Maintenance Planner & Scheduler – Aerospace Materials
About The Position
The Maintenance Planner & Scheduler is responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating, and continuously improving preventive, predictive, corrective, and turnaround maintenance activities at a highly automated and regulated aerospace chemical manufacturing facility. This reliability role ensures maintenance work is properly scoped, planned, kitted, resourced, scheduled, and executed while minimizing impacts to operations, safety, quality, and environmental compliance. This is an on-site position at PPG’s Shelby, North Carolina facility, reporting to the Asset Care & Maintenance Reliability Manager.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering technology, industrial technology, or a related technical discipline, or an associate degree with extensive maintenance planning experience.
- At least 5 years of maintenance, reliability, or engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
- At least 3 years of dedicated maintenance planning and scheduling experience.
- Experience in aerospace, chemical, pharmaceutical, specialty materials, defense, or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience with automated process equipment, PLCs, robotics, instrumentation, utilities, and process systems.
- Demonstrated success improving maintenance KPIs and execution discipline.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, Green Card holder, political asylee, or refugee.
Responsibilities
- Own the maintenance planning, scheduling, and work management process for all plant assets.
- Review and prioritize work requests and convert them into executable work orders with detailed labor, material, tooling, safety, and duration requirements.
- Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance schedules aligned with production and operational priorities.
- Coordinate maintenance activities, equipment downtime, and contractor work with Operations, Engineering, Quality, EHS, Production, and other stakeholders.
- Manage EAMS data integrity, PM programs, asset hierarchies, maintenance backlogs, and material availability.
- Support shutdowns, outages, reliability improvement initiatives, root cause analyses, and reliability-centered maintenance programs.
- Monitor maintenance performance KPIs and drive continuous improvement through Lean, TPM, and maintenance best practices.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid vacation
- Paid holidays
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Disability and leave benefits
- Voluntary benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
