Planner, Maintenance

We are hiring a Maintenance Planner to join our Maintenance team!

DISCOVER

Are you a detail-oriented professional with strong planning and coordination skills? As a Maintenance Planner, you will plan, schedule, and track preventative maintenance tasks and repairs for company assets. Your role is crucial in anticipating potential problems before they occur, creating effective maintenance plans, and coordinating with various departments to ensure resources are available when needed. Your organizational skills and excellent communication will help maintain operational efficiency and minimize downtime across our facilities.

YOUR RIPPLE EFFECT

• Are you skilled with maintenance management systems? Your role involves mastering our computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to effectively plan and schedule corrective and preventative maintenance activities. Your expertise ensures our maintenance operations run smoothly and efficiently.
• Can you coordinate effectively across departments? Successful collaboration with the Maintenance Supervisor is essential as you'll be planning medium-high level priority projects across various timeframes, adapting quickly as production needs dictate. Your coordination skills keep our maintenance activities aligned with business priorities. Are you meticulous with resource planning? We rely on your ability to identify labor, materials, tools, and safety requirements for maintenance work orders, ensuring proper job hazard assessments and pre-task planning are completed. Your attention to detail helps maintain a safe and efficient working environment.
• Do you have a continuous improvement mindset? Through your analytical approach, you'll drive cost reductions in maintenance operations while improving responsiveness, minimizing downtime, and reducing interruptions. Your contributions optimize our maintenance processes and enhance operational excellence.
• Can you effectively manage inventories and backlogs? The team depends on your support for spare parts management, tracking consumption trends, managing work order backlogs, and communicating timely updates to supervisors and technicians. Your management skills ensure resources are available when needed and work is prioritized appropriately.
• Are you data-driven in your approach? In this role, you'll generate and analyze reports to understand the status of aging items, using these insights to drive improvements. Your ability to interpret data helps inform strategic maintenance decisions that impact our entire operation.

WHAT YOU BRING

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required
• 2-5 years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, and intranet/internet
• Experience with CMMS work order systems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to interface with co-workers, internal departments, service providers, and customers in a fast-paced environment
• Organized and detail-oriented approach to work
• Planning Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification or similar is desired
• Valid driver's license if driving is required for job duties

WHAT YOU’LL GET

At Watkins Wellness, we believe that everyone should 'Feel good. Live well'. We offer employees the opportunity to join a dynamic, growing industry leader with an outstanding and well-deserved reputation for leadership and commitment to our employees, customers, and community. Our employees are eligible to receive exceptional health and wellness benefits, paid time off, company bonuses, profit sharing, 401k match, education assistance, and much more. We are proud of the people we are and the products we make - products that make a difference to the health and well-being of others.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands and work environment described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit and work with computer equipment. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk; and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects.

The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Hiring Range: $22.75 - $35.75

Many factors affect actual compensation including but not limited to experience, education, skills, and geographic location

Company: Watkins Wellness

Watkins (the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we strive to employ the most qualified individuals for every position. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company’s policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all people involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

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