Maintenance Planner

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination 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 a Maintenance Planner you will develop and communicate maintenance plans, including routine and preventive interventions, related schedules as well as resources, skills, and materials needed to maintain installations/equipment and avoid/minimize disruptions in production.

Core Responsibilities:

• Liaise with Production Planners to obtain production schedules, identify equipment involved and plan for adequate resources, skills and materials for interventions.
• Review plans with Maintenance/Production teams to validate accuracy and feasibility, and consolidate these into a master plan.
• Calculate overall maintenance costs, including labor, material and service provider costs. • Collect, organize and update all information required for the maintenance teams to perform interventions e.g. technical drawings, vendor manual, instructions materials, standard and special procedures, etc.
• Identify deviations and document/communicate them in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures.
• Classify, sort and distribute work requests as necessary depending on class, such as emergency, safety, GMP, shutdown required, reliability, engineering, as well as priority status. • Administer work orders and related requests such as Bill of Material, special kitting instructions and vendor services (i.e. contract vibration service, rigging service, required license service).
• Monitor and report on maintenance activities and related costs versus plan(s) and budgets.
• Maintain and update the status of work control and backlog for work request submissions.
• Maintain and provide all necessary documents for audit requirements.
• Support the resolution of key production problems.
• Participate in lean activities.
• Work in accordance with all relevant requirements including, but not limited to GMP, OSHA, HACCP, FDA, USDA and internal safety guidelines • May perform other tasks as assigned.

You?

Are you someone who wants to shape your world? Then come join us - and impact your world.

Your professional profile includes:

• High School diploma or GED certificate.
• Overall work experience of 4 to 6 years with mechanical/electrical background in food or chemical related manufacturing environment.
• Preventive maintenance scheduling experience preferred.

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of craft and skill requirements to estimate labor hours, material requirement and skills needed to complete a job.
• Knowledge of maintenance, planning and scheduling and storeroom processes.
• Good computer literacy and knowledge of work order system (SAP).
• Demonstrated project planning and project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to read standard machine and process drawings, write and provide simple and accurate instructions.
• EMMS experience preferred.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision plan.
• Annual bonus.
• High matching 401k

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.