Associate Maintenance Planner

The role

The Maintenance Planner / Scheduler manages site level Work Execution Management processes. This person validates work requests, estimates resources, and maintains a planned work order backlog.

What you will do

• Promotes and adheres to ATS Beyond Zero Safety culture
• Perform daily sync with supervisors/Crew Leads to validate incoming work requests
• Evaluates non-emergency work requests, develops scope of work, and inspects job location
• Estimates labor hours, skills, parts, materials, equipment and special tools
• Gathers relevant technical documentation and verifies availability of parts
• Maintains a planned and organized ready work order backlog
• Conducts weekly scheduling meetings with production
• Creates a weekly technician schedule
• Employs the cycle of continuous improvement process to create/update reusable Job Plans
• Trains site employees on CMMS and maintains equipment data in CMMS

Required qualifications

• Associate Degree required in a technical field with 1 year of maintenance scheduling / planning experience and/or 3 years as a machine repair technician, or equivalent combination of both
• Familiar with industrial manufacturing environment
• Electrical/mechanical aptitude
• Proficiency with computers, maintenance systems, and applications including Microsoft Office
• Excellent verbal communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Ability to build and maintain positive, professional relationships
• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands/fingers, reach, climb, ascend/descend or balance to heights
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl in confined spaces
• Occasionally required to sit
• Must occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds
• Regularly required to use close vision and color vision
• Exposure to outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock, loud factory environment, hazardous materials and/or greasy or slippery factory floors

Nice to have

• Desire to develop leadership attributes
• Experience in job plan development, job scheduling, and work execution management
• Project management and capital project experience preferred
• CMRP certification
• Green Belt certification
• STS certification

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision plans
• PTO
• 401k retirement plans with employer matching
• tuition reimbursement

About the company

Founded in 1985, ATS is a company with a presence in the United States, Mexico and the United Kingdom. They are professionals in Industrial Maintenance.