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Southwire Maintenance Planner in Florence, Alabama
Maintenance Planner
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Date: Apr 22, 2025
Location: Florence, AL, US, 35630
Company: Southwire Company LLC
A leader in technology and innovation, Southwire Company, LLC is one of North America’s largest wire and cable producers. Southwire and its subsidiaries manufacture building wire and cable, utility products, metal-clad cable, portable and electronic cord products, OEM wire products and engineered products. In addition, Southwire supplies assembled products, contractor equipment, electrical components, hand tools and jobsite power and lighting solutions. The company also offers digital solutions including contractor planning and utility grid resiliency as well as field services including cable testing, rejuvenation and replacement to support our customers as a value-add partner. We are proud to offer competitive compensation, employee benefits, tuition reimbursement and unlimited growth opportunities. Our more than seven decades of progressive growth can be attributed to our determination to developing innovative systems and solutions, exercising environmental stewardship and enhancing the well-being of the communities in which we work and live. How will you power what’s possible?
Location: Florence, AL
Southwire Job Description
The maintenance planner role delivers the routine planning services required to sustain a proactive culture for all individuals performing maintenance functional tasks. Key aspects of this position include:
• Ensuring that qualitative maintenance plans and job packages are prepared to facilitate execution of preventive and corrective maintenance activity.
• Prioritizing safety and environmental considerations through job safety analyses, method statements and identified permitting requirements.
• Establishing an adequate backlog that supports the plant’s scheduling efforts.
• Monitoring of planning accuracy to continuously improve planning for repetitive jobs.
• Contributing to the asset Bill of Material (BOM) development to increase planning and job execution efficiencies.
• Maintaining a library of job task lists that provides easy access and identification of repetitive work planning.
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Key Responsibilities
• Accountable for development of job plans that identify safety hazards, permitting requirements, special tools and equipment, and required PPE.
• The job plans created by the planner will breakdown critical task that include types and number of craft resources, contractor requirements and internal and external material requirements.
• Builds a ‘ready to be scheduled’ backlog with time requirements assigned to job tasks to support weekly maintenance scheduling.
• Prioritizes job development based on asset criticality and customer prioritization of work.
• Supports the strategies of maintenance planning, scheduling and execution.
• Assists in contractor coordination and performs service entries of completed services.
• Performs requisitioning as part of the planning activity.
• Assists in development of preventive maintenance plans for all applicable plant assets.
• Manages all corrective and preventive job plans / task lists to ensure readiness for scheduled and unscheduled recurring work opportunities.
• Serves as a local master data manager within the plant SAP PM environment. Serves as a SAP PM subject matter expert for the plant. Creates bills of materials (BOMs) for plant assets.
Competencies
Action Oriented
Balances Stakeholders
Collaborates
Customer Focus
Nimble Learning
Plans and Aligns
Benefits We Offer:
401k with Matching
Family and Individual Insurance Packages (Health, Life, Dental, and Vision)
Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
Long & Short-Term Disability
Supplemental Insurance Plans
Employee Assistance Program
Employee Referral Program
Tuition Reimbursement Programs
Advancement & Professional Growth opportunities
Parental Leave
& More
Southwire is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Nearest Major Market: Florence
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