Technical Planner - Casting

Primary Purpose

The Maintenance Technical Planner will leverage Reliability based processes to develop, communicate, and maintain a workable plan that balances work requirements and site priorities across production needs and resource constraints. This includes and is not limited to predictive, proactive, planned work and the management of the tools and applications.

Specific Key accountabilities

• Core Values: Emulate and lead by the Constellium Core Values of Safety, Respect, Trust, Transparency and Collaboration to safely achieve continuous improvement in profitability by meeting our customers’ needs
• Safety: Work to continually improve safety performance by reducing, and where possible, eliminating risk with the ultimate goal of an injury free work environment
• Quality: Support efforts to meet and exceed customer quality requirements, to deliver on-time, safely and efficiently
• Manufacturing Excellence: Support consistent and sustainable performance through standardization and measurable results (KPIs)
• Facilitate regular meetings with operations and maintenance teams
• Create, manage, develop and publish regular work plans for operations and maintenance activities
• Develop Work Instructions and Preventative and Predictive maintenance tasks
• Generate internal and external resource forecasts for outages and routine work
• Occasional work outside of normal business hours will be expected to support emergency conditions
• Ensure Ready-to-Work backlog is current, each day, and all jobs are valid and up-to-date
• Ensure preventative and predictive maintenance is planned and tracked upon completion
• Functionally supplement the Maintenance Scheduler Role as needed
• Accommodate changing production priorities or available resources to affect the best outcome with the available resources
• Report on status of progress and expedite procurement requests as needed
• Coordinate with Inventory Analyst the storage, issue, and inventory of repair parts
• Work hand in hand with Engineering roles to plan and expedite repairs from technical drawings
• Assist contractor coordination and project controls activities
• Interface with document control functions and manage transmittals

• Enable, on a daily basis, the safe and efficient execution of routine maintenance work by detailed job preparation
• Develop standard job plans for repetitive maintenance tasks and thereby foster standardization
• Manage all improvements in the work execution process and clearly communicate and implement
• Determine material requirements and kitting for planned jobs
• Establish reasonable labor estimates on jobs with durations provided to the scheduler
• Acquire necessary drawings for jobs
• Arrange for special tools and equipment
• Follow management of change process if new materials/processes are required for job completion
• Managing the work notification and work order backlog by:
• * Returning incomplete or poorly defined work notifications
• * Reviewing backlog and planning list
• * Grouping notifications together that can be planned and worked as a single order
• Coordinate with production/scheduler to ensure job plans meet the timing requirements of production
• Build the job plan library, with accurate plans for high-frequency jobs
• Continually update job plans to ensure necessary changes or improvements are incorporated, and efficiencies are captured. Audit all systems within assigned process area.
• Create “ready to schedule” job packages for the Scheduler
• Maintain equipment history in CMMS
• Participate in PM Optimization and FMEA activities
• Spare Parts Criticality Analysis & Support
• Assist in the development of Reliability Program
• Develop predictive and precision maintenance activities with the Reliability Engineer
• Maintain action registers for driving improvements on machine centers managed/assigned
• Participate in Lessons Learned for each completed outage. Prefer the day after completion.

Leadership competencies, technical skills requirement

Technical Skills and Experience:

• 2 or 4 year degree in business administration/management or maintenance OR
• 5 Years’ comparable industrial maintenance experience with proven track record
• Strong interpersonal skill, and the ability to communicate effectively in verbal or written formats
• Strong time management Skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Project coordination experience, scheduling, planning and communications
• Microsoft Project, Excel, Word proficiency required – HIGHLY SKILLED
• Experience with SAP is a plus
• Computerized Maintenance Management Systems Experience required
• Exceptional team working skills

Knowledge & skills:

• Ability to work in a constrained environment (deadlines, costs, able to work under pressure) and ability to drive multiple projects in parallel, which interfere with each other
• Excellent decision making skills – Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of maintenance processes and proper use of the work order system, planning and scheduling
• Ability to be flexible and to adjust priorities as necessary to meet changing conditions
• Ability to drive results – Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances
• Work Process Optimization – Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
• Team oriented – Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Ability to hold self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Excellent organizational and planning skills – Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals

Excellent leadership skills – Provides direction, delegates and removes obstacles to get work done