Maintenance Planner

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 facility located in Lock Haven, PA.  This position will be responsible for improving work force productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labor, parts and material, tools and equipment, permissions, specialized documentation, and equipment access. The planner is responsible for the planning and scheduling of all maintenance work performed in the area in which he/she is assigned. He/she maintains liaison and coordination between the production and maintenance organizations; maintains appropriate records and files to permit meaningful analysis and reporting of results of work completed.

Job Responsibilities:

• Principal contact person between maintenance department and all other plant departments.
• Responsible for long-range as well as short-range planning.
• Assists the maintenance supervisor in the implementation of (CMMS) computerized maintenance management system.
• Maintains all data within (CMMS) and updates as needed.
• Receives all work orders and screens to see that they have been properly written.
• Assures that work requested is needed.
• Examines all work requests and determines job scope and best way to accomplish the work.
• Once a job scope has been planned, acquires all parts, materials, and special tools needed to complete job.
• Coordinates all planned work orders with maintenance supervisors and production supervisors.
• Attends production meetings to coordinate work order backlog with production supervisors so that all work requiring downtime can be scheduled on a planned conditioning.
• Schedules a full days work for all daily work schedules and planned outages.
• Maintains a manageable work order backlog and completes all work orders in (CMMS) in a timely manner.
• Assists in development and implementation of Preventative Maintenance routes and Predictive Maintenance, to include Lubrication routes.
• Maintains a list of planned work orders requiring downtime so that some or all can be performed in the event of unscheduled downtime.
• 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.
• Performs other tasks and assignments as requested by the maintenance supervisor.
• Develops and maintains a planner reference file or library for all equipment in assigned area.
• Orders all needed items necessary to perform job function and for completion of all work orders.
• Prioritizes all work orders with safety a top priority.
• First Quality team members must follow all First Quality environmental, health and safety requirements as well as applicable federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Five+ years industrial maintenance experience required.
• Familiarity with computerized maintenance management systems such as MP2, SAP, or EAM.

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!