Maintenance Planner

Responsible for the planning and scheduling of all plant maintenance activities including the coordination of preventive, planned, and un-planned maintenance .

Processes and prioritizes work orders, examine and determine best approach for work order completion.

Analyzes all planned change parts and makes recommendations for Preventative Maintenance changes.

Ensures functional standards are maintained between maintenance, accounting and production departments along with accountability of external vendors.

Initiates requisitions for maintenance and indirect purchases.

Acts as a liaison between the production, engineering, and maintenance departments.

Position Responsibilities

• Ensures parts inventory is adequate to support production/drumbeat activity and at the lowest possible level.
• Leads Pre and Post Drumbeat meetings as well as all Drumbeat activities.
• Ensures work orders are accomplished and correctly prioritized.
• Communicates daily with maintenance, production, accounting and vendors to resolve any issues.
• Communicates daily and weekly notes on planned and unplanned work
• Supervisor functions.

  (Weekend Rotation, Cover absences, First Hours and ensuring standard work process adherence)

• Makes equipment numbers, tasks and task numbers
• Adds parts to tasks.

  (PM03 PM01).

• Verifies accurate tagging in LEDS, PM02 notification, and BDAR
• Assists with BDAR review.
• Requisition parts and materials as needed for work order packages and non-stocked items.
• Creates reports as needed
• Attend weekly departmental RR
• Identifies and develops projects for continuous improvement within the department and the plant, including reliability improvements
• Identifies and implements cost reduction projects in the facility.
• Reviews work order backlog and rework to determine root cause and provide improvement recommendations
• Reduces inventory through standardization – (excess inventory)
• Develops standard work order templates for jobs that are repetitive and require only time planning
• Works with other planners on updating PM’s (hour based, functionality, recommended changes, etc…)
• Supports other departments and project work as needed.

Position Qualifications

• High school diploma required, bachelor’s degree preferred
• SAP or CMMS experience
• Formal planner training or experience
• One to three years experience in maintenance role in a manufacturing environment
• Food manufacturing experience
• Background in Allen-Brady PLC’s. 
• Computer skills, MS-Word, MS-Excel, and CAD.
• Must be able to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to define problems collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret a variety of technical information in mathematical and/or narrative form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to understand people and have good inter-personal skills when working with skilled and/or unskilled people.
• Ability to understand how to work with the customer and who the customer is.
• Ability to know what the priorities are and how to set those priorities when working with the customer.
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently with good time management skills and flexibility.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.

The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance
• Wealth: great pay, incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: online courses, virtual and classroom development experiences
• Balance: paid-time off, paternal leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)

Our Company:

Conagra Brands is one of North America’s leading branded food companies.

We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team that’s passionate about innovation and growth.

Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender’s ®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, and emerging brands, including Angie’s® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke’s®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®.

We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry.

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Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law.

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Conagra Brands (NYSE: CAG) is an approximately $11 billion company that combines a rich heritage of making great food with a sharpened focus and entrepreneurial spirit.

We’re transforming the way we operate to fulfill what consumers and customers want, in a smart, simple way.

We’re modernizing our iconic food brands, leveraging fresh opportunities and adapting to a changing landscape – all with a culture that’s ready to capture growth and drive shareholder value.