Roles and Responsibilities:

Job Summary/Overview:

As the Electrical Work Planner at the Austin site for Samsung, you will be responsible for all aspects of planning, scheduling and tracking maintenance work activities. This includes the creation of work packages for industrial electrical work orders (WO) to support electricians and maintenance technicians in the execution of work and the continuous improvement of work planning and coordination to reduce downtime and improve performance.

In this position, you will act as a support resource for multiple supervisors and electrical technicians to execute work effectively and efficiently. Work activities must be planned in compliance with facility safety guidelines, company and department policies, and accepted national, state and local codes/standards. You will collaborate with other departments to coordinate work scheduling and with internal supervisors to manage and resource-load the work schedule.

In addition, you will assist in the ordering and requisition of parts related to maintenance work, as well as the management of onsite inventory.

Specific Job Duties:

 • Participates in two-week look-ahead planning process and manage the work schedule.
• Works with Reliability and Operations Engineers to ensure timely PM execution and provide feedback to ensure electrician/technician resources are efficiently used.
• Reviews all Service Requests or internal resourcing request to determines validity and accuracy of information and engage the appropriate resources to set a preliminary priority.
• Prioritizes work through a defined protocol of process criticality and equipment redundancy.
• Uses critical path methods and other planning methods to coordinate and optimize work flows.
• Plans and schedules preventive maintenance work, primarily with the use of a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to ensure just-in-time completion (compliance).
• Coordinates with warehouse staff & Parts Conductor to ensure on-time delivery of parts required to support work activities.
• Assists Parts Conductor with parts ordering and requisitions as department workload requires and acts as backup Parts Conductor.
• Obtains and organizes all information required for the work to be performed. (i.e. PTP’s, KPA’s, drawings, vendor manuals, supplemental materials, special procedures, diagrams, etc.)
• Creates work packages for all work orders, including but not limited to:
• Work Order Data, LO/TO Plan, Work Plan, Change Point Management, Work Order Closeout
• Reviews work orders to ensure accuracy, completeness prior to closure.
• Tracks historical spending and manage current spending to meet expense targets for labor/outside services associated with service contracts.
• Reports basic key performance indicators (KPIs) and collaborate with supervisors/managers to guide decision-making for performance improvement.
• Participates in redundancy and contingency planning for emergency situations.
• Assists with review of requests for proposal, contracts for maintenance, and similar documents for accuracy, approach, requirements, and recommends appropriate action.
• Completes other duties as assigned. 

Shift:  M-F, 8AM-5PM, overtime as required 

Skills and Qualifications:

Education, Training, Certification(s) and Minimum years of experience required:

• 2-year degree preferred, or commensurate 4-year work experience minimum
• 4+ years of experience as an industrial facilities planner/scheduler preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Journeyman Electrician (Master Electrician license preferred)
• Applicable experience may be substituted for the licensure requirement 

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Software, and Tools:

• Ability to identify what is needed to execute a WO, including selection of the proper Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and parts/materials.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders, to ensure plans are realistic and achievable.
• Experience with standard computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) or other work order system.
• Ability to learn and execute both work planning and parts ordering/management processes
• Experience with MS Excel and simple databases for the tracking and manipulation of data
• Experience with electrical technical data, such as drawings, vendor manuals, supplemental materials, special procedures, diagrams, etc.
• Ability to balance scheduled work orders with labor availability and skills/subject matter expertise
• Ability to estimate and define requirements for total labor, materials, special tools, equipment, and skill sets, for all work including complex projects such as plant shutdown, plant improvement projects, etc.
• Ability to prepare and present comprehensive reports with recommendations or needed changes
• Experience with advanced work planning for capital improvement and job order contract projects
• Demonstrates superior seamless customer service, integrity, and commitment to innovation, efficiency, and fiscally responsible activity.
• Experience with periodic (monthly) financial forecasting of monthly maintenance activities to control expense spending.
• Permanent right to work in US.