Maintenance Planner
Kodiak, AK
Full Time
Processing
Mid Level
At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members’ personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.
Summary:
The Maintenance Planner at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Maintenance team supporting efforts to optimize plant safety and efficiency, minimize production downtime, promote cost reduction, and drive continue improvement projects. This position involves building and maintaining our maintenance management system (Maintain-X) to ensure efficient and proper planning and scheduling of work orders and preventative maintenance aligned with production demands. This role demands a high level of organization, adaptability, and willingness to work collaboratively with management, maintenance and skilled labor team members.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Material and Work Order Management:
Summary:
The Maintenance Planner at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Maintenance team supporting efforts to optimize plant safety and efficiency, minimize production downtime, promote cost reduction, and drive continue improvement projects. This position involves building and maintaining our maintenance management system (Maintain-X) to ensure efficient and proper planning and scheduling of work orders and preventative maintenance aligned with production demands. This role demands a high level of organization, adaptability, and willingness to work collaboratively with management, maintenance and skilled labor team members.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Material and Work Order Management:
- Review maintenance work requests/orders for accuracy, clarity, resources and materials needed.
- Obtain and organize all information required for the work being performed (i.e. drawings, vendor manuals, special procedures, etc.).
- Create, modify, release, monitor and prioritize maintenance orders in the maintenance management system daily, addressing issues promptly to avoid unnecessary delays.
- Prepare requisitions to ensure materials, parts, labor and other expenses are allocated to the appropriate work order.
- Use critical planning methods to coordinate and optimize workflows.
- Establish and maintain advance work planning for capital improvement and job order contract projects.
- Maintain and monitor a weekly schedule for all work orders to meet safety, production, and efficiency concerns and adjust timelines as priorities change.
- Verifies all material, information, tools, and labor are available prior to scheduling.
- Prepare and present comprehensive reports tracking work order status, project timeline updates, spend to budget, and recommendations for changes as needed.
- Analyze supply needs to reduce excess inventory and material shortfalls.
3. Collaboration and Coordination:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member:
- Collaborate with Maintenance and Warehouse teams to control spare part usage to maximize inventory control through regular turnover and reduce maintenance costs.
- Coordinate maintenance needs with operational leaders to minimize downtime.
- Assists in the development, evaluation, and implementation of detailed standard operating and preventative maintenance procedures.
- Communicate and coordinate inter/intra plant inventory and material transfers as necessary.
- Assist with review of requests for proposal, contracts for maintenance, and similar documents for accuracy, cost analysis, approach, requirements, and recommend appropriate action.
- Demonstrate and champion superior customer service, integrity, and commitment to innovation, efficiency, and fiscally responsible activity.
What You Bring to Pacific Seafood:
Required:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Minimum 3 years of skilled trade experience in electrical, building maintenance, refrigeration, or production operations
- Proficiency using MS Office and computerized maintenance management systems
- Previous experience in planning and scheduling in a production / maintenance environment
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to collaborate and build relationships with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and contractors.
- Knowledge of safety regulations and environmental standards related to maintenance activities.
Preferred:
- Previous work experience in a large-scale food production environment
- Experience directing a team of technicians in preventative maintenance, repair, operations, and safety.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member:
- Sedentary work, walking and standing are required only occasionally.
- Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
- Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
- Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Total Compensation:
At Pacific Seafood, your base wage is only a portion of your overall compensation package. We invest in our Team Members through a comprehensive and attractive total rewards package, including but not limited to:
- Health insurance benefits options, including medical, prescription, vision, dental, basic group life and short-term disability.
- Flexible spending accounts for health flex and dependent care expenses.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan options with generous annual company profit sharing match.
- Paid time off for all regular FT team members, to include paid sick, vacation, holiday, and personal time.
- Employee Assistance Program- Confidential professional counseling, financial, and legal assistance provided at no charge to Team Members and immediate family members
- Product purchase program.
Pacific Seafood is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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