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Maintenance Planner

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning and scheduling maintenance and calibration work for all Production, Engineering, and Facilities equipment and instrumentation at a Radio-Biopharmaceutical processing site.

Major Accountabilities:
· CMMS Blue Mountain expertise in creating equipment records, developing maintenance work plans and scheduling work to coincide with the production schedule. This will include verification of assets, workplans, and calibrations from new equipment onsite in addition to existing equipment.
· Provides technical support for Maintenance resources and Reliability Maintenance teams via KPI and non-conformance patterns reporting. Provides regular statistical reporting to the management team and stake holders showing quantified evidence of the productive use of the work force
· Accountable for contracted vendor management of site calibration and PM activities for Production, Engineering and Facilities equipment. This includes, but not limited to:
o New vendor additions to the Approved Suppliers List working with Suppler Quality
o Scheduling vendor activity by requesting Quotations for review, confirming scope, and initiating the PO process working with Site Maintenance Lead and Procurement
o Scheduling and Managing vendors onsite with Maintenance and Facilities support through execution.
o Sending equipment out for off-site calibrations and ensuring timely return to maintain CMMS schedule.
o Assuring onsite vendors are properly registered with security before arrival and receive any needed training/orientation while onsite before work begins
o Arranges work areas for vendors onsite as needed with Maintenance and Facilities teams
· Assumes responsibility for spare parts management, PM kitting, ordering, and receipt within budgeted plan.
· Assumes accountability for special projects as assigned
· Accountable for deployment and sustainability of site maintenance programs. Updates SOP’s as needed to enhance functionality within the local maintenance processes and conformance with global maintenance processes.
· Ensures compliance with all regulations, people safety, and product quality.
· Ensures adequate levels of technical expertise to maintain an effective operation.
· Participates in the business planning and budgeting processes.
· Develops short and long-term cost containment/reduction strategies.
· Effectively works with plant production scheduling, operations, and other contracted services to achieve business goals.
· Works with Supervisors to coordinate, communicate, and interprets policies for technicians to ensure that maintenance work is thoroughly planned, scheduled, scoped, estimated, and are properly staffed and implemented in accordance to plan.
· Maintains an understanding of the department's strengths, weaknesses, and resources, identifying potential organizational problems and opportunities. Communicate and reinforce roles and responsibilities of the team and how they support Company/Plant/Department strategies.
· Analyzes work orders by duration, urgency, skill set, location, complexity, and available manpower; and assist operations teams by issuing work orders in a sequential flow to individual technicians or work teams.
· Detailed understanding of the Maintenance Plans and ability to execute WO’s if needed

Minimum Requirements:
· Bachelor's degree in relevant area with 2 years’ experience in a relevant manufacturing environment or 6 years of relevant Maintenance Planning experience in lieu of degree.
· Broad exposure to several technical disciplines: Electrical, Mechanical, and Pneumatic controls, aseptic environmental controls, Laminar air flow, pressure cascades and monitoring, aseptic environmental tooling and materials used such as lubricants, sanitization agents, cleaning products

Maintenance experience in a technical capacity with biopharmaceutical processing equipment including: Production Isolators and ancillary systems, synthesis modules, vial dispensing equipment, sterility isolators, EMS systems, HEPA filtration, Viable and Non-viable particle counters, qualified utilities
· Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and other applicable computer software.
· Expertise with CMMS Maintenance and Materials Management functionality.
· Experience in developing maintenance plans for both preventive and predictive maintenance.
· Experience in Reliability Centered Maintenance Techniques and application to manufacturing equipment.
· Extensive experience in Root Cause Failure Analysis techniques and application.
· Experience participating in the budget process (creation and delivery).
· Preferred experience with SAP S4HANA
· Preferred experience with Power BI
· Preferred experience with e-Crib spares management

Location: Indianapolis, IN (Onsite)
Pay Rate: $25- $47.19/hr based on experience and qualifications (W2 Only)
Contract: 6 months 
Health, dental, vision, 401k

Why Novartis: 
Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?

EEO Statement:
The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Accommodation: 
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Magnit at [email protected].