Reliability Planning Analyst

Pay Range: $22.00hr - $31.00hr

Job Overview:

The organization is seeking a Reliability Planning Analyst to support a team of multi-skilled technicians in a manufacturing, warehouse/distribution, and office environment. The Reliability Planning Analyst is responsible for the effective execution of all maintenance work controls processes. The primary role is to improve workforce productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labor, parts and material, tools and equipment, required permits, specialized documentation and equipment access. This position is empowered to manage work priority, develop job plans, define parts and materials, define crafts and skills, and engage the proper resources to develop a safe, effective and efficient work control plan.

Responsibilities:

• Upholds safety, health, and environmental procedures; communicates directly; and supports the EHS policies to ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA and organization and site-specific rules and regulations always.
• Acts as the principal liaison between the maintenance department and operation planning.
• Maximizes resources by identifying parts, materials, special tools, external services, rentals and documentation by establishing, maintaining and improving the maintenance planning and scheduling flow and process tasks.
• Receives and reviews all planned work orders from the requesting departments and screens each work order to verify proper completion with all required information.
• Examines planned work orders and determines scope and best practices to accomplish work.
• Identifies work requiring engineering and design and reviews with proper entities.
• Escalates issues to the Reliability Manager for work that requires special tools, personnel or special approvals.
• Develops full scope and extent of work required, including cost and time required to conduct the relevant repair, preventive, predictive, and improvement maintenance activities of the plant equipment, buildings and grounds.
• Prepares job plans for scheduling, detailing parts, materials, special tools and external services and documentation with planned costs, including the sequencing of associated tasks.
• Performs root cause analysis for continuous improvement.
• Initiates and implements best practices with emphasis on planning/scheduling the preventive and predictive maintenance work.
• Analyzes unplanned work orders and occurrences for incorporation into corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensures that all maintenance personnel understand the work instructions using a procedures-based maintenance strategy and best practices for all maintenance tasks.
• Ensures maintenance personnel update and close each work order when completed.
• Prepares reports, collects and analyzes data, and makes recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance and operations related problems.
• Maximizes equipment reliability and availability through effective use of planned maintenance to quickly return equipment to design capacity and develops effective and applicable procedures to ensure defect free quality maintenance work.
• Develops maintenance work schedule for affected areas including PM, PDM and Service Work Orders (SWOs).
• Develops and adheres to prioritization of work tasks.
• Performs post job reviews to ensure actual work performed and post repair operation is satisfactory.
• Identifies and changes scope of PM or PDM (based on activity results) and SWO.
• Maintains the CMMS while managing and tracking work orders, backlog, and spare parts and creates a machine history of plant equipment and reallocates resources as required.
• Coordinates with Site Maintenance Manager and Operations to schedule workforce and resources for workforce and cost optimization.
• Develops a system of planned job packages for recurring tasks.
• Identifies, secures, and preplaces all parts and materials required to complete the work by providing stores with a Bill of Material for the work orders and kit of parts for maximum efficiency.
• Creates a critical spares list and procures or identifies sources for procurement to reduce lead times.
• Continuously improves the job estimate, planning and scheduling process by utilizing feedback from the maintenance team.
• Maintains accurate metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and provides information for continuous improvement.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of skilled crafts such as HVAC, Mechanics, Electrical, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, Plumbing, Pipe Fitting, and Cranes.
• Tracks performance metrics such as schedule compliance, PM compliance, mean time between failure, planning maintenance vs. reactive maintenance, and backlog.
• The candidate may be required to travel locally to other locations for support.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or demonstrated equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Two years of Facility Planning experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or able to work without sponsorship.

Additional Information:

• This position may require a valid state driver's license.
• This position will require the ability to obtain a security access badge at the client's location.
• This position may require various shifts, weekends, and alternative work schedules.
• Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment background check and substance abuse test.

Special Requirements:

• Ability to wear steel toe safety shoes, safety glasses, gloves, hard hats and other Personal Protective Equipment as needed.
• Ability to cope with demands and stressors associated with the job and work environment to maintain acceptable levels of performance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in a CMMS such as Maximo, SAP, or an equivalent program.
• Preventive and/or Predictive maintenance planning experience.
• Ability to coordinate parts and assign the appropriate skilled labor to ensure successful completion.
• Ability to write processes and procedures related to facility maintenance work.
• Practical experience with continuous improvement techniques such as Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Six Sigma, 5S, or Client Production Systems.
• Demonstrated understanding of an effective safety culture.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Demonstrated skills in organization and time management.

Physical Requirements(Due to nature of job, The candidate must have):

• Ability to perform repetitive wrist movement.
• Ability to walk extensively throughout facilities during a workday.
• Ability to read and understand information contained in a variety of documents or displayed on a computer screen.
• Ability to use a variety of office equipment and operate a computer keyboard.
• Ability to attend meetings throughout the site and travel to other locations.
• Ability to communicate with others on the telephone and in discussions.
• Ability to move light to medium weight materials into desks and storage locations.
• Ability to interact with clients in a professional manner despite periods of stress.