Job Title: Planner/Scheduler
Department: Operations
Reports To: Site Director
FLSA Status: Exempt
Summary: The Planner’s main responsibility is to facilitate and maintain the problem solving process for the Caravan Facility Management team for maintenance and sanitation.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Develop Maintenance and Sanitation weekend & shutdown plans for the team.
- Develop and maintain parts kitting for maintenance and engineering projects.
- Review and analyze equipment breakdown failures by truly diagnosing the actual cause of the failure and assisting in corrective actions.
- Prioritize improvement plans based on resources and anticipated gains by utilizing equipment breakdown and failure history, maintenance FMEA’s, and interacting with trades.
- Coordinate and organize maintenance and engineering improvements plans and projects.
- Analyze and maintain PM effectiveness by reviewing PM data, adjusting and creating PM’s.
- Champion and maintain the maintenance FMEA for the team.
- Interface between OEM’s and customer on maintenance related issues.
- Assist CFM team and customer in identifying critical equipment.
- Audit the Planned Maintenance system.
- Facilitate planned maintenance system.
- Facilitate planned maintenance (PM) planning meeting with Maintenance Manager.
- Prepare, organize data needed for PM planning meeting.
- Audit the planned maintenance system.
- Responsible for attending specific facility meetings: Global Facilities meeting report out (daily), PM Planning and analysis meeting (weekly), Weekend Planning meeting (weekly), and Maintenance FMEA (monthly).
Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Listening Skills – Ability to listen carefully and thoroughly customer to understand what their needs are.
- Problem Solving - Gathers and analyzes information skillfully
- Strategic Thinking – Develops strategies to achieve organizational and department goals. Adapts strategy to changing conditions.
- Communication - Oral and written communication must be clearly and informatively. The ability to manage positive or negative situations with clear and concise message
- Teamwork – Knowing how to manage people in order to achieve a set goal is important; good communication between all team members.
- Multitasking – Ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
- Time Management Skills: Having great time management skills is essential to meet all the needs and priorities of filling positions. Speed, patience and reliability.
- Business Acumen - Understands business implications of decisions
- Integrity- Upholds organizational values.
- Organizational Support - Follows company policies and procedures.
- Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures.
- Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year College or university; or Associates, or technical training or certificate.
- 5– 10 years related experience in budget, project management, and facilities management;
- Or equivalent combination of expertise and knowledge of specific industry and job-related experience.
- Strong understanding of managing maintenance.
- Excellent communication skills, including motivational techniques, presentations, conflict resolution experience, relationship building, coaching, and confidentiality.
- Ability to work primarily days, but flexible to evenings and weekends if the need should arise (to assist in supporting a 24/7 operation).
- Ability to use computer/maintenance programs and general applications (word, excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Work Environment. This work environment characteristic described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to high, precarious places and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Physical Demands While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Language Skills
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.