Maintenance Planner

Company: Bayer CropScience Limited
Location: Berkeley
Posted on: March 29, 2025

Job Description:

At Bayer we're visionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We're doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining 'impossible'. There are so many reasons to join us. If you're hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there's only one choice.Maintenance PlannerPlan, schedule and coordinate maintenance, repair, and calibration activities on site to ensure maintenance is performed in a safe, reliable and efficient manner in compliance with standard operating procedures. Improve workforce productivity and quality through planning, scheduling and coordination of maintenance resources, parts, materials, equipment, and suppliers.YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIESThe primary responsibilities of this role, Maintenance Planner, are to:

• Job Planning: Research, identify, scope, and estimate materials, parts, labor, tools, equipment and external suppliers for maintenance task instructions. Update SAP maintenance plans with job plans.
• Spare Parts: Ensure parts are available for maintenance plans, unplanned repairs and plant shutdowns through coordination with Maintenance Spare Parts group. Create part requisitions as required for maintenance plans. Update SAP BOM and Component list with revisions.
• Shutdown Scheduling: Develop, coordinate and execute plant maintenance shutdown schedules with MS Project using Gantt charts, critical path analysis and resource leveling. Update and schedule progress during shutdowns, identifying critical path impacts, delays, acceleration, and compression. Communicate schedule progress at shutdown meetings with tracking schedule.
• Resource Planning: Schedule and coordinate maintenance work for all maintenance crafts including electricians, mechanics, instrumentation, HVAC, painting and carpentry as well as external vendors. Attend weekly resource leveling meeting to coordinate resources for planned work.
• Ensure safety considerations are given top priority in work order planning. Define safe work procedures, best practices, PPE, tools, and equipment for preventative maintenance.
• Partner with Maintenance Operations, Technical System Owners, and Production to plan and schedule preventative, corrective and calibration maintenance work orders.
• Hold weekly planning/scheduling meetings with Maintenance Operations, Technical System Owners and Production Managers to determine short and long term priorities as well as routine maintenance and repairs.
• Ensure complete and accurate records within SAP for parts, labor and maintenance plans. Update maintenance plans with actual labor to continuously improve estimated resourced tasks.WHO YOU AREBayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:Required Qualifications:
  • Associate's Degree and work experience (or Military Equivalent).
  • Certification in a planning/scheduling field; PMI-SP, AACE-CST, AACE-PSP, IFMA-CFM, IFMA-FMP.
  • 4+ years maintenance planning and scheduling experience.
  • Expert knowledge of maintenance, calibration and repair procedures, pharmaceutical plant operations, equipment schematics, manuals, procedures, process and instrumentation diagrams to develop job plans and schedule plant shutdowns.
  • Excellent written and verbal skills.
  • Documented knowledge of cGMP's, ISO Standards and industry best practices.
  • Proficient in MS Windows, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint.
  • Expert in MS Project and SAP.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate technical information effectively.
  • The position requires working independently and therefore must be self-motivated and self-directed.
  • Technical Knowledge: Must have significant breadth of bio-pharmaceutical drug substance and drug product manufacturing, engineering, safety, equipment, tools, labor resources, spare parts, quality systems, maintenance methodology, and critical path scheduling.
  • Significant depth and specialized techniques for planning, coordinating critical path schedules and maintenance job plans in MS Project and SAP.
  • Human Relations: Must have high level of active person-to-person interpersonal, presentation and meeting control skills required.
  • Accountability: Must be able to act independently to select means, methods and techniques for maintenance plans and schedules.
  • Sophisticated schedule decisions required for correct shutdown sequencing with influence on entire plant shutdown.Preferred Experience:
    • Associates Degree and 8+ years' Work Experience (or Military Equivalent); Bachelor's Degree with 6+ years' Work Experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.Employees can expect to be paid a salary of between $91,000-$125,000. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant's location, market data/ranges, skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors. This posting will be available for application until at least 12/8/2024.#LI-USYOUR APPLICATIONBayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Science for a better life, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans. Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.Location: United States : California : BerkeleyDivision: PharmaceuticalsReference Code: 834433Contact UsEmail: hrop_usa@bayer.com
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