The posting
JOB SUMMARY
The Sr. Planner provides maintenance planning and analysis. He/She will provide support and leadership to Planner to ensure the complete work assignments.
SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
· Works closely with the maintenance engineer in realizing maintenance improvement.
· In the absence of a general supervisor, will assist the supervisor in performing the scheduling duties.
· Educates other employees about reliability and maintenance engineering. Identifies the critical processes and understands how they affect throughput, quality, environmental, and safety compliance.
· Creates and modifies daily, weekly, monthly schedules and maintenance tactics using SAP.
· Develops, recommends, and implements strategies for improving the reliability of the processes.
· Performs reliability reviews of each modification or design change.
· Performs life cycle cost analyses on all engineering design changes.
· Evaluates the cost/benefit of all new diagnostic technologies.
· Reviews required maintenance performance reports.
· Communicates the key maintenance performance indicators as well as the company’s KPIs.
· Works closely with the planner in performing RCFA and maintenance improvement.
· Generates delay analysis reports and performs Pareto analysis on results
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
· Ensures that all department work performed is planned in a safe manner and that all planned work meets or exceeds MSHA standards.
· Ensures that the daily and weekly maintenance schedule and backlog is communicated and coordinated with all those affected.
· Conducting the weekly operations and maintenance planning meeting.
· Assists in the development of long and short range maintenance management schedules and budgets.
· Ensures compliance and implementation of short and long-range maintenance management schedules and budgets.
· Generates required maintenance performance reports.
· Communicates the key maintenance performance indicators as well as the company’s KPIs.
· Orders all necessary parts and materials to complete the work plan.
· Ensures that all necessary parts are pre-positioned and/or delivered to the job site prior to commencement of the job.
· Generates a work plan, if necessary.
· Is the primary department interface with non-purchasing related issues with equipment manufacturers, vendors and contractors?
· Prepares forecasts for future maintenance activities on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
· Works very closely with purchasing to create purchase orders and ensure that the “right part is on site at the right time.”
· Assist in the development of long-range maintenance management schedules and budgets.
EDUCATION
Required: High School Diploma or GED (General Education Degree).
Preferred: Degree in Mining Engineering or similar degree is desired but not required.



