Maintenance Planner

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued Team Members, will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms Team. We offer the experience of a large organization, however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage Team Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

($67,100 - $83,875 annually Plus eligible for 5% target bonus)

We offer our Team Members the following benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision health insurance for themselves and their eligible dependents.
• Voluntary benefits such as Group Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Group Accident Coverage, Group Critical Illness Coverage, Individual Short-Term Disability Insurance, and Whole Life Insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care FSA and Dependent Daycare FSA).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• College tuition reimbursement (70% tuition, 70% books, and 70% parking).
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a Company-contribution of up to 4%.
• Vacation, sick, holiday, funeral, and jury duty pay.

The Maintenance Planner is expected to manage and administer the Preventive Maintenance program, Work Order program and manage all facets of the Feed Mill maintenance parts including purchases and inventory. Responsible for assisting with the development of reliability-based maintenance strategy based on preventive and predictive maintenance. Work directly with the Management to build a reliable maintenance program. The Planner will work independently and with other plant personnel to perform preventative, predictive and routine maintenance tasks. In addition, the position will manage, organize and collaborate with contracted maintenance personnel for planned plant maintenance. The Planner position requires hands on maintenance experience and knowledge. All tasks will be performed while supporting the policies, goals and objectives of the company.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and schedule preventive and predictive maintenance work orders.
• Enter and Maintain equipment records in SAP data software system.
• Maintain equipment attributes, such as ABC, type, functional location to support repair analysis.
• Setup and maintain all predictive and preventative maintenance plans in SAP to maximize equipment reliability.
• Determine the most effective method/tool to conduct preventative and predictive maintenance checks based on equipment critically.
• Setup PM plan in SAP for each piece of equipment, including frequency, mechanic tasks, parts needs, tools needed, safety procedures.
• Generate PM work orders in SAP, from the PM plans for the next 14-28 days.
• Monitor and report if PM work is being completed to maintain equipment reliability and comply with regulations and audits.
• Release and Schedule PM work orders to maintenance crews.
• Seek input from management to continually improve and adjust PM plans based on equipment and part performance/failure.
• Monitor and analyze SAP part failure data (along with supervisors and manager) to detect trends (good or bad).
• Plan and Schedule Corrective work to maximize crew utilization and effectiveness.
• Reviews work request (SAP Notifications), collaborates with requestor, and create the Work Order.
• Plans the work, including estimated labor by craft (Mech, Elect), and special equipment or permits needed.
• Identifies and reserves parts (or creates purchase requisitions) for parts and services.
• Prepares job plans and work order packets for mechanics.
• Scheduling
• Interfaces with operations to validate work priority and equipment availability.
• Collaborates with Management to schedule downtime.
• Leads weekly maintenance scheduling meeting.
• Prepares weekly metrics.

The minimum requirements for education and experience are listed below. Consideration will be given to individuals with an equivalent combination of education and experience.

B.A. /B.S. degree preferred or A.A/technical school graduate with a minimum of 5 years' experience in maintenance; scheduling or milling operations preferred.

Strong working knowledge of industrial maintenance and electrical functions.

• Ability to build and use maintenance library for repairs.
• Ability to read and interpret technical/engineering documents, drawings, schematics.
• Must have advanced knowledge of maintenance planning and performing root cause analysis of maintenance failures.
• Must have three (3) or more years Supervisory experience.
• Must have knowledge of production equipment fundamentals.
• Must be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with ability to write detailed repair reports.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with little direct supervision.
• Must have a balanced technical/mechanical/electrical/human resource knowledge.
• Must be computer literate in Windows and CMMS environments.
• Must be able to interface on a daily basis with all support groups or departments.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) is helpful.
• Must be able to submit and pass a criminal background check.

Schedule: Must be willing to work a changing shift schedule and on a rotating weekend on call list.

Computer Skills: Proficiency with basic office computer software, and the ability to learn how to effectively use maintenance software to input data, research parts and analyze repair history detail. Thorough working knowledge of Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS), Purchasing, and Microsoft Office products. Prefer SAP experience.

Physical Requirements: The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50lbs.

Working Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts. The team member is regularly exposed to heights. The team member is regularly exposed to high noise environments. The team member is regularly exposed to outside weather in all conditions.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new Team Members.