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Job Purpose and Impact

The Coördinator Werkvoorbereiding en Planning is responsible for supporting maintenance operations through work planning, scheduling, spare parts management, procurement administration, and maintenance reporting. The role acts as a key link between maintenance technicians, suppliers, and the maintenance manager to ensure maintenance activities are prepared efficiently and executed with minimal disruption to plant operations.

Key Accountabilities

• Research and compile information in close communication with technicians to generate highly effective and detailed job plans.
• Initiate the procurement of materials, special tools and unique items required in the job plans using relevant maintenance programs.
• Prepare job plans as required on general maintenance activities and schedule downtime and partner with more senior team members to identify opportunities to improve reliability and reduce lost production.
• Maintain custom databases to support specific work projects and processes.
• Plan the administration of execution of basic repair procedures and tasks to ensure compliance with the fundamental plant maintenance procedures and practices.
• Update the machinery history data in the tracking system as required.
• Provide reports to keep the maintenance leaders informed of work progress, costs and future work schedules.
• Receive goods and services into the different storage locations to ensure accurate stock levels and minimize purchase to pay non-conformance while keeping received materials segregated, returning defective and non-conforming goods to suppliers while maintaining a document trail.
• Ensure that inventory stock and safety stock values are accurate and systematically identify obsolete, potential consignment and overstock items.
• Schedule relevant inspection of goods to ensure compliance to technical specification and quality. 
• Define the most appropriate inventory management process based on the demand for the asset or spare part to minimize working capital.
• Understand, lead and monitor leading storage practices for parts, collaborating with suppliers to align with these leading practices to ensure inventory is stored to allow placement directly from inventory to functioning in the plant.
• Make purchase requests of stock items to maintain the determined inventory levels, partnering with local suppliers for vendor controlled inventory.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Fluent in Engish and Dutch (reading, speaking and writing)
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on
• Communicative
• Administratively accurate and highly organized
• Experience with an ERP system is a strong asset (maintenance software systems such as Maximo, SAP, etc.)
• Willingness to start work early (7:00 AM) is a strong asset
• Technical background is an asset