May 16, 2019

Maintenance Planner,American Woodmark Corporation-Moorefield

Responsibilities:

  • Strict adherence to and promotion of the company's core values, CITE Principles, and culture.
  • Maintain appropriate records and files to permit meaningful analysis and reporting of results or work done.
  • Principal contact and liaison person between the maintenance department and the plant departments served by maintenance
  • Review work orders for completion and validity. Assure all resources and materials are available to include blueprints, drawings, and instructional manuals. May need to make additional sketches or diagrams to clarify the intent of the work order.
  • Estimate jobs showing sequence of steps, the number of mechanics and required man-hours for each step. Lists determinable materials and any special tools or equipment needed. Estimate total cost of each work order.
  • Maintain backlog files of work orders awaiting scheduling in accordance with their priority limits with an estimated completion date.
  • Review the estimate of the current day's schedule status and forecast of manpower availability on a daily basis. Develop a maintenance work schedule for the maintenance area supervisor/manager.
  • Attend meetings with the production planning department and participates in the overall plant scheduling of the following week's work; negotiate for downtime "windows" during which preventive and corrective maintenance requiring downtime can be performed.
  • Recommend equipment to be included in preventive maintenance programs.
  • Plans and schedules preventive maintenance work in coordination with production and maintenance supervisors.
  • On the basis of firm work schedules, coordinates requisition of all predetermined parts, materials and special tools and ensures that equipment to be worked on will be available and ready. Arranges for any safety inspection, fire and standby watch.
  • Discusses "planning packages" as necessary with special instructions or considerations to be observed in the execution of the jobs and reviews new jobs coming up in the future.
  • Follow up to ensure the completed schedules and work orders are properly and timely returned.
  • Promote the conservation of energy.
  • Schedule weekly meetings with the production supervisors and the maintenance supervisors concerned with the areas for which he/she is responsible, consulting with them regarding facilities or equipment to be maintained.
  • Makes recommendations to production concerning long-range maintenance needs and, in collaboration with production, prepares a weekly forecast of all jobs expected to be scheduled for the following week.
  • Develops a file of standard work orders (plans) for regularly recurring repair jobs, based on historical experience, to simplify the planning process.
  • Reviews with the maintenance area supervisors the actual labor expended versus estimated labor and material used for completed jobs, in order to determine corrective measures needed to improve the accuracy of estimating and improving methods of doing work.
  • Assists maintenance and production management in periodically analyzing costs and, where necessary, recommends corrective action needed to reduce maintenance costs.
  • Keep the maintenance manager properly informed on all abnormal or critical situations and seeks advice on matters outside of the planner's knowledge or authority.
  • Performs other tasks and special assignments as requested by the maintenance manager.

Requirements:

  • Undergraduate degree in technology or business related field a plus
  • 1-3 years of experience as a maintenance mechanic in a manufacturing setting preferred
  • CMMS experience is a plus
  • Excellent planning and organizing skills, especially in project-oriented environments
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to build effective business relationships
  • Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and PowerBI; skills in Ignition are a plus
  • Management style and duties must be consistent with and support the current AWC Vision and CITE principles.

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