Maintenance Planner

Carolina Ingredients Inc.

Rock Hill, SC

Pay: $35-$38/hr

Shift: Full time

Carolina Ingredients, located in Rock Hill, SC, is a purveyor of the world’s finest food ingredients. Carolina Ingredients takes pride in every aspect of their business, from their top-quality commercial food ingredients and superior seasoning blends to their outstanding customer service.

Carolina Ingredients is currently looking for a **Maintenance Planner** in the **food manufacturing/distribution industry** who is passionate about creating value, building partnerships, finding innovative solutions and who has a “get it done right” attitude.

Job Summary:

Responsible for organizing, scheduling, and coordinating preventive and corrective maintenance activities, ensuring equipment reliability, minimizing downtime, and optimizing resources such as labor, materials, and parts.

Ability to troubleshoot, repair and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment used in production and packaging, welding and fabrication projects, regularly inspecting equipment, and spare parts inventory. Work on all requests for the various types of maintenance work assigned. Understanding the adherence to the company health and safety, and various policies and food procedures.

**Job Duties:**

**Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:**

· Coordinate with Maintenance Manager to maintain smooth operations on daily basis.

· Ability to lead or direct a group of 6 technicians with different knowledge levels.

· **Strong** Industrial Electrical knowledge and troubleshooting to service entire facility.

· Proficient welding and metal fabrication experience/skills for maintenance projects, machine modifications, and upgrades.

· Overseeing and perform preventative maintenance from daily up to Annual schedules.

· Read and understand mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical schematics and drawings.

· Complete troubleshooting of mechanical and electrical related issues without direct supervision.

· Maintain work area and equipment by compliance with established 5s Standards.

· Follow prescribed safety rules and regulation as well as other departmental policies and procedures.

· Ensuring compliance with safety regulations, OSHA guidelines, and company safety policies.

· Detect, document, report and repair improper machine operation and faulty equipment.

· Diversified skills that will allow assignments to be given in any work area as required.

· Effectively inform through written communication daily pass-downs issues and actions.

· Provide leadership, training and directions when necessary for Operations.

· Comfortable with speaking to a machine service engineer to gather information, report unusual issues and problems for resolution.

· Effective usage of parts, hardware, and repairing old parts or replacements.

· Training and mentoring maintenance staff, to maintain high performance and safety standards and practices.

· Troubleshooting complex issues in a quick manner to minimize downtime and maintain productivity.

· Strong knowledge of hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, welding, and electrical systems.

· Knowledge of programmable controllers and their software and the ability to troubleshoot.

**Required Competencies & Knowledge:**

**Knowledge of:**

**Skill in:**

· Problem solving using defined methodologies.

· Organization and time management.

· Hydraulic and pneumatic control systems.

· AC and DC control wiring and components.

· Effectively and safely operate standard maintenance tools such as power tools, basic hand tools and electrical testing equipment.

· Maintenance Planning and scheduling ability to preventive & corrective maintenance schedules.

**Ability to:**

· Communicate effectively both verbally and written.

· Ensure collaborative relationships with CI staff.

· Issue and receive instructions using known guidelines.

· Lead ‘best in class’ behaviors with focus on safety, quality, and policies.

**Proficiency in:** MS Office

**Work Environment:**

· Work is primarily done in a food ingredient blending & packaging facility.

· Frequent production environment exposure which includes noise, dust, moving machinery, forklifts, and fluctuations in temperature.

**Physical Requirements**:

· Sitting at a workstation for short periods of time.

· Frequent line calls throughout the building require immediate response.

· Stand, walk, climb stairs and ladders on a frequent basis.

· Must be able to lift 50 pounds on an infrequent basis.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

• Recommend associates degree in a related field or similar.
• **Experience**: Minimum of 5 years in industrial maintenance, with prior lead experience.
• **Technical knowledge**: Strong understanding of electrical systems, equipment repair, and preventive maintenance practices.
• **SAP System** knowledge is a plus.
• **Soft skills**: Leadership, communication, problem-solving, and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

**Understand**, certify in and comply with LOTO & OSHA programs

Pay: $35.00 - $38.00 per hour

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