SUMMARY:
The role of the Utilities Planner is to improve work force productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of manpower, parts and material, and equipment access plant wide. Reporting to the Engineering Manager and maintaining liaison between Production and Maintenance, Reliability Lead and or Maintenance Manager, this role is responsible for planning, scheduling and coordination of all tasks performed on the plant site related to Utilities/Building & Grounds, PSM and any other task requested by Leadership. He/she is also responsible for reliability of records and files essential to meaningful analysis and reporting of reliability-related matter plant wide. The planning and scheduling function is the hub from which all plan able reliability activity is coordinated. It is the process of describing a job in terms of how it is to be performed and what resources will be required. It involves a broad spectrum of activity. The Planner must know the Utilities Technician’s job well enough that they can describe what is to be accomplished and can estimate how many Labor-hours will be required.
SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
In the performance of work, the incumbent is required to comply with local, state, federal safety rules and regulations and the safety policies and procedures of Kraft Heinz Foods.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES including the following.
In performance of his duties, the Planner is:
- Initial Job Screening: The Planner receives all work requests for work or defect handling, except those which must be performed on the same day as requested. Such requests are handled directly by the Utilities Lead, without the benefit of planning.
- Analysis of Job Requirements: The Planner examines the job to be performed and determines the best way to accomplish the work utilizing a Job Scope Form.
- Job Research:
- Uses Equipment History to determine if the job has been previously performed:
- Refers to planner libraries and to the file of planned jobs to determine if the job or portions thereof have been previously planned.
- Talks to other functions with involvement or potential input in the job.
- Detailed Job Planning:
- Select and describe the best way to perform the job.
- Determines and sequences the job by specific and logical tasks or steps.
- Determines resource requirements.
- Job Preparation: Planner assembles the planned job package. This package for any given job contains documentation of all planning effort.
- Procurement: Purchasing and receiving materials. Documents all requisitions via the CMMS/EAMS.
- Job Scheduling and Coordination: allocates and coordinates the resources required for specific jobs and determines when jobs get done and which resources can best be applied to their performance in accordance with Utilities Lead collaboration.
- Daily Schedule Adjustment: Checks preparedness for each day of the Weekly Master Schedule.
- Weekly Schedule Compliance: Performs a Schedule Compliance report to gauge the completion rate of the scheduled work.
Metrics:
- % Scheduled Work
- Scheduled Compliance
- % Budget Spend
- Planner Accuracy
- % Work Orders Kitted
- Work Request Aging
- Planner Productivity
- Ready Backlog
Additional Planning Responsibilities
- Planning and scheduling for shutdowns (major and minor) o Gantt or Bar charts o Networks o Development of model shutdown plans by standard segments
- Development of Planner reference systems including a file of Planned Job Packages for recurring jobs, plus labor and material libraries for each equipment center.
- Identifies critical spares required to add and delete from stockroom. Facilitates approval to add, delete or change quantities.
- Asset Management: Acts as a key resource for asset identification as required by audits.
- Keeps the Utilities Lead and Eng Mgr properly informed of abnormal or critical situations and seeks advice on matters outside the Planner's knowledge or authority.
- Makes recommendations for system improvement.
- Promotes the conservation of energy.
- Timely and accurate preparation and distribution of meaningful control reports.
- The planner should be assigned 100% to the planning function, and not switched around to fill in for someone who has gone on vacation.
- The planner must avoid getting involved in unscheduled emergency and urgent work, if he/she is to get any planning done. The first day from a planner’s perspective is "tomorrow”.
Administrative Responsibilities
- Maintains essential records and files from which he prepares and distributes accurate and meaningful management reports.
- Facilitates daily coordination meeting with Operations and other Plant Stakeholders, maintaining and communicating the current R.A.I.L. (Running Action Item List) of identified issues as well as their resolutions.
- Interpretation and provision of historical equipment cost information.
- Participation in budgetary preparation, tracking, and analysis.
- Assists the Reliability Lead and Production Manager in periodic analysis of cost trends with recommendations for continual improvement.
- Performs other reliability related tasks and special assignments as requested by Leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: High school education; and at least 12-months electrical planning experience, a 2-yr degree electrical technical degree, or 4 years of electrical experience; or some equivalent combination of education and experience in the electrical or process instrumentation field.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Incumbent must get and maintain a valid Heinz Frozen Food Company equipment operator’s license with a Lift Truck and Platform/Scissor Lift endorsement within 30 days of starting the bid. Incumbent must have a valid driver’s license. Must be able to pass a job related test.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: This description covers the essential functions of the job and is not intended to provide a complete listing of every individual feature of the job. All jobs have the following general duties in addition to those stated in the description.
- Follow instructions as directed.
- Notify appropriate personnel on equipment breakdown.
- Actively participate in the training and development of others as necessary or directed.
- Keep work area clean and orderly.
- Know the general plant layout.
- Know and observe safety, security, quality, sanitation and personal hygiene requirements
It is the policy of Kraft Heinz Company to provide safe products that meet or exceed customer expectations, conform to company requirements and comply with government regulations. We are committed to understand and execute our individual and collective responsibilities, using as guideline the Kraft Heinz quality risk management process emphasizing food safety, product quality and the continual improvement of the quality management system.
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/V/D