Maintenance Planner

Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority

Ponca City, OK

Pay: $33-$38/hr

Shift: Full time

**GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION**

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Under the General Direction of the maintenance manager, The maintenance planner works with maintenance supervision, operations departments, staff, engineering, contractors and OEMs to ensure effective maintenance is planned, performed and documented. The maintenance planner supports plant goals by: supporting safe and event-free work, coordinating and leading OMPA and contractor skilled-craft workers, improving equipment reliability, and supporting the Power Production department’s objectives of safe, reliable and cost-effective power generation. This is accomplished by preparing detailed job plans, coordinating schedules, building and improving preventive and corrective maintenance work, ensuring CMMS data integrity, ordering and managing spare parts inventories. This maintenance planner position will have an instrument and electrical focus.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

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• Perform all duties in a safe and collaborative manner and immediately report any potentially dangerous conditions or other safety concerns to the supervisor. A maintenance planner must come up with solutions and job plan solutions for safety related items, and should prioritize safety items as urgent. This duty is performed daily, about 10% of the time.
• Plan and schedule corrective, preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance activities utilizing CMMS, while coordinating daily with Operation and maintenance supervision. This duty is performed weekly, about 10% of the time.
• Prepare daily planned maintenance job packages, required task lists and spare parts kits. This duty is performed weekly, about 5% of the time.
• Perform work order tracking, reporting and maintenance of equipment history files in CMMS. This duty is performed weekly, about 5% of the time.
• Control and optimize maintenance spare parts ordering, stocking, issuing and inventorying. This duty is performed weekly, about 5% of the time.
• Work with OEMs, plant engineering, maintenance associates and equipment manuals to insure proper maintenance tasks and spare parts are defined and entered into the CMMS system. This duty is performed weekly, about 5% of the time.
• Support root cause problem solving and analysis of maintenance costs, activities and trends. This duty is performed monthly, about 5% of the time.
• Support development of new, and refinement of existing preventive maintenance tasks, procedures, and schedules. This duty is performed weekly, about 5% of the time.
• Lead supplier relations for vendor managed spare parts. This duty is performed monthly, about 10% of the time. Expert user of Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) supporting maintenance associate training and use of the system. This duty is performed weekly, about 10% of the time.
• Promote and comply with good safety practices and habits, including but not limited to, use of all PPE. This duty is performed daily, about 5% of the time.
• Perform related and/or additional duties as required. This duty is performed monthly, about 10% of the time.
• This is a safety sensitive position, a job or position where the employee holding this position has the responsibility for his/her own safety and the safety of other persons. An employee has to be with clear mind and diligent while occupying such positions. This duty is performed daily, about 5% of the time.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

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To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

**EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE**

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Knowledge of a specialized field (however acquired), such as power plants, instrumentation, electrical equipment, controls systems (DCS, PLC), VFDs, controls logic, project management, outage coordination, etc. Equivalent of four years in high school, plus night, trade extension, or correspondence school specialized training, equal to two years of college, plus 3 years related experience and/or training, , or equivalent combination of education and experience. Electrical and instrument equipment experience as well as power plant experience are preferred. CMMS understanding and experience is preferred.

**COMMUNICATION SKILLS**

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Ability to read a words and recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers; Ability to write and speak simple sentences as a means for basic communication. Ability to read and understand simple instructions, short correspondence, notes, letters and memos; Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; Ability to write rout