Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner

This exciting role will be responsible for coordinating and optimizing maintenance activities across multiple sites within the organization. A solid understanding of preventative maintenance planning within an automated manufacturing environment and leadership skills will be needed to be successful in this role. They are headquartered in the Burlington, WA area. The company is a leading designer and manufacturer of solar cells and PV Modules for the renewable energy industry. If you are an individual who loves to implement preventative maintenance plans, this role could be for you

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing preventative maintenance plans, ensuring efficient communication between maintenance and operations, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment reliability and minimize downtime.
• Support New Projects by implementing new equipment PMs and introducing them into CMMS.
• Describe what needs to be accomplished, and estimate labor hours, tools, and resources needed to complete different work orders.
• Standardize and prepare preventative maintenance plans and schedules that are in sync with the organization's maintenance goals across all sites.
• Act as the primary liaison person between maintenance and operations.
• Lead communication between maintenance and other internal beneficiaries of maintenance work to ensure that everyone receives timely, efficient, and quality service.
• Coordinate planned downtimes to reduce mean time between failures and minimize interference with the production schedule.
• Minimize the number of interruptions once work begins.
• Support the sites in establishing Maintenance Workforce job goals and objectives.
• Support all company sites by consolidating spare parts to minimize inventory.
• Leading global updates to CMMS.
• Provide Constant training to all sites on CMMS.
• Administrator for all Changes that take place across sites in CMMS.
• Lead continuous improvement ideas on Preventative Maintenance Tasks.
• Ensure Compliance with the controlled document process.
• Keeper of all Maintenance Records across all sites.
• Utilizing CMMS data, generate weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for each site on Maintenance KPIs.
• Generate Dashboards highlighting equipment Maintenance status (i.e. MTBF, MTTR, Availability, PM Completion, etc.).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of related maintenance planning experience within a high-volume fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Computer skills in MS Office Platform (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and proficient knowledge of various CMMS software.
• Strong attention to detail, precision, problem-solving and time management skills.
• Able to travel throughout Canada and the USA 20% of the time.

Salary Range:

• $78,000-85,000 per year depending on experience, plus 8-10% annual bonus.