Maintenance Planner

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. 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.

Guided 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®.

We are seeking a Maintenance Planner for our First Quality Tissue SE, LLC located in Anderson, SC.  The primary role of the Maintenance Planner is to improve 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. The Planner is also responsible for the planning of all maintenance work performed in the area in which he/she is assigned. He/She maintains liaison and coordination between the production and maintenance organizations, maintains appropriate records and files to permit meaningful analysis and reporting of results of work completed.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Promote an action-oriented safety culture embracing safety as a core value, instilling and exemplifying a safety mindset for all team members resulting in an incident free workplace.

• Principal contact person between maintenance department and all other plant departments.

• Responsible for long-range as well as short-range planning.

• Assists the Maintenance Manager in the implementation of (RWS) Reliability Work System.

• Maintains all data within (CMMS) and updates as needed.

• Receives all approved work orders and screens them to see that they have been properly written and updates them accordingly if they are not.

• Examines all approved work orders and determines job scope and best way to accomplish the work.

• Once a job scope has been planned, acquires all parts, materials, and special tools needed to complete job.

• Writes Service Requisitions and receives Purchase Orders Line items for External Contractors performing work on the Paper Machines during routine and outage operations.

• Coordinates all planned work orders with Maintenance Supervisors and Operations Maintenance Coordinator (OMC).

• Maintains a manageable work order backlog and facilitates a weekly planning meeting in which priorities are set by the operations team.

• Attends production meetings to coordinate work order backlog with OMC so that all work requiring downtime can be scheduled on a planned conditioning.

• Assists in development and implementation of Preventative Maintenance routes and Predictive Maintenance, to include Mechanical, Electrical, Vibration, and Lubrication routes.

• Maintains Job Packets of planned work orders requiring downtime so that some or all can be performed in the event of unscheduled downtime.

• Coordinates Machine Outages by developing the Outage Schedules in Microsoft Project and facilitates the Weekly Outage T-Meetings as well as the Outage Update Meeting.

• Assists maintenance and production management in periodically analyzing costs and, where necessary, recommends corrective action needed to reduce maintenance costs.

• Keeps the maintenance supervisor properly informed on all abnormal or critical situations.

• Performs other tasks and assignments as requested by the Maintenance Manager.

• Develops and maintains a planner reference file or library for all equipment in assigned area

• Provide on-call coverage for the Maintenance Team per the annual on-call schedule.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• High School Diploma/GED required. Technical degree preferred.

• Minimum of three years’ mechanical and/or electrical maintenance planning experience (preferably in and industrial environment and in paper production with skills in CMMS (EAM), precision maintenance, hydraulics, pneumatics, and basic mechanics, contractor management).

• Microsoft Office Suite and Microsoft Project Experience required.

• Experience in a lean manufacturing environment preferred.

• SAP knowledge preferred.

• Possess a fundamental understanding of the planning and scheduling of maintenance work functions as they apply to predictive, preventive, precision, proactive, and planned maintenance.

• Advanced comprehension of the equipment mechanical/electrical functions.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong problem-solving skills in aiding the efficiency of the operation.

• Possess excellent time management and organizational skills. 

What We Offer You

We 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:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities

• Paid time off (three-week minimum)

• Medical, dental and vision starting day one

• 401(k) with employer match

• Paid parental leave

• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)

• Bundle of joy benefit (years’ worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)

• Tuition assistance

• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums

...and more!