Business Unit Overview Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news. Brand Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets. At Post Consumer Brands, we take pride in our longstanding legacy of making one of every five breakfast cereals families eat daily. Today, we’re just as focused on our future as we expand our grocery business with different shelf-stable foods, including snacks and peanut butter. We are committed to providing accessible and delicious food for families, and we’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio. As we soar to new heights, we need creative, determined individuals from all walks of life to join our team, where your unique perspective and ideas are acknowledged and valued. Be a part of a company that empowers you to make a difference that’s evident on grocery store shelves and families’ tables across North America. Location Description Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Mich., the cereal capital of the U.S., is the company's largest manufacturing plant and home to about 600 team members. When you join the team here, you'll be helping to produce some of the most iconic cereal brands, including Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, PEBBLES cereal, Grape-Nuts and Honeycomb cereal. The Battle Creek plant is also unique as it is home to the original barn where C.W. Post started the Postum cereal company in 1895. The Battle Creek team has deep community roots, supporting the city's Cereal Festival, local elementary schools, and hosting several on-site volunteer events throughout the year. Responsibilities The role of the Maintenance Planning Supervisor is to manage, coach, mentor, develop and standardize the work of the maintenance planning team. They are responsible for planning best practices, standards, standard work, metrics, and continuous improvement in the maintenance planning team. They partner with maintenance, operations, and engineering to drive improvements in planning and scheduling at the site. They ensure that work is spread evenly across the planning team. In addition to supervising the planning team they are also a working Planner and lead by example. As a Planner they work to improve workforce productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of manpower, parts and materials, and equipment access. Planned maintenance activities include Preventive and Predictive maintenance routines, scheduled repairs and rebuilds, installations, and facilities maintenance. The position is also responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the data in the EAM system, including equipment master records, work orders, equipment repair histories, recurring Preventive Maintenance plans, and equipment Bills of Materials. JOB ACTIVITIES / DUTIES Responsible for: Promote and drive safety improvements within planning team, entire maintenance team, and across entire site. Overall success of the planning function, including direct supervision. Visiting the job site of all new maintenance work orders to confirm scope of work and develop a preliminary estimate of labor and material requirements and recording these decisions on the Planning Checklist. Collecting the information needed for the written job plan. Identifying lockouts, tag-outs, and permits needed. Estimating the labor hours needed to perform the work, both rough and detailed as required. Determining parts, materials, and special tool requirements. Providing a cost estimate to include labor, materials, and contract services. Initiates pick lists for Storeroom parts and materials. Writes purchase requisitions for direct purchase of outside parts and materials. Assembling the complete and final “Job Package” and communicate to the Maintenance Supervisor. Ensuring that all information needed to support the planning process is complete, accurate and readily available to everyone. Reconciles the demands for work (man-hours needed) with available resources on the Weekly Schedule and Shutdown Schedule. Identifies the need for “borrowed” manpower from other areas. Identifies work that can be performed by “helpers” or Contractors as an alternative. Updating the EAM files and backlog to reflect the work completed. Updating equipment history files with information that will improve the planning for future events. Coordinating and exchanging common planning information with other Planners. Prepares the preliminary schedule for the Shutdown events. Facilitates the discussion during the various preliminary Shutdown meetings. Publishes and distributes the final Shutdown Schedule prior to the event. Coordinates definition of manpower requirements for Shutdown events. Uses MS Project to produce a "timeline" chart for the Shutdown. Prepares the information and statistics for the post-Shutdown Lessons Learned Meeting. Site super user for maintenance systems and processes. Train, coach and mentor Maintenance Techs, Planners and Operations on EAM. Create Standard Work for Planners to be used at site and across PCB. Set up reoccurring PM’s and PdM’s at site. Create site reports and KPIs. Participate in Project meetings – Requirements, Maintainability, Equipment Reviews, Etc. Lead initiatives/projects to improve Work Management Process such as planning, BOM creation, Job plan, etc. Oversee the planning, scheduling, PM and plant outage activities. Maintain consistent workload across planning team. Coach, mentor, develop and discipline planning team. Work to continuously improve the skills of the planning team to drive business results. Coach and mentor others outside of Maintenance on best practices, process, roles, and responsibilities to drive improvements across the site. Monitor and improve processes, procedures, and equipment to reduce or eliminate safety hazards and risks in the Maintenance department with a goal of achieving a zero lost time accident record. Recruit, hire and develop site Planners. Other duties as assigned. Qualifications Education: Associate degree (or equivalent work experience) in Technical or Manufacturing discipline required. BS/BA preferred. Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician (CMRT) or similar preferred. Experience: Fundamental understanding of plant production and packaging processes. Experience with MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Project. Seven or more years of engineering or maintenance experience in a food processing plant environment preferred. 5+ years using CMMS systems. Infor EAM experience is desirable. Knowledge of Maintenance Management principles including but not limited to Precision Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Root Cause Failure Analysis, Shutdown and contingency planning; desire to work with maintenance disciplines as a team. 6+ years as a Maintenance Planner or similar work. 3+ years as a Maintenance Supervisor Competencies: Mechanical and electrical aptitude, strong analytical skills, and ability to apply learned concepts a must. Demonstrated follow-up skills. Demonstrated skills to address process opportunities and make sustainable improvements. Demonstrated commitment to meet deadlines. Strong verbal and written communication skills Skills: Must be self-driven, organized and be able to work in a fast-paced team environment. Ability to influence broadly across location to drive results. Ability to manage moderate scope change initiatives. Ability to work with multiple priorities and prioritize work. Ability to teach and train new employees. Responsible for accurate and timely completion of assigned work. Microsoft Office JOB ACCOUNTABILITY Work Structure: Works under general guidance of the Maintenance Management staff. Work is highly independent and collaborative in nature. Supervises team of Planners. Travel: Typically, travel is minimal, 15% or less. Post Holdings and Post Consumer Brands provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.