Facilities Planner jobs in Altoona, PA

Vitro Automotive Glass produces advanced glass products for the world's most well-known automotive manufacturers. We work collaboratively with our customers to ensure that our glass provides the safety, comfort, efficiency required for today's modern vehicles. Vitro Automotive Glass operates glass manufacturing plants, fabrication facilities and distribution centers worldwide that are solely focused on the production of automotive glass. As the needs of the automotive industry rapidly evolve, Vitro stays ahead of the curve to help automakers, distributors and installers meet the ever-changing standards for safety, efficiency and sustainability.

We have an exciting opportunity at our Crestline (Mansfield), Ohio plant for a Maintenance Planner / Supervisor / Engineer. The Planner will develop the scheduled maintenance programs and processes for the production facility to minimize the impact on production. This position is responsible for all decisions of the facility's preventative maintenance program, including but not limited to decisions involving budget spending and staffing for PMs and may assist with supervision of craft type personnel for the installation phase of projects and PMs. The Maintenance Planner, reports to the Manager of Engineering & Maintenance.

Other responsibilities include:

Responsible for establishing, maintaining and improving the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling business flow process, ensuring key performance indicators (KPIs) are captured and reported for equipment reliability. Incumbent will continually improve planning, scheduling, purchasing, stores, data management and job reporting systems to increase planning effectiveness and efficiency.
• Plan the full extent of maintenance work needed to conduct the relevant repair/preventive, predictive/design-out activities on plant and equipment.
• Plan all labor needs for scheduled PM work to be completed in a safe and timely manner.
• Comply with all safety standards and rules set forth by the company and ensure all workers do the same
• Insure plant and equipment run properly when it is required for operation, and to correct equipment and machines when necessary to keep them running for the life of the organization
• Close work orders daily and maintain files of completed work orders for a 2 year period
• Schedule and plan maintenance work into a maintenance plan
• Create a daily maintenance plan for display to all departments
• Compile KPI's and daily maintenance plan into a daily maintenance report
• Use maintenance plan to create a weekly maintenance plan
• Compile KPI's and weekly maintenance plan into a weekly maintenance report
• Keep a master schedule of all required maintenance needed on yearly basis
• Schedule maintenance work in conjunction with production planning
• Purchase parts, equipment, services and documentation needed ahead of scheduled planned work
• Write applicable maintenance procedures that promote defect-free work quality
• Maintain and keep updated preventative maintenance work orders and procedures in work order system
• Maintain list of all equipment and ensure all preventative maintenance needed for equipment is entered into work order system
• Accurately track equipment maintenance history and job records, and technical information on processes, plant and equipment in work order system
• Apply good stores management practices and parts management to ensure parts and equipment retain full reliability
• Participate in projects and PMs as needed

• Bachelor's Degree in Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Management Science, Logistics, or Business Administration or related fields preferred or equivalent experience
• Prefer exposure/experience in any/all - Electrical, Instrumentation, or Mechanical; operations management; management logistics, etc.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in maintenance planning in a manufacturing environment
• Solid appreciation of risk management strategy and practices related to plant and equipment
• Sound and correct understanding of equipment reliability concepts; solid appreciation of quality management methods and practices related to plant and equipment reliability
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Computerized Maintenance System (CMM)
• Knowledge with computerized drafting skills preferred.
• Individual must be able to work productively in a team environment
• Individual must be self-motivated and be able to work with minimal supervision
• Must possess strong time management skills