Maintenance Planning Engineer (Ciudad Juárez)

OVERVIEW

The Maintenance Planner : Responsible for developing the maintenance program, strategy schedules, and procedures necessary for equipment maintenance.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

• Professional Engineering Degree in Industrial Maintenance Technology or relevant field.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in the industrial environment.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Good knowledge of factory maintenance operation and building maintenance.
• Experience with GTI, Lean manufacturing, TPM, Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge of total productive maintenance and lean production.
• Criticality analysis, FMEA, sustainability plans and risk analysis.
• Experience with CMMS (IT Guide, MP, SAP, Maximo).
• Strong leadership and responsibility.
• Good communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge of equipment reliability.
• Knowledge of various craft skills: electrical, mechanical, controls, construction mechanisms.
• Skills in training and presenting to groups.
• Strong aptitude with computers and technology.
• Knowledge of both spoken and written English (80%).

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate upstream in the New Equipment Introduction process to influence its development (Design, Quality, ease of maintenance, accessibility, respect for BRP standard parts, documentation).
• Analyze and propose the necessary spare parts for the equipment (quantity, min/max, delays, etc.).
• Discuss with OEM, challenge parts wear, identify equivalences.
• Develop and review different types of equipment maintenance (preventive, predictive, route, planned corrective).
• Review maintenance management program to improve plant and facility operations.
• Maintain work order system and report any repetitive issues.
• Review repetitive issues with supervisors for resolution or mitigation.
• Adjust preventive programs accordingly.
• Work with Industrial Engineering, Logistics and Operations for highest risk teams and monitor plans.
• Provide technical support to maintenance teams on concepts, recognized and effective work methods.
• Install procedures to follow ISO standards.
• Create equipment and documentation files in CMMS: assign asset number, identification photo, prepare label, link documents, analyze spare parts, add to catalog, ensure LOTO sheet linked.
• Monitor and analyze status of installed equipment during its useful life via CMMS (obsolescence and sustainability).
• Organize and propose actions to improve asset profitability through performance indicators.
• Negotiate, order and schedule planned predictive, preventive and corrective actions with production/maintenance/subcontracting.
• Receive and analyze predictive reports on monitored equipment.
• Develop/recommend tools and methods to improve equipment reliability.
• Train maintenance staff using maintenance software and create video tutorial and e-learning.
• Collect data, present and explain maintenance department KPIs and reports (delays, schedule compliance, costs, downtime summary, cause and effect paretos, criticality status, MTBF, etc.) and suggest action plans.
• Develop and explain balance sheet scorecard to supervisors.
• Participate in compliance with the QMS (Quality Management System) relative to ISO standards.
• Comply with safety rules determined according to function.
• Complete planned training related to Quality and Training on time.
• Identify and report quality and compliance issues and support corrective actions.