Zoetis is the world's largest Manufacturer and Supplier of Animal Pharmaceuticals.
Are you looking for your chance to work for the #1 Animal Health company in the world? Zoetis is looking for the next amazing colleague to join our family, as a Maintenance Planner -Scheduler. You will plan and schedule all work for Maintenance Team 4. Act as the primary point of contact and manage resources to execute work as efficiently as possible. Assist in budgeting including financial transactions and reports.
Benefits Include:
$500 Sign on Bonus
4 weeks accrued paid vacation and 13 paid holidays.
401(k) match with company profit sharing.
Tuition reimbursement and Student Loan repayment program.
Great Health, personal, and family benefits starting day 1.
Hours: 1st shift, 7:00am - 3:30pm (typical). Overtime, weekends, and holidays may be required.
Position Responsibilities
Looking for a detail-focused technical expert who takes pride in a job well-done. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the success of Team 4 by planning and driving all necessary day-to-day activities.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and Schedule Maintenance Work: Organize and schedule tasks for Maintenance Technicians, ensuring equipment availability, labor, skills, materials, and tools are accounted for all PMs in the areas of QO, VMRD, FAMs, and Utilities Maintenance.
- Estimate Costs: Provide labor, duration, and material cost estimates for maintenance work orders.
- Financial: Obtain quotes, create Purchase Order requests, process invoices, resolve payment issues.
- Prepare Documentation: Compile and gather necessary documentation for planned work, including identifying special tools and obtaining blank work permits and parts.
- Maintain CMMS: Enter and maintain planned information in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
- Review Metrics: Provide or review planning and scheduling metrics, understanding their impact on processes.
- Coordinate Parts Availability: Ensure parts are available before scheduling work for all major PMs.
- Change Control: Ensure GMP-related work orders and required work permits are approved.
Scheduling:
- Develop Work Schedules: Create schedules that include PMs, corrective work orders, and work schedules.
- Resource Allocation: Ensure appropriate labor, skills, tools, and materials are available to match the proposed schedule.
- Assign Work: Assign tasks to technicians, ensuring all available labor hours are utilized.
- Coordinate with Teams: Work with Maintenance Team Leaders and other team members to ensure resource availability, adjusting labor or reassigning tasks as needed.
- Adjust Schedules: Assist Maintenance Team Leaders in making weekly schedule adjustments to accommodate emergency and unexpected work.
Education and Experience
You will need to have:
- Highschool diploma or GED
- A technical aptitude
- Good communications skills and demeanor
Even better if you have:
- Associate degree in a technical field such as Electro-Mechanical.
- Relevant experience in Pharmaceutical or Food manufacturing.
- Experience with planning, scheduling, and financial transactions.
Technical Skills and Competencies Required
Highly motivated with effective leadership skills.
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written. Demonstrated ability to interact with and positively influence internal and external work groups.
- Capable of maintaining poise and even temperament within fast paced environment with frequent changes.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Strong computer skills in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, Adobe, and SAP.
- Ability to gather, sort and analyze data for various purposes related to work organization and budgetary issues.
- Ability to interpret maps, blueprints, and schematics.
Physical Position Requirements
SAFELY work in an industrial environment using approved procedures, i.e., Lockout/Tagout, confined space, line break, right to know, PPE, etc.,
Have experience in the use of hand and power tools…it's Maintenance after all.
Occasionally lift to 50 lbs.…never more.
Work in areas that may be hot, cold, stinky, noisy, ultra-clean, or require additional PPE. May be exposed to temperature variations, prolonged standing, or walking.
Valid drivers' license may be required.
About Zoetis
At Zoetis, our purpose is to nurture the world and humankind by advancing care for animals. As a Fortune 500 company and the world leader in animal health, we discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and other technologies for companion animals and livestock. We know our people drive our success. Our award-winning culture, built around our Core Beliefs, focuses on our colleagues' careers, connection and support. We offer competitive healthcare and retirement savings benefits, along with an array of benefits, policies and programs to support employee well-being in every sense, from health and financial wellness to family and lifestyle resources.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Connected to our purpose and Core Beliefs, at Zoetis, we lead with inclusion. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) focus helps create an environment where each colleague can thrive. Our commitment to DE&I begins with our leadership team of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ethnicities, and it is demonstrated in our support of our colleagues and the animal health industry. We have nine colleague resources groups whose members spread awareness, foster inclusivity and make a positive impact on our business and communities.
Our commitment to advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has earned us recognitions as a 2024 Catalyst Award recipient and a Top 50 Company for Workplace Fairness by Fair360 (formerly DiversityInc). Zoetis has also been named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality, a Best Company for Working Parents, a Top Company for Executive Women, among many others. Learn more here.
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