Maintenance Planner

AESC is looking to add a Maintenance Planner-Scheduler/Supervisor to our team in Florence, SC.

• Full-Time
• On-site

AESC is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of high-performance batteries for zero-emission electric vehicles and energy storage systems. Founded in Japan in 2007 and headquartered in Yokohama, AESC has been building manufacturing capabilities around the world in the U.S., U.K., Europe, Japan and China to serve key markets and leading customers locally for over 14 years. Today, AESC has become the partner of choice for the world's leading OEMs and energy storage providers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its advanced technology powers over one million electric vehicles and provides more than 15GWh of installed capacity for battery energy systems in over 60 countries.

AESC is expanding its footprint in the United States with gigafactories in Kentucky, South Carolina, and Tennessee to meet the growing demand for EV and BESS batteries and strengthen its presence in the North American market. AESC's Tennessee gigafactory in Smyrna, which has been operational since 2012, produces batteries for Nissan. The Kentucky gigafactory in Bowling Green will supply Mercedes-Benz with high-performance battery cell modules. The South Carolina gigafactory in Florence will supply technology-leading battery cells for new electric models produced in BMW Group's Spartanburg plant. AESC is committed to our local communities where it is making its investments, creating jobs, and supporting local charities.

The Maintenance Planner-Scheduler/Supervisor manages or supervises a group of multi-craft, skilled maintenance technicians and a team of production technicians. Maintains and repairs production equipment in the assigned area. Plans and schedules maintenance work related to corrective maintenance, preventative maintenance, work order requests, equipment installation, and project-related work. Facilitates work group activities with maintenance and production to meet established quality standards and the objectives of Safety, Cost, and Delivery. Interfaces with managers to coordinate daily and weekly activities and set priorities. Given the strategic and supervisory aspects of this role, the position now encompasses significant leadership responsibilities that go beyond scheduling, warranting a salaried classification to reflect the complexity and impact of the work on the overall success of the team.

• Maintains a maintenance log of preventative and corrective maintenance work orders. Assigns jobs and schedules work as required to maintain a high level of completion of preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Supervises day-to-day activities for maintenance and production technicians, including but not limited to scheduled work time, time and attendance, disciplinary actions, evaluations of skill sets, and training plan development.
• Achieves Production and Maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Manages the CMMS system and work order backlog.
• Reports all KPIs related to maintenance, planning-scheduling, and production.
• Orders materials required to accomplish repairs to machinery and manages spare parts utilization to optimize operational efficiency. Plays a key role in managing the $22M spare parts budget with a direct impact on SC-1 production output.
• Reviews monthly non-production stores purchases, tags equipment repair items, and tracks scrap costs.
• Returns unused items to non-production stores.
• Addresses long- and short-term quality concerns and provides feedback to production, engineering, and quality control.
• Ensures technicians operate in a safe and efficient manner, adhering to all safety guidelines and rules. Proactively identifies and addresses safety concerns before incidents occur.
• Tracks and plans corrective action on equipment downtime issues, determining methods to meet and improve equipment up-time goals.
• Generates weekly KPI reports when needed and prepares one-point lessons (OPLs) and Standard Operating Sheets (SOS).
• Schedules technicians for technical and powered equipment training. Provides training on ISO9001 international manufacturing quality standards and ISO14001 environmental standards. Maintains all related training documentation.
• Helps in planning and installing new equipment, working with engineering and outside vendors. Manages parts associated with new equipment and implements engineering changes to enhance performance, reliability, and predictability of processes.
• Tracks and maintains employee records related to attendance, performance, overtime, safety, and mobile equipment licensing. Keeps technicians updated on all applicable policies.
• Serves as the primary point of accountability for communication between Operations and Maintenance to coordinate downtime planning.
• Supports quality investigations when needed.
• Understands and follows all standards of IATF16949 and VDA 6.3 quality standards.
• Understands and follows all standards of ISO14001 environmental standards.
• Supervises and provides leadership, coaching, guidance, training, and staff development; interviews and selects unit employees; plans and evaluates employee performance; recommends merit increases, transfers, and promotions; counsels and disciplines employees as necessary; recommends termination when appropriate; monitors time and attendance of subordinates and approves timesheets.
• Provides strategic oversight of resource allocation, ensuring optimal manpower and scheduling of downtime work in collaboration with Operations.
• As necessary, performs other related duties of which the above are representative.
• Performs all other related assignments (including special projects) as required in a professional and cooperative manner.

Welcome to AESC, where you'll have the opportunity to tackle the world's most fascinating challenges alongside exceptionally talented individuals who are driven to make a difference. We strive to ensure that our employees are well taken care of, enabling them to focus on their work and contribute to our collective mission.

We offer:

• Comprehensive compensation packages including a competitive salary and a rewarding bonus program.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.
• Highly automated, clean, safe, and temperature-controlled production environment
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• HSA and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401K with company match
• Life Insurance (Company paid and additional voluntary life available)
• Paid Vacation and 14 Paid Holidays
• Short term and long-term disability coverage (Company Paid)
• Tuition reimbursement

• One or two years of post-high school education ideal. Consideration will be given for equivalent related college or technical courses, seminars and in-house classroom training.
• Three (3) years of related experience at a professional level required.
• Two to five years in a work leader role coordinating the work of other employees and contractors ideal. This includes training new employees, assigning work, and checking the timeliness and quality of work. May have provided input into performance reviews. The majority of time in work leader role would have been spent performing work similar to that performed by the people whose activities the position coordinates.
• The preferred candidate possesses the experience and knowledge required to support continuous improvement activities within a maintenance & production department. The activities will lead to a highly effective, efficient maintenance & production team.
• Understands and follows all standards of IATF16949 and VDA 6.3 quality standards. (training and awareness will be provided for those who are not familiar with these standards)
• Understands and follows all standards of ISO14001 environmental standards. (training and awareness will be provided for those who are not familiar with these standards)

Even if you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Your application allows us to learn more about you and find potential fits within our team. We strive to respond to all applicants promptly, though times may vary with submission volume. If you don't receive an immediate response, it doesn't reflect on your candidacy; we'll keep your application for future opportunities. Thank you for your patience and enthusiasm as we improve our application process.

At AESC, we are committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) to all individuals. We participate in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S Join us in our passion to design, manufacture, and sell high-performance products, contributing to a sustainable and zero-carbon emission future.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

• Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
• Ability to read, write, speak, hear; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach and lift with hands and arms frequently throughout the day.
• Required to occasionally lift, push, pull and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally required to lift, push, pull and/or move up to 35 pounds.

The work environment is primarily an automated manufacturing plant with a concrete floor and is characterized by some temperature extremes, moderate noise, and forklift traffic. The individual must be able to perform all essential functions as appropriate on the plant floor, in meetings, and with employees, management, customers and suppliers.

Candidate must perform the essential duties and responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation efficiently and accurately, and without causing significant safety threat to self or others. The statements made herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive and inclusive list of all responsibilities, duties, and/or skills required of personnel so classified.

Hiring is contingent upon successful completion of drug screen and background check. AESC US LLC is a drug-free workplace.

Occasional domestic and international travel required.

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