Maintenance Planner jobs in Huntington, NY

Title : Maintenance Planner Scheduler

Location : Farmingdale, NY (Long Island)

Hire Type : Direct Hire

Target Salary Range : $95,000 - $110,000 / year

Overview :

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Job Summary :

Responsible for sustaining a proactive maintenance environment within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment that ensures the maintenance systems and processes achieve workforce productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labor, parts and material, tools and equipment, permissions, specialized documentation and equipment access.

Job Duties :

• Plan, prioritize and schedule maintenance work orders including material needs, safety information, appropriate maintenance history and critical information to complete jobs safely and efficiently.
• Field work as required to ensure the quality of maintenance work.
• Process material requests and expedite as necessary to ensure that parts are on hand when needed.
• Work with Operations and Maintenance Supervision to prioritize and schedule maintenance work.
• Work with Metrology group to prioritize and schedule calibrations.
• Provide support for maintenance planned machine shutdowns including critical path charts.
• Provide support for maintenance emergency unplanned work orders.
• Evolve reliability work from reactionary to a proactive condition-based maintenance process including the creation of new preventative maintenance plans in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Ensure that maintenance work is carried out at a minimum cost in labor, materials and lost production.
• Maintain harmonious relations with employees by administering contract provisions and company policies.
• Create and maintain functional locations, equipment and bill of materials in the CMMS (SAP) system.
• Administer requisitions and service entries in CMMS (SAP)
• Responsible for the operation of the CMMS (SAP) system and generating reports and KPI’s to support continuous improvement.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or other relevant engineering degree and 5 years’ experience in maintenance or engineering in a Pharmaceutical facility preferred.
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of industrial equipment and components such as pumps, motors, bearings, refrigeration systems, compressors, piping systems, etc.
• Strong computer skills; prefer SAP, Microsoft applications and CMMS (SAP) systems.
• Strong administrative and organization skills.
• Excellent leadership, management, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills interpersonal, written, and verbal
• Ability to work beyond normal work schedule as necessary to fulfill position responsibilities.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.