Mechanical Specialist - Pactiv Evergreen - North America

Maintenance Planner| Raleigh | HIRING IMMEDIATELY

**Incentives:

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• Pay: competitive starting pay rate based from $39.40-$42.40

• Benefits: comprehensive benefits package (see further details below)

• Opportunity: career growth and promotions from within

• Referrals: Add extra money in your pocket by referring friends and family!

**Available Shifts:

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• Day Shift 7a-3p (flexible)

Benefits Overview:

• Eligible for benefits first of the month following hire date

• Multiple medical and prescription drug coverage options- Choice of an Employer-Funded Health Care Account (HCA) or Health Savings Account (HSA)

  • Integrated healthcare programs – telemedicine, chronic condition, weight management and msk health

• Multiple dental and vision plan coverage options

• Flexible spending accounts (FSA)- Healthcare, dependent care

• Company provided life and accidental death, short and long-term disability programs

• Supplemental life, accidental death, and disability buy-up options

• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance

• Employee well-being reward program

• Employee assistance program (EAP)

• Child and family care support program

• Educational assistance and tuition reimbursement program

• Employee discount program

• 401(K) with 6% company match (Eligible to participate from day one (1) with 100% vesting in all company provided money immediately)

Our Social Responsibility platform features a robust, employee-led Give Back program, which includes a matching gifts plan, community grants initiative, and our annual Company-wide Month of Action campaign. With each of these initiatives, our employees are empowered and equipped to give back to their communities and support the non-profits important to them and their families. Through our Give Back program, we own our commitment to Social Responsibility and live our purpose of Packaging a Better Future.

The Maintenance planner is the principal contact and liaison person between the maintenance department and the plant departments served by maintenance and ensures that the production areas or functions to which he/she is assigned receive prompt, efficient and quality service from the maintenance function and ensures the maintenance function is given the opportunity to provide this service.

• The planner receives all work orders from the requesting departments of the areas to which he/she is assigned, which are logged and passed to the appropriate maintenance for immediate attention.

• Reviews and screens each work order to see that is has been properly filled out:- Work scope clearly described

  • Check if the priority and target date are realistic and provide practical lead time
  • Asset numbers and other coding are complete and accurate
  • Discusses the details with the originating department as appropriate

• Ensures that work requested is needed. If need is questioned and not readily resolved with production or requesting personnel, refers the work order to the maintenance manager.

• Reviews with engineering those work orders requiring engineering design.

• Examines jobs to be done and determines best way to accomplish the work. Consults with requester or maintenance supervisor when necessary.

• Identifies and obtains (requisitions, orders, kits as appropriate and in keeping with procedures) determinable materials, entering material needs on the work order.

• Ensures the safety needs are given a top priority in work planning.

• Creates job plans, the number of mechanics and required man hours.

• Attends meetings with the production planning department and participates in the overall plant scheduling of the following week’s work, and negotiates for downtime “windows” during which preventive and corrective maintenance requiring downtime can be performed. Finalizes own schedules for which he/she is responsible, ensuring that the work scheduled balances with the manhours available so that a full day’s work is provided each person.

• Maintains backlog files of work orders waiting scheduling in accordance with their priority limits with an estimated completion date. Those unplanned, requiring engineering, waiting for materials, waiting for downtime, etc., are filed accordingly.

• Once a job is planned and estimated, prior to scheduling, verifies the availability of parts, materials and special tools required for its execution.

• Planner should have complete knowledge of each department’s PM workload in order to better schedule work orders in that area.

• Reviews the estimate of the current day’s schedule status and forecast of manpower availability on a daily basis.

• In the selection of jobs for scheduling, meeting the deadlines established by the requesting department and maintaining preventive maintenance schedules is essential. If any work orders cannot be scheduled within the prescribed priority lead time, the requesting department management and the requester are promptly notified so that appropriate action can be taken to get the work done in a satisfactory and timely manner.

• Recommends equipment to be included in preventive maintenance programs.

• Plans and schedules preventive maintenance work in coordination with production and maintenance supervisors.

• On the basis of firm work schedules, coordinates requisition of all predetermined parts, materials and special tools and ensures that equipment to be worked on will be available and ready. Arranges for any safety inspection, fire and standby watch.

• Issues approved schedules together with relevant work orders and other planning documents to area supervisors. Carefully reviews completed schedules and corresponding work orders submitted by the maintenance area supervisors and monitors work order progress for any reports necessary.

• Follows up completed work orders for accuracy. For any inaccurate or missing information on work orders, the work order is returned to the employee for all necessary corrections.

• In accordance with standard practice, provides the parts clerks with all documents for reporting or closeout.

• At all times, keeps advised of the status of standing work orders, of minor maintenance and of logbook jobs.

• Promotes the conservation of energy.

• Maintains close contact with the other planners to ensure coordination of complex multi-skill field and shop jobs.

• Maintains an open package of schedulable work orders, which require equipment to be shut down so that some or all of them can be performed in the event of an unscheduled shutdown of that equipment. These unscheduled shutdown lists are prepared, reviewed and updated weekly.

• Reviews with the maintenance area supervisors the actual labor expended versus estimated labor and material used for completed jobs, in order to determine corrective measures needed to improve the accuracy of estimating and improving methods of doing work of Preventative Maintenance.

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

• Keeps the maintenance manager properly informed on all abnormal or critical situations and seeks advice on matters outside of the planner’s knowledge or authority.

• Make recommendations for system improvement.

• Maintains necessary records / files and prepares / distributes meaningful and accurate control reports.

• Performs other tasks and special assignments as requested by the maintenance manager.

• Enters all data in the plant’s spreadsheet for energy consumption.

Salary info:

$40 - $41 / hr