Maintenance Planner

Why Join Coca-Cola North America?

It’s an exciting time to work in The Coca-Cola Company’s flagship market. We’re accelerating our momentum as the fastest-growing large consumer goods company in North America by putting people at the heart of our business and everything we do – whether we’re innovating to give consumers the drinks and packaging sizes they want or building our eCommerce capabilities.

As a Maintenance Planner, you will ensure that production areas receive prompt, efficient and quality service from the maintenance function with the goal of improvement in mean time between equipment failures.  Accurately define and estimate work requests.  Properly prepare and distribute meaningful control reports in an orderly manner. And meet the needs of customers, both internally and externally.

What You’ll Do for Us:

• Long-range & short-range maintenance work order planning. Regularly analyzes & maintains backlog work orders for planning and scheduling based on priority and requested completion date.
• Assures that work requested is valid and needed.
• Thoroughly understands how to fully utilize the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). We use SAP PM.
• Reviews with engineering those work orders requiring engineering design.
• Examines jobs to be done and determines scope and best way to accomplish the work.
• Obtains blueprints, drawings, instructional manuals, and special procedures, as needed, from files or other sources. Makes any additional sketches, diagrams, etc., necessary to clarify the intent of the work order.
• Ensures the safety needs are given a top priority in work planning and scheduling.
• Verifies the availability of parts, materials and special tools required for its execution. Identifies and obtains determinable materials.
• Develops a maintenance work schedule for the Line Support and Reliability Crews.
• Attends meetings with the production planning department and participates in the overall plant scheduling of the following week's work and negotiates for asset/line downtime "windows".
• Develops work order schedule, ensuring the work scheduled balances with the man-hours available so that a full day's work is provided each person.
• Recommends equipment to be included in preventive maintenance programs.
• Schedules preventive maintenance and other planned work in coordination with production and maintenance supervisors.  
• Promotes the conservation of energy.
• Develops a file of standard work orders (plans) for regularly recurring repair jobs, based on historical experience, to simplify the planning process.
• Reviews the actual labor expended versus estimated labor and material used for completed jobs. Job estimates are continually refined and thereby reflect improving accuracy and consistency.
• Assists maintenance and production management in periodically analyzing costs and, where necessary, recommends corrective action needed to reduce maintenance costs.
• Keeps the maintenance supervisor properly informed on all abnormal or critical situations and seeks advice on matters outside of the planner's knowledge or authority.
• Maintains necessary records and files and prepares and distributes meaningful and accurate control reports.
• Develops and maintains planner reference systems (library) including a file of Planned Job Packages for recurring jobs, plus labor and material libraries for each equipment center.
• Recommends additions to storeroom stock.

Qualifications & Requirements

• 3+ years maintenance experience as a qualified craftsperson on production lines.
• Mechanical/electrical background necessary and tech school background desired.
• Adequate craft knowledge to estimate labor hours and materials and to visualize the job to be performed.
• Able to read required drawings and publications. 
• Ability to visually identify defective parts.
• Must have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work efficiently under stressful situations.
• Good oral/written communication skills and possession of tact.
• Strong administrative skills to utilize CMMS and Microsoft Word & Excel.
• Working knowledge of SAP PM strongly desired.
• Good planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to understand what constitutes good instructions.
• Able to read blueprints and shop drawings.
• Sketching ability.
• Understanding of the proper use of work orders, priorities; scheduling, etc.
• Orientation and commitment to customer service.

What We Can Do For You

• Iconic Brand: Work on the most recognized brand in the world and be part of developing the brands next chapter. 
• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global marketing leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging digital platforms and marketing insights. 
• Learning Culture: Access to resources such as Coke University, LinkedIn Learning and management programs that give you the resources to continually develop your skills and knowledge.