Job Description

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Purpose of the Job:

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for assisting with the development of reliability based maintenance strategy, based on preventative and predictive maintenance. This individual will work directly with the Maintenance Team Leader to build a reliable and effective CMMS system and maintenance team. The Planner will work independently and with other plant personnel to perform preventative, predictive and routine maintenance tasks.

The Maintenance Planner makes a direct contribution to important plant goals of increasing labor productivity, reducing maintenance costs and improving equipment reliability. This is accomplished by preparing detailed job plans, coordinating key scheduling activities with other departments and ensuring work order data integrity. This person needs a complete understanding of the store room function, inventory management and parts distribution.

The Planner will have the primary authority and responsibility for overseeing the management of store room inventories, activity and ensuring inventory data integrity. This role serves as the central point of contact for all maintenance repair and operations (MRO) materials management system. This position is expected to lead and participate in plant level Continuous Improvement, Lean, Root Cause Analysis and Six Sigma projects when applicable.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

· Demonstrate EAM proficiency utilizing the Materials Management and Maintenance modules of the CMMS

· Run inventory cost modules to identify overstock and under stock conditions and adjust stock levels when necessary.

· Generate and analyze key performance indicator reports (i.e. daily stock movement, due-in, past-due, monthly inventory accuracy, mean time between failure ect.)

· Schedule, oversee and create cycle count documents

· Convert work requests to work orders in CMMS/EAM system

· Review and close out completed work orders

· Update equipment history and other pertinent information

· Continuously improve the preventative and predictive maintenance activities by utilizing key performance indicators as well as work order and customer feedback.

· Approving and prioritizing new work order requests. Analyze work order feedback.

· Ensure accuracy of the information on the new work requests before the request is converted to a work order

· Use historical data to estimate labor hours needed to perform the work

· Provide cost estimates to include labor, material and outside services for work orders

· Provide up-to-date work load (backlog) status and ensure the accuracy, so that plant wide priorities and use of manpower resources can be optimized

· Drive high service level in support of planned and scheduled maintenance work

· Work closely with others (Warehouse, Purchasing, Engineering and Vendors) as required in planning and pre-scheduling jobs

· Plan jobs and create required job information packages for scheduled work

· Prepare and communicate job planning packages for scheduled jobs to all involved and affected

· Determine actual sequence of work (i.e. prep work, lock-out, burn and confined space permits required, job steps and necessary follow-up)

· Initiate requisitions as needed for planned jobs

· Prepare a preliminary weekly schedule for the next work week

· Facilitate the weekly scheduling meeting to jointly review/approve the weekly schedule with the Department Managers, Maintenance Manager and Production Planner

· Visit job sites to evaluate effectiveness and efficiency audit

· Communicate with Department Managers on the status of open work orders and provide feedback on completed work orders.

· Demonstrate a working knowledge of company purchasing procedures

· Coordinate and follow-up delivery of special equipment needed from vendors

· Lead the MRO Materials Team

· Exchange common planning information with Planners from other facilities

· Provide support by contacting vendors converting cost and availability of parts

· Arrange support personnel, contractors and equipment as needed for the next week’s scheduled jobs

· Provide information to update drawings, parts lists, job steps when necessary

· Establish and maintain an effective Master Maintenance Schedule for preventative and predictive maintenance activities (PPM)

· Day-today operations and management of all store room functions

· Enforce store room policies and procedures

· Input/update asset information in CMMS/EAM system (i.e. vendor information, price, equipment hierarchy, PO#, store room location and any other information that may not have already been captured)

· Allocate/reserve stock parts for scheduled jobs in CMMS/EAM system

· Manage stock levels needed to support daily manufacturing and maintenance material requirements

· Communicate specific requirements to “reserve”, “stage” and “deliver” materials to coincide with scheduled maintenance work.

Skills Needed

· Assertive and influential in coordinating others (in various positions and departments) to provide planning and scheduling related assistance

· Comfortable working with managers from all departments

· Efficiency minded, well organized and disciplined

· High Energy

· Results Driven

· Organizational design, LEAN and business planning skills

· Communication, interpersonal and problem solving skills

· Communication and interpersonal skills

· Ability to motivate, train and delegate responsibility

· Ability to lead, build consensus and work within a team environment

· Initiate and manage change

· Demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Project, Access and Outlook)

· Ability to successfully facilitate meetings

Preferred Qualifications:

· 3+ years of relevant experience

· Knowledge of plant equipment and processes

Working Conditions and Environment/Physical Demands:

1. Must be able to sit, stand, kneel, squat 8 to 10 hours a day

2. Must be able to wear all necessary safety equipment

3. Must be willing to work on manufacturing production floor

4. Turning while carrying 25 lbs

5. Lifting a 40 lbs load from floor level

6. Standard office working conditions apply

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Company Benefits

What You'll Get From Us

Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

Community Engagement

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.

Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact myHRservices@novolex.com.

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