Maintenance Planner

Business Unit Overview Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food . Location Description Michael Foods, Inc. located in Lenox, Iowa and often called the "Pearl of the Prairie" is where you can find small town living, focused on family and friends, with big city amenities not far from reach in Des Moines, Omaha, and Kansas City. Located in southwest Iowa, Taylor county, with a population of around 1400, the Lenox area reaches far beyond the city limits with beautiful and productive fields of corn, beans, and other croplands. Lenox holds an amazing four day Rodeo every July and is home to a beautiful 36-9 hole golf course, several fishing and boating lakes, great area hunting, a beautiful city park with swimming pool, and many picnic parks. The MFI location in Lenox produces primarily pre-cooked egg patties. With its friendly atmosphere, safe environment, and progressive spirit, Lenox is a great place to live, work, play, and raise a family.

We are looking for an Experienced Maintenance Planner with a high level of mechanical compentency and experience with SAP. This role is M-F.   SUMMARY :  The Maintenance Planner provides support to both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing maintenance process executional excellence and asset health improvement efforts. The Maintenance Planner will ensure results while partnering with the MFI ARM team, plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. The Maintenance Planner will actively participate on the maintenance workflow process team and will ensure that work orders for plant assets are in the CMMS backlog and are being planned and scheduled effectively. The Maintenance Planner will work with Supervisors, Leads, & Technicians to help ensure that scheduled work orders are properly executed, followed through, documented and the value of the job is captured and reported. They will promote, execute, mentor, and coach excellence in planning & scheduling preventive and corrective maintenance practices. The Maintenance Planner will monitor and report WR/WO status, including backlog, to plant leadership weekly and be accountable for KPI’s using CMMS data. They will be a competent CMMS “user” responsible for data integrity. The Maintenance Planner will become a resource to the plant who constantly assists in improving the operating condition of equipment and improving the effectiveness and performance of the maintenance team. This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce Safety as a Core Value. Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability. This role must be available for scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.

Actively participate as a maintenance team support services member to ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost, are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Engage and develop the asset care team members to deliver expected levels of reliability. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture. Plan, schedule, and champion Precision Maintenance ® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met Identify, develop, and implement maintenance process and performance improvement projects Develops and implements PM and job plans for critical equipment work with the maintenance, reliability, operations, &