Maintenance Planner - Flavors Manufacturing

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In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

As the world leader in the Flavors industry, our customers are at the heart of our business – they come first. Our business model revolves around the partnerships we have with our customers and doing our utmost, at every step along the value chain, to create creative flavor solutions that surpass their expectations and help build their brands. Our manufacturing teams pull it all together for the win!

Reporting to the Maintenance Asset Manager in our East Hanover, NJ manufacturing facility, you will communicate maintenance plans, routine/preventive interventions, related schedules and resources, skills, and materials needed to maintain installations/equipment and avoid/minimize disruptions.

• Operational Excellence: Classify work such as emergency, safety, GMP, shutdown required, equipment reliability, engineering, and priority status. Administer work orders and requests such as Bill of Material, kitting instructions and vendor services (contract vibration service, rigging service, required license service). Calculate maintenance costs, including labor, material, and service provider costs. Report on maintenance activities/costs versus plan(s) and budgets. Provide documents for audits.

• Influence Collaboratively: Work with Production Planners to obtain schedules, identify equipment involved and plan for skills and materials. Review plans with Maintenance/Production to validate accuracy and feasibility. Help resolve production problems. Work observing relevant requirements (GMP, AIB, OSHA, HACCP, FDA, USDA, Food Safety and internal safety guidelines). Identify deviations and communicate in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures.

• Organize and Improve: Obtain information for crafts to perform work: drawings, vendor manuals, instructional materials, special procedures. Develop job plans and preventative maintenance procedures, determine parts, materials, crafts and skills, and engage resources to develop a safe work control plan, directly affecting our operational performance in our continuous improvement culture.

You?

• College Degree, Technical school course work, or equivalent maintenance scheduling work experience.
• 3+ years industrial maintenance planning, preventative maintenance scheduling experience or prior industrial mechanic experience.
• Knowledge of maintenance processes and proper use of work order systems
• Project planning and project management skills with exposure to reading standard machine and process drawings

Comprehensive medical plans and a high matching 401k

Givaudan Flavors Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/V/D

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.