At Danone, Manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for our plant teams. We are currently looking to hire a Maintenance Planner based in Dallas Texas manufacturing plant.

Danone North America offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options.

• Responsible for screening of all Work Orders, identification of scope, and analysis of required level of planning
• Continually update PMs and Work Instructions to reflect new learnings about improvements/failures.
• Ensure specific safety hazards are identified for each job and communicate LOTO procedures for specific tasks to be performed.
• Complete estimations of required hours on Work Order tasks, total durations, and skills required to perform the tasks.
• Determine and include QA/QC requirements for each job.
• Analysis of equipment performance and component life cycles
• Plan parts for all projects to increase "wrench time" and maximize efficiency.
• Coordinate priority setting with BU Leadership team and ensure all Work Orders and tasks are well-organized and closed after completion.
• Lead portions of the daily and weekly DDS process, including:
  • Daily reporting and prioritization of defects found, fixed and total backlog.
  • Daily reporting of breakdowns (includes leveraging Breakdown Elimination)
  • Contribute to development and execution of the Plan for the Day
  • Weekly tracking and reporting of maintenance measurement data - Backlog, MTTC, PM Completion (Indicators of health of Planning & Scheduling system)
• Identify and address safety risks related to maintenance activities.
• Own PM systems for the Line, focusing on Breakdown Elimination, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling PDMSs
  • Own the health of the Defect Handling system.
  • Coach and develop Teams by serving as a technical coach and resource.
  • MVP data integrity and adherence to MVP standards
  • Planning and Scheduling: Execute all planning and scheduling, shutdown plans, and all other maintenance activities to drive out losses.
• Support development of, and lead execution of the 90-Day Plan
• Attend critical maintenance meetings.
• Attend monthly team meetings.
• Complete audit follow-ups for your lines/systems
• Participate in plant wide shutdown PBEDs.

DAILY TASKS

Prior to morning BU DDS:

• Spend floor time to gather info on stops and defects to build Plan for the Day
• Alignment with OPEX on stops and defects to build Plan for the Day
• Investigate what items/Work Orders were not completed and why.
• Begin to develop Plan for the Day for ownership areas.
• Attend shift transition huddles.

BU DDS Meeting:

• Discuss stops, breakdowns and root causes, establish countermeasures in Plan for the Day
• Talk defects found and defects fixed, prioritize work orders to address defects to be fixed.
• Review work orders completed and work orders on the schedule for the day.
• Assign owner to follow-ups on daily plan.
• Request support from leadership and support groups to remove barriers.

Floor Time (Immediately following BU DDS...~2-4 hours daily):

• Carry out action items on the Plan for the Day
• Participate in Planned Stops for each line.
• Conduct coaching in ownership areas, coach root cause analysis of stops, breakdowns and defect handing.
• Execute health checks on DH PDMS
• Align all technical resources necessary to complete the Plan for the Day
• Collaborate with other Planners to support activities and resources across the plant.

Afternoon Reconnect DDS:

• Share what specific items were not completed and adjust maintenance plan to ensure completion.
• Update Plan for the Day
• Assign action item owners for Night Shift (if needed)
• Pass along critical information to Night Shift Supervisors and maintenance technicians.

Maintenance Planning/Budget:

• Oversee plan creation for upcoming maintenance windows. Ensure all needed parts are ordered and personnel requested. Collaborate with OPEX on additional action items that need to be addressed.
• Review maintenance expenses, forecast and plan upcoming activities to minimize costs.

• Attend the weekly BU DDS meeting.
• Conduct the weekly Maintenance Planning & Scheduling review meeting with the Reliability Lead

• Review data on what types of defects are being discovered (utilizing all types)
• Failure to defect ratio and if we are missing defects.
• Team engagement (are there defects being identified by multiple people?)
• Equipment ownership skills and development to be better defect hunters.
• Discuss backlog and follow up on quality of defect mitigation.
• Are there any barriers to implementing institutional fixes?

QUARTERLY

• Participate in Validation process and engage with team members to build 90-Day Action Plan