Maintenance Planner - Paper Machine

Maintenance Planner - Paper Machine

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 location in Lock Haven, PA. 

Job Function:

Responsible for providing improvements in maintenance work force effectiveness by eliminating potential for delays and obstacles through proper planning, being the facilitator for the maintenance planning meetings on a weekly basis, plans, and maintains documentation for repairs, teams with operations and maintenance supervisors on identification, coordination, and execution of maintenance work.

Job Responsibilities:

• Follow the Maintenance Work Process: identify and screen work orders, confirm they are accurate and complete, and give feedback to Operations and Maintenance on finished work.

• Inspect the job site to confirm scope, trade, staffing, and whether the work can be done on the run or needs a shutdown. Challenge priority when equipment status or production needs require it.

• Build planned work packages for new and repeat jobs. Include parts, procedures, drawings, risk assessments, tooling, lockout and confined-space steps, history, labor estimates, and any safety or environmental concerns. Flag conflicts such as crane, lift, or overlapping work.

• Keep preventive, predictive, basic-care, compliance, and safety routes ready to schedule. Review overdue PM and outage-prep backlog, publish a weekly forecast of work ready for the next week, and tell Operations and Maintenance when status changes.

• Facilitate the weekly planning meeting and join non-outage scheduling meetings. Decide when indirect work procedures apply, and remove duplicate or unnecessary work orders.

• Order and stage materials. Contact vendors, write purchase requisitions with the right description, cost center, and vendor, and use pick tickets so storeroom parts reach the job before work starts. Track deliveries, move orders from Awaiting Parts to Ready to Schedule, and return unused parts.

• Keep critical spares available, recommend new stock items, and help locate parts when needed.

• Coordinate contractors and service representatives: define scope, obtain competitive bids when required, complete contractor training and job documentation.

• Maintain the CMMS: enter history on completed work, audit and close work orders, and add or update equipment records for installs, demolitions, and removals. Train others on the system.

• Spot repeat failures from work history and tell Maintenance Supervisors and Operations. Lead or support root-cause investigations and preserve physical evidence.

• Support lubrication planning, shop housekeeping, and the budgeting process for equipment and facility repairs. Keep the Maintenance Manager informed of conditions that need maintenance.

• Cover for the supervisor when absent, including off-shift, weekend, and on-call rotation, and fill in as Outage Coordinator for the assigned asset.

• Model First Quality safety and handbook standards and the FQT Rules of Engagement, and support supervisors, engineers, and other teams as needed.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• About five years in a maintenance role, preferably in the papermaking process.

• Working knowledge of the site CMMS, or equivalent experience with another system.

• Strong organization and time management, plus intermediate computer and logic skills.

• Above-average troubleshooting and an analytical approach.

• Leadership shown through accountability, credibility, and trust, with clear interpersonal communication.

• Working knowledge of manufacturing safety regulations.

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 (year's 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!

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations.  As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.