Maintenance Planner

About Florikan

Florikan ESA LLC is an award-winning Agri-tech business located in Sarasota, FL, with production operations in Bowling Green, FL. Florikan is part of the Profile Products family of businesses.  Florikan is dedicated to evolving plant nutrition through advanced fertilizer technologies by manufacturing, blending, and distributing controlled release fertilizer. Florikan serves the major markets of professional ornamental horticulture, landscape & turf, and specialty agriculture in North America and select export markets.

Job Summary

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling and coordination of proactive maintenance work performed at the site with the objective of optimizing total maintenance cost and effort by maximizing maintenance work force productivity and increasing quality work performed to expectations. Mobile equipment management including proper rental levels and third-party PM scheduling.

Education and Experience:

• Familiar with industrial manufacturing environment
• Electrical/mechanical aptitude
• Proficiency with computers, maintenance systems, and applications including Microsoft Office
• Excellent verbal communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Ability to build and maintain positive, professional relationships
• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent
• Preferred:
  1. Associate degree required in a technical field with 1-3 years of maintenance scheduling/planning experience
  2. 5 – 10 years as a machine repair technician 
     • Or equivalent combination of both 
  3. E-Maint CMMS.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• • Evaluates non-emergency work requests, develops scope of work, and inspects job location to determine job requirements.
  • Estimates labor hours, skill sets, parts, materials, equipment, and special tools required to complete proactive jobs in a safe and efficient manner.
  • Gathers relevant technical documentation such as drawings, schematics, specifications, spare parts lists from equipment histories, OEM manuals, and the Knowledgebase system. Verifies part availability before scheduling the job. Arranges special tools and auxiliary equipment as needed.
  • Maintains an organized and prioritized work order backlog to determine the next highest priority jobs to be planned next and maintains the Ready Backlog at or above 80%.
  • Employs the continuous improvement process to update Job Plans for accuracy and effectiveness.
  • Conducts weekly planning & scheduling meetings with Production to determine work order priorities, communicate work order status, and alter planned maintenance activities if necessary.
  • Creates a Weekly Technician Schedule that includes priority planned jobs and preventative maintenance tasks that utilize 100% of the available technician labor hours.
  • Improves work order planning and scheduling effectiveness through the review process and use of the maintenance metrics.
  • Maintains records and files essential to meaningful analysis and reporting of maintenance-related matters.
  • Trains site employees on CMMS and ensures that it is working with integrity and is being utilized. 
  • Ability to fill in wherever management sees a need, in maintenance roles for short-term coverage.

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Required Skills/Abilities:

• The Maintenance Planner needs to have the desire to develop leadership attributes. 
• Experience in job plan development, job scheduling, and work execution.
• Mechanical mindset.
• May be required to travel.

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• Required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, climb or crawl.
• Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• May require more than 40 hours per week to perform the essential duties of the position.
• The individual possesses fine hand manipulation (keyboarding) skills.

Work Environment: 

• This Maintenance Planner is required to work both in a manufacturing and office setting.
• Must be able to adapt to the noise level of a manufacturing setting, which is usually moderate to heavy.  
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as a computer, phone, printer/scanner, and filing cabinets.  
• The temperature will vary from hot to cold, depending on the weather.