Mechanical Maintenance Planner

The Mechanical Maintenance Planner supports the execution of timely maintenance activities by receiving, planning, estimating, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance work orders. The role ensures the timely and coordinated availability of facilities and equipment to be worked on, as well as the required parts, materials, special tools and equipment, personnel, and skills necessary for the efficient execution of maintenance work while planning and scheduling all maintenance activities.
Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering discipline related to planning. 
Good command of English, including speaking, reading, and writing. 
5 - 7 years of experience in maintenance planning or related work assignments. 
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, ERP systems (e.g., Oracle Fusion), planning software, dashboards, and reporting tools. 
Good report writing skills and very good communication skills.
Maintenance Work Orders :
Receives all the information, reports about the equipment conditions from the inspection and conditions monitoring section, from the production departments, and based on the information, plans to optimize maintenance in every aspect.
Receives all maintenance work orders from the requestor organizations except for emergency work orders, which are given to the appropriate maintenance supervisor for immediate attention.
Screens each work order to ensure that it has been properly filled out, discusses the details with the originating organizations, ensures that the scope of work is clearly described, ensures that the maintenance work being requested is properly authorized, and that the requested completion date is practical and provides the necessary lead time.
Plans all the maintenance work received by dividing it into basic job steps, determines the sequence relative to each job step, and defines what safety procedures, parts, tools, skills, and personnel are required for each step.
Plans all the maintenance works related to the shutdown of the installations: kilns, Cement mills, and Raw mills in a safe and efficient manner and in accordance with Company policies and procedures.
Once a job is planned, and prior to scheduling, the planner verifies the availability of the required resources comprising manpower, spare parts, materials, procedures, specifications, drawings, and special tools that will be required for execution. Initiates action for acquiring spare parts and materials that are not available.
For work orders requiring partial participation of the non-concerned department, non-electrical & electronics maintenance personnel, copies of the original work orders are provided to the appropriate planner and coordinates in the planning for the supplemental work that is required within the overall plan for that work order.          
Prepares copies of work orders for jobs that are parts of the preventive maintenance program and standing work orders for selected repetitive jobs that are not included in such programs. Issue the work orders for execution in accordance with their established frequency from a master schedule. Initiates work orders for repairs discovered on Preventive Maintenance Inspections and obtains all required approvals.
Maintains a backlog of all work orders awaiting scheduling in accordance with their priority limits. Prepares backlog reports for his assigned area/s of responsibility.
At all times keeps advised on the status of minor maintenance log book jobs, and should such backlogs become excessive, schedules personnel for performing such work
Scheduling:
Develops each week a maintenance work schedule for the following week for the supervisors designated to his area. Selects from the backlog file for each crew, a group of work orders that can be scheduled and which will match with the skill capabilities of the crewmembers, taking into account and carry-over jobs from the previous schedule.
Prepares the weekly scheduling meeting, which includes the different sections from the production and maintenance departments to improve downtime through maintenance system.
Develops maintenance work schedule for each shutdown of Kilns, Cement mills and Raw mills to ensure work is being done in a timely, effective, and efficient manner.
Develops each day a maintenance work schedule for the following days for the Supervisors and Foremen designated to his area. Selects from the weekly planning for each crew, a group of work orders that can be scheduled and which will match with the skill capabilities of the crewmembers, taking into account and carry-over jobs from the previous schedule.
In the selection of jobs for scheduling, it is essential to meet the deadlines established by the requestor/s as well as maintaining the preventive maintenance schedule. If any work orders cannot be scheduled within the priority framework, the requesting organization must be immediately notified so that appropriate action may be taken to adjust that priority.
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