Maintenance Planner/Scheduler at Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc. – Oakland, Mississippi

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing job plans for the Maintenance Department.

Essential functions of the job include reviewing and prioritizing work orders, preparing Technician schedules, and utilizing CMMS and JDE systems to review and prioritize, assign, and close maintenance work orders.

The Planner will also supervise and coordinate priorities for purchasing parts, the work order process, and parts storage practices.

• Review work requests and work orders for priority and update work orders to appropriate status
• Determine job scoping requirements and either scope job or obtain scoping from qualified trades
• Build new PM’s and add to the CMMS system
• Develop work procedures for maintenance jobs with necessary information, including skills, tasks, parts, tools, auxiliary equipment, contractors, and estimated time required
• Determine required parts/materials on each work order; verify parts/materials are available and provide details to MRO buyer to acquire parts/materials as necessary
• Supervise weekend work activities when needed, be a trainer on the CMMS, support the parts room supervisor and Parts Clerks.
• Ensure all resources are purchased, entered in to inventory, and allocated through the work order process.
• Coordinate with the Parts Clerks to determine required parts/materials for all stock items. projects and verify parts/materials are available and assist in assembling kits for technicians.
• Coordinate with MRO buyer to identify material requirements, generate purchase orders and required delivery dates
• Create and maintain standard task list for PMS and frequent jobs
• Generate a complete 28-day draft schedule (2 week fixed, remaining 2 weeks tentative) and review with Operations to ensure available trades hours and asset availability
• Work with Operations and production scheduling to coordinate maintenance shutdown schedule with the production schedule
• Work with accounting to give asset numbers to new and existing assets not currently in the CMMS system
• Work with trades supervisors to understand status of ongoing work, including delays and overruns
• Confirm material availability before scheduling jobs
• Arrange and schedule the necessary special support equipment (contractors, cranes, etc.)
• Backlog management including daily, weekly and monthly backlog reviews and purging aged work orders as required
• Confirm start dates for work orders based on priorities and production needs Additional job duties as requested daily and weekly.

• High school diploma or GED required. Some technical education strongly preferred.
• 1-3 years of industrial maintenance and a technical understanding of plant and facility equipment required.
• Working knowledge of JDE and CMMS systems preferred.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office
• Some Excel skills required
• Strong organizational skills and ability to focus on details required.
• Strong communication skills (reading, writing and verbal) are essential to interface with co-workers, Team Leaders and Managers
• Ability to work as part of a team to achieve desired results; also, must be self-motivated and able to work with little or no supervision.