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With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.\nGuided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.\nWe are seeking a Maintenance Planner for our First Quality Tissue location in Lock Haven, PA.\nJob Function:\nResponsible for providing improvements in maintenance work force effectiveness by eliminating potential for delays and obstacles through proper planning, being the facilitator for the maintenance planning meetings on a weekly basis, plans, and maintains documentation for repairs, teams with operations and maintenance supervisors on identification, coordination, and execution of maintenance work.\nJob Responsibilities:\nAdhere to the Maintenance Work Process to identify work orders, audit work orders for accuracy, and provide feedback on completed work to Operations and Maintenance Teams.\nScope and verify type and amount of work required for work orders by visiting site/location of work needed.\nReport all conditions requiring maintenance services.\nParticipate in weekly non-outage work scheduling meetings and challenges work order priority when needed based on knowledge, experience, equipment status, and production demands.\nScreens work orders to determine ability to complete work on the run or whether work requires a shutdown (outage) to safely complete.\nParticipates in determining if indirect work procedures apply for specific work orders.\nAudits content of work order documentation to ensure all required information is present (i.e. equipment identification, clear description of problem, correct coding, proper trade identification, work order type, cost center, estimated labor hours and manpower required to complete, priority rating, work order status, and class).\nFacilitates weekly work order planning meeting.\nEnsures all preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, basic care, compliance, and safety routes that are due are put in Ready to Schedule status and the Operations and Maintenance teams are made aware of what routes are due.\nReviews work order backlog for all overdue preventive maintenance routes and outage preparation work.\nPrepares a weekly forecast of all work that will be ready to schedule for the following week.\nEnsures history changes for completed work are entered into the CMMS.\nObtains outside resources as necessary (contractors, vendors, parts, etc.).\nDevelop planned work order packages that include but not limited to: materials/parts required, repair procedures, schematics and drawings, risk assessment checklists, specific tooling required, lockout and confined space entry procedures, repair history, manpower estimates, additional environmental or safety concerns.\nMaintain standard work order packages for repetitive tasks.\nIdentify any logistical or coordination bottlenecks (i.e. crane usage, lift availability, conflicts with other work being done).\nIdentify suspect equipment by reviewing work history to confirm repeat failures and communicate the identified issues to Maintenance Supervisors and Operations teams.\nOrder materials as needed for work orders by:\nContacting vendors and ensuring correct materials are ordered\nCreate purchase requisitions for non-stock parts and materials needed to perform work while ensuring requisitions have all proper documentation, description, cost centers, and vendors identified correctly\nUtilize the pick ticket system to ensure all stock parts are ordered through the Storeroom, ensure parts are retrieved from Storeroom and delivered to job site ahead of scheduled work start\nTrack parts and material orders to ensure timely delivery\nEnsure work order status for pertinent work orders changed from Awaiting Parts to Ready to Schedule and communicate the status change to Operations and Maintenance teams\nReturn all unused parts\nCoordinate and manage service representatives and contractors to develop scope of work and ensuring competitive bids are obtained when required.\nEnsure contractor management training is completed\nEnsure all contract job documentation is completed as required\nResponsible for ensuring duplicate or unnecessary work orders are deleted from the backlog\nAudit and close out completed work orders\nAdds and updates equipment records within the CMMS, including new installations, demolitions and removal, etc.\nEnsure availability of critical spare parts and act as a resource to locate needed spare parts\nIdentify need and submit approval to stock new parts in storeroom\nTrain team members in the use of the CMMS\nParticipate and lead Root Cause Analysis investigations as needed\nPreserve physical data to assist in failure investigations\nEnsure maintenance shop housekeeping at acceptable levels at all times\nParticipate in the budgeting process to identify needed equipment/facility repairs\nSupports the Maintenance Supervisors, Engineers, and support teams as needed to achieve goals and objectives\nComplies with, and is a role model for, all First Quality safety and handbook protocols\nInterfaces with the Operations team for daily, weekly, monthly, and outage maintenance work planning\nCoordinate work in support of the mill’s lubrication effort\nBe a role model demonstrating the FQT “Rules of Engagement”\nFill in as the supervisor when they are absent from the mill\nTake off-shift and weekend calls to cover as maintenance supervisor\nParticipate in weekend on-call coverage rotation\nThe ideal candidate should possess the following:\nUnderstanding of CMMS in use at site or equivalent experience with alternate CMMS systems\nPossess excellent time management and organizational skills.\nAbove average troubleshooting skills with analytical thought processes.\nDemonstrates good leadership qualities - accountability, credibility, trust...\nEmploys excellent interpersonal and communication skills.\nPossesses intermediate computer and logic skills.\nIdeal candidate will have functioned in a maintenance role for five years, preferably within the hiring department\nStandard knowledge of safety regulations within the manufacturing field\nWhat We Offer You\nWe believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:\nCompetitive base salary and bonus opportunities\nPaid time off (three-week minimum)\nMedical, dental and vision starting day one\n401(k) with employer match\nPaid parental leave\nChild and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)\nBundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)\nTuition assistance\nWellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums\n...and more!\nFirst Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.\nFirst Quality is an Equal Opportunityemployer. 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