Preventative Maintenance Planner

Foremost Farms USA is one of the largest, leading dairy cooperatives in the United States and major dairy food and ingredients manufacturing business. We represent hundreds of Midwest dairy farmer members located in seven Midwest states, and we produce about 500 million pounds of cheese and 50 million pounds of butter in plants across our network every year. "We Bring Dairy to Life" in eight manufacturing plants across Wisconsin and Michigan and in our headquarters in Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin; and we're looking for employees who are innovative and aim for excellence in our wide variety of production, field and business roles. Join us!

JOB TITLE: Preventative Maintenance Planner
POSITION TYPE: Full time
CLASSIFICATION: Non-Exempt

Shift: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm

Position Overview

The Preventive Maintenance Planner oversees the accurate and timely planning, coordinating, and scheduling of all preventive maintenance activities at the facility to optimize manufacturing capabilities. They will contribute to the organization's success by managing equipment downtime and mitigating unplanned equipment failure.

Key Accountabilities

Analyze and plan activities to ensure optimized production runs:

• Manage equipment downtime and mitigate unplanned equipment failure by entering, reporting, and analyzing data.
• Plan and schedule all required maintenance actions to maximize manufacturing down days.
• Monitor all plant downtime statistics and reports to formulate and communicate appropriate preventive maintenance activities.
• Develop, review, and improve preventive and predictive maintenance tasks.
• Facilitate and administer all aspects of the Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to achieve maximum preventive maintenance efficiencies.

Oversee all parts room activities:

• Ensure and maintain an optimal level of spare parts inventory to support manufacturing and preventative maintenance goals.
• Oversee purchasing, receiving, record keeping, dispensing parts and materials for maintenance.

Develop and maintain vendor, supplier, and internal business partner relationships:

• Liaise and provide project and administrative support for plant personnel, accounting, audits, vendors, supplies and other operations as requested.
• Develop, review, and improve preventive and predictive maintenance tasks and suggest improvements.
• Collaborate with suppliers and vendors on parts availability, late deliveries, shortages on orders etc.
• Secure vendor quotes and ensure on time delivery of parts

This role adheres to the requirements of and supports the need for monitoring and/or verifying of control points and maintaining the related required documentation. For example, Critical Control Points(CCP), Preventive Controls(PC), Critical Quality Points(CQP), Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points(HACCP), and Safe Quality Food(SQF) plans. This is not an all-inclusive list.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Technical school certificate in CMMS or related field
2. Technical knowledge related to the job
3. 1-2 years of job-related experience

Preferred Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree
2. Technical knowledge related to the job
3. 3+ years of job-related experience

Key competencies

• Facilitate trusting relationships through effective communication, follow through on commitments, resolving conflicts and recognizing the good work of others.
• Regularly challenge the status quo by identifying opportunities for improvement, challenging the current state, and understanding that change and growth are ongoing.
• Demonstrate growth-oriented qualities by asking questions, being curious open-minded, agile, learning from failures and inspiring the same in others.
• Develop innovative solutions by bringing and supporting new ideas and thinking.
• Organize work with plans, goals and timelines, prioritization, and time management.

BENEFITS:

Because you and your family matter, Foremost Farms offers some of the best benefits in the area! Our comprehensive medical plan includes health, vision, dental, and prescription insurance. You can choose to enroll in a single or family plan with low monthly premiums and low annual deductibles ($250/$500). Other benefits include:

• 401(k) with a generous company contribution (100% match on up to 8% deferral)
• Paid time off, starting at 200 hours (25 days)
• 10 Paid holidays
• Paid parental leave (6 weeks paid at 100%)
• Flexible spending accounts - for medical and dependent care (childcare) expenses
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Referral program
• Advancement opportunities!
• Option: Get paid every day with daily pay

Don't meet every single requirement?At Foremost Farms we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled are encouraged to apply.

At Foremost Farms USA, we believe that employee diversity brings strength to our organization. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disabilities, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

Successful completion of pre-employment screening is required, which could include a drug test, background check, and other verifications or assessments to be sure you will be able to succeed in your position.

Are you ready to Be Foremost?

Apply today at www.foremostfarms.com