Maintenance Planner / Scheduler
About The Position
The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler plans, schedules, coordinates, and monitors preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for United Rolls, Inc.'s foundry and machine shop operations. The role supports equipment reliability, uptime, and efficiency by developing work plans, managing maintenance schedules, coordinating resources, and contributing to continuous improvement. The position works with maintenance technicians, production supervisors, foundry managers, machine shop supervisors, purchasing, and operations leadership to minimize downtime and maintain manufacturing assets used to produce iron spun cast rolls. The position plans and schedules maintenance work, supports equipment reliability and failure analysis, coordinates spare-parts needs, and ensures maintenance activities meet safety and regulatory requirements. It also supports predictive maintenance methods, maintains equipment documentation, and participates in Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives. Success is measured using schedule compliance, preventive maintenance completion, downtime, equipment availability, backlog, inventory accuracy, cost control, safety, and reliability improvements.
Requirements
- Minimum 3–5 years of industrial maintenance experience in a heavy manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of industrial mechanical systems, hydraulics and pneumatics, industrial electrical systems, PLC-controlled equipment, bearings, gearboxes, rotating equipment, and welding and fabrication processes.
- Knowledge of CMMS software, preventive and predictive maintenance methodologies, and reliability-centered maintenance practices.
- Microsoft Office Suite skills, including Excel, Word, and Outlook; ability to use CMMS systems and develop reports, schedules, and maintenance metrics.
- Planning and organization, mechanical aptitude, problem solving and root cause analysis, communication, attention to detail, time management, project coordination, teamwork, data analysis, decision making, and safety leadership.
- Ability to work in a manufacturing environment with exposure to heat, noise, dust, vibration, and moving machinery; walk throughout foundry and machine shop facilities daily; climb stairs and ladders and access elevated areas; occasionally lift up to 40 pounds; and wear required PPE.
Nice To Haves
- Associate degree in Industrial Maintenance, Mechanical Technology, Engineering Technology, Manufacturing Technology, or a related field; equivalent education and maintenance planning experience will be considered.
- At least 2 years of maintenance planning, scheduling, or reliability experience.
- Experience in foundry, steel, machining, metals manufacturing, or similar industrial operations.
- Lean Manufacturing experience.
- Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
- Predictive Maintenance certification.
- Experience with foundry operations and molten metal processes.
- Experience with machine shop processes.
Responsibilities
- Develop maintenance work plans specifying labor, materials, tools, permits, and equipment needs.
- Review and prioritize maintenance requests based on safety, production impact, equipment criticality, and operational needs.
- Create job plans and standard procedures for recurring maintenance tasks.
- Maintain planned maintenance records in the CMMS and improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
- Develop weekly, monthly, and annual maintenance schedules and coordinate work with production schedules.
- Schedule major equipment shutdowns, planned outages, and annual maintenance projects; monitor compliance and adjust priorities.
- Conduct weekly scheduling meetings with maintenance and production personnel.
- Support reliability-centered maintenance, analyze failures and maintenance history, recommend PM improvements, and assist with root cause failure analysis.
- Track MTBF, MTTR, schedule compliance, equipment availability, and maintenance backlog.
- Coordinate with Purchasing and Stores to ensure parts and materials are available; maintain critical spare-parts lists, assist with MRO inventory, and establish stocking strategies for long-lead-time components.
- Coordinate maintenance planning for foundry equipment, including furnaces, pouring systems, dust collection, sand handling, mold preparation, shot blast machines, cranes and hoists, cooling systems, and compressed air systems.
- Coordinate maintenance planning for machine shop equipment, including lathes, boring mills, milling and grinding equipment, heat treating equipment, hydraulic systems, material handling equipment, robotics, automation, and coolant and lubrication systems.
- Ensure maintenance plans comply with OSHA regulations and company safety requirements; support LOTO, coordinate contractor safety and permits, participate in safety audits, and assist with environmental and regulatory compliance.
- Participate in Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives and identify ways to improve equipment reliability and maintenance efficiency.
- Support vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, and ultrasonic inspections.
- Develop and maintain equipment documentation and maintenance procedures.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
