Maintenance Planner

Requisition Number: 68040

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As a leading developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of scientific laboratory products for 100 years, Corning’s Life Sciences segment collaborates with researchers seeking new approaches to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and compress timelines in the drug discovery process. Using unique expertise in the fields of materials science, surface science, optics, biochemistry and biology, the segment provides innovative solutions that improve productivity and enable breakthrough discoveries.

Scope of Position

Provides leadership and technical expertise in effectively managing maintenance activities for the plants manufacturing and facilities related equipment. Includes responsibility for the plants CMMS – Maximo, along with planning, scheduling and executing predictive, preventative, and reactive maintenance activities to achieve maintenance excellence. May direct the daily work activities of maintenance personnel and contractors.

Key Responsibilities

• Reviews job requests and determines what materials, labor and job steps are required and when the work can be scheduled with operations input. Confers with work requestors and determines if work requests are valid for processing.
• Creates work orders, estimates labor requirements, and ensure all necessary parts and materials are available to complete the work. Obtains necessary parts and materials as needed.
• Assists with developing weekly schedules for maintenance personnel and participates in development of longer term maintenance plans and schedules.
• Communicates maintenance schedules to operations, engineering, quality and other support teams to resolve work and resource allocation problems.
• Confers with production supervisors and planner to coordinate the maintenance PM and production work schedules to ensure equipment availability.
• Establishes daily priorities for work requests, stages materials for planned jobs, and assigns work requests to specific resources. Reviews, prioritizes, and organizes backlog as necessary.
• Participates in planned maintenance activities
• Provides technical expertise with equipment problem solving, work prioritization and resource re-allocation.
• Tracks maintenance related metrics and communicates to key stakeholders
• Improves the planning and scheduling processes to reduce resources and waste.
• Follows up with work requestors to ensure work was completed satisfactorily.
• Maintains the plant CMMS work order system (Maximo).
• Documents planned and completed work in order to establish equipment and rebuild history for equipment. Trains maintenance personnel in the use of plant’s CMMS.
• Ensures 5S compliance and initiates new opportunities for improvement.
• Establishes and optimizes preventive / predictive maintenance programs for plant manufacturing and facilities equipment.
• Conducts analysis on maintenance data to identify failure modes and root causes of maintenance problems, and to identify problems in a timely manner.
• Supports overall plant safety including ownership of safety element and projects

Experiences/Education - Required

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• High school diploma or GED required
• Technical knowledge of plant manufacturing and facilities equipment along with knowledge of different maintenance skills
• Experience with a CMMS (Maximo is a plus) and developing predictive and preventative maintenance programs, TPM, or RCM.
• Computer skills with Microsoft office applications

Experiences - Desired

• Maintenance experience
• Perceived as a leader and is respected by peers.
• Experience providing leadership in a team based environment.
• Lean Six Sigma, and DMAIC
• SAP experience

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

The range for this position is $85,191.00 - $117,138.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position are dependent on hours worked and may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, pension plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, and PTO.

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Corning offers you the total package. 

Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial, and career from day one

• As part of our commitment to your financial well-being, we provide a 100% company-paid pension benefit that grows throughout your career. We also offer a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions. 
• Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company-paid life insurance, disability, and disease management programs.
• Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives, align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well – when Corning wins, we all win.    
• Getting paid for our work is important but feeling appreciated and recognized for those contributions motivates us much more. That’s why Corning offers a peer-to-peer recognition program to celebrate success by recognizing colleagues who demonstrate above-and-beyond behaviors. 

We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request an accommodation, please contact us at [email protected] .