrepancies and requests wage adjustments for direct reports
• Oversees the purchase order receiving transactions daily via computer including invoice cost adjustments for accounting.
• Keeps track of learner and apprentice hours.
• Generates work orders from purchase orders for items where PTC machine shop is the vendor.
• Maintains personnel records for Storeroom Employees
• Maintains vacation schedule for Storeroom Employees
• Provides storeroom personnel with information as required
• Over sees the stores issue transactions daily in computer for shot, banding iron, greases, , roll shafts, etc.
• Manages and creates the material information records for inventory and non-inventory parts, materials, and supplies
• Oversees inventory cycle counts, provides results, and actions to improvement
• Validates and provide the leadership team with inventory adjust request
• Drive continuous improvement to improve the storerooms safety, quality, and efficiency of operations
• Types letters and reports
• Performs clerical and miscellaneous duties for buyer(s) as needed.
• Performs other duties as required.
• Assumes leadership responsibilities in the department as needed.

The incumbent is expected to understand that all employees have a shared responsibility for the quality of products and related services provided to our customers. Duties and Responsibilities are to be carried out in accordance with the PTC Quality Management System and its policies, procedures, and work instructions as applicable to the job or function being performed.

Minimum Education and/or Experience Requirements:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); with two-year warehouse or storeroom experience and two years of maintenance or production leader ship experience in a manufacturing environment.

Number of Direct Reports: 6-9

Job Titles of Direct Reports: Parts Room Attendant, Tool Crib Attendant, Tool Grinder

Skills and Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Other Skills and Abilities: Must be computer literate and able to work with programs such as Word, Excel, etc., and be able to learn and use HP programs such as e-mail, One World and established programs, etc.

Work Environment:

• -The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

• -The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand. The employee is occasionally required to sit and smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.