VAM USA

Maintenance Planner

Houston, TX

Full-time

About This Job

Summary:

Seeking an experienced maintenance planner/scheduler that has maintenance experience that schedules preventive and regular maintenance with minimal interruption to production operations. In this capacity, the maintenance planner/coordinator is the principal contact and liaison person between maintenance and production and other supporting departments in relation to determining the timing for execution of planned maintenance work. Additionally, the maintenance scheduler ensures that all internal customers of maintenance receive timely, efficient, and quality services. The maintenance scheduler will adhere to state, federal and in-house maintenance guidelines to prevent safety hazards, increase equipment longevity and improve productivity. The maintenance scheduler is also responsible for observing, following, and enforcing all safety regulations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

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Maximizing operating profit through using planned and scheduled maintenance.

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Quickly returning equipment to design capability through using planned maintenance most effectively.

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Maximizing equipment availability and reliability through most effectively using planned and scheduled maintenance.

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Communicating status and changes to customer service or directly to customers.

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Coordinates predictive and preventative maintenance scheduling.

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The Maintenance Planner/Coordinator will monitor the SAP system.

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Work with crew supervisors to coordinate work through planning that is approved to disrupt the current week's schedule of work.

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Work with crew supervisors to develop schedules for short-notice outage work (SNOW).

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Provide technical expertise and support for the planning and scheduling of Maintenance.

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Plans all works ensuring equipment availability and that work orders have Materials, Labor, Special Tools, Safety Permits defined.

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Follow-up problem-solve, troubleshoot processes, communicating scheduling information and status of maintenance work issues with customers and staff.

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Determine work plans based upon site-wide field trips, priority, available work force, and other criteria, review plans and schedules with associated management.

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Develops revised and review related SOPs or job plans/work plans for work related areas.

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Schedules Major and Minor Site Outages, including Maintenance shutdowns, minimizing the impact to Operations.

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Schedule work by asset criticality and priority ranking and work with operations for asset or system availability.

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Work with stock room MRO (Maintenance Repair and Operations) to pull parts and kit material for planned work.

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Develop integrated maintenance schedules and implement fundamental reliability and maintenance optimization principles in the scheduling process.

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Ensure the improvement of Performance, Availability and Quality (OEE) after every minor or major outage and scheduled maintenance activities.

Interpersonal and leadership skills:

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Must possess interpersonal skills to relate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.

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Must possess good communication skills to interact with different groups of people effectively, both written and verbal.

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Establish and sustain effective relationships with all stakeholders in order to foster an environment where innovation and cooperation are used to solve problems.

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Establish and build relationships with various functional and business leaders in order to drive continuous improvement.

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Communicate best practice reliability methods; insuring team focus is on implementing agreed-upon methods.

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Challenge peers, team members and customers to accept and apply new approaches, technologies and/or processes and facilitates teams to drive cost efficiencies and add economic value.

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Strong leadership, interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.

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Ability to formulate and implement action plans based upon troubleshooting skills and structured problem-solving analysis in order to drive results.

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Ability to lead by involving others in decision processes.

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Implement change, motivate others and encourage team development.

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Ability to influence others through demonstrated competence and respect for data and facts.

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Self-starter, capable of managing multiple priorities with minimal oversight.

Technical and project management skills:

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Demonstrated understanding of technology including complexities of products, machinery and costs.

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Competency in evaluating equipment function design and impact on operation or maintainability.

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Extensive knowledge of reliability technologies, practices, measurements and methods.

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Knowledge of Machine Design.

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Process/Systems design.

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Engineering fundamentals (Mechanical, Electrical & Utilities).

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Ergonomic design.

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Construction practices.

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Regulatory/code/standards compliance.

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Technical Writing.

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Specification’s development.

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Development and interpretation of engineering documentation.

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Capital Project administration/project management processes and techniques.

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Project planning.

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Project estimation and cost control.

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Defining scope of work.

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Annual planning preparation.

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Resource and task planning.

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Workload prioritization.

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Risk Assessment/Risk Reduction.

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Product and vendor evaluation.

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Operations/Manufacturing knowledge.

Computer skills:

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Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications.

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Kronos Payroll System.

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SAP knowledge, heavy CMMS experience.

Business/financial skills:

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Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and reporting.

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Storeroom processes and inventory management principles.

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Capital program/financial drivers.

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Supply Chain processes.

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Material Control processes.

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Product Knowledge.

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New Product process.

Qualifications:

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B.S. in Mechanical, Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering.

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10 Years of Maintenance experience, required.

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3 Years of experience as a Maintenance planner/coordinator, required.

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Candidates will be required to pass a pre-employment background, drug, and alcohol screen.

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Must be available to work 12-hour day and night shifts, weekends, callouts, and overtime.

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Must be able to drive a forklift to perform material handling functions.

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Must be able to work independently with production, project engineering and maintenance to arrange for equipment availability based on requirements.

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Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Experience

Required

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10 year(s): Maintenance experience, required

Equal Opportunity Employer

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