Maintenance Planner

At GF, we see our company as a forward-thinking leader in our field. Since 1802, we have been embracing innovations and sustainable solutions of the highest quality that add value to people’s lives around the globe.

Join us to be part of a forward-thinking, people-centered company where your ideas and contributions truly matter.

This is your opportunity to make a real impact in a collaborative, international environment.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Comply with all site safety and environmental policies.

• Screen all notifications to see that the notification accurately defines the scope of work, meets the criteria for the assigned priority, and is a valid request for work to be performed by maintenance personnel and financed by the applicable maintenance expense budget. The planner converts notifications into maintenance work orders (MWO) and creates a maintenance work plan. As needed, the planner secures additional information prior to converting the notification into a maintenance order.

• Create detailed job plans for all MWOs. Detailed job plans could include: tasks evaluation; manpower estimates by craft or contractor to support best practice scheduling and note any applicable safety regulations/concerns.

• Maintain a planned backlog

• Create and maintain maintenance database. This includes data input for functional locations, equipment, bills of material, reusable job plans for repetitive jobs, predictive/preventive maintenance task list, equipment items and maintenance plans.

• Organize and maintain maintenance stores inventory. 

• Maintain crane training certification.  Train others as required.

• Provide materials, tools, services and equipment through requisitioning, storehouse stock, purchasing cards or rentals.

• Create and maintain Preventive/Predictive Maintenance (PPM) tasks/orders via maintenance software to be used in the scheduling process.

• Provide input to the planning/scheduling metrics and provide services to help maintain metric target levels.

• Communicate with maintenance, operations, vendors, manufacturers and contractors; facilitate expedition of materials and services.

• Develop scope of work for competitive bid processes.

• Following execution of the work, certain critical information is recorded for future reference including: correction of any parts related data, identification of the failure code for the work involved, update any reusable job plans as needed, capture of any data specific to the job and included in the maintenance software record, close out of the MWO.

• Create and maintain data base of planned ready-to-work MWOs to be used in the daily/weekly or mini-outage scheduling processes. This includes reporting accurate resource data to the Planning Lead to support scheduling resource leveling. Coordinate MWO prioritization with Maintenance Manager and Operations Maintenance Coordinator

• Create and publish weekly and daily schedules

Knowledge & Skill Requirements:

This position should possess the following skills/knowledge:

• High school education

• Ability to read, write, and speak English clearly

• Minimum of three years maintenance experience in an industrial environment

• Planning/Scheduling experience is preferred

• Ability to obtain a licensed fork truck operator

Core Values:

• Respect for people 

• Honesty     

• Excellent reputation

Core and Critical Competencies:

The following competencies in which all employees shall have a satisfactory level of skills:

• Safety                                           

• Ethics                                            

• Customer Focus

• Problem solving                 

• Interpersonal skills             

• Leadership                                                 

• Planning skills                    

• Continuous improvement

• Communications

Technical Skills:

• Trouble shooting skills

• Ability to read electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic prints

• Working knowledge of Microsoft software packages (Excel, Word, etc)

• Two year college technical degree or technical training preferred.

• Experience with a working maintenance planning software (FiiX, MP2, SAP)

• SAP experience required

Physical Requirements:

• Walking – frequently  4-5 hrs

• Standing – 2 hrs

• Climbing – occasionally

• Squatting/Stooping – Rarely

• Reaching – occasionally

• Lifting  - up to 40# frequently

• Lifting – 50# to 75# with assisted apparatus (overhead crane/forklift)

Safety Requirements:

• The employee is responsible to comply with all company and government safety regulations and procedures.

• Must wear proper PPE  

Please submit your application via the ‘Apply’ button.