Maintenance Planner Scheduler

Delta Diablo•Antioch, CA

28d•Hybrid

About The Position

Delta Diablo is recruiting for a Maintenance Planner Scheduler in their Resource Recovery Services Division. This position will directly support the Maintenance Division by serving as the planner, scheduler, and coordinator of various maintenance and repair projects to ensure continuous and reliable work priorities are completed in a timely manner. This is an advanced journey-level classification in the Maintenance Mechanic job family, evaluating, analyzing, and providing equipment-related expertise and technical guidance to management on maintenance and repair processes. The role receives direct supervision from the Maintenance Supervisor and functional supervision from the Maintenance Manager and other District management staff. The Planner/Scheduler exercises functional supervision over lower-level Maintenance Mechanics and Maintenance Worker classifications and provides direction to warehouse personnel, including supervising and directing the work of temporary/contract warehouse and/or maintenance support staff.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent
Vocational or technical training in mechanical maintenance and repair
Minimum of five (5) years of industrial maintenance and repair experience
Two (2) years of prior experience planning and scheduling maintenance and repair work (A combination of education and specialized planning and scheduling experience may substitute for the two years of prior experience)
Working knowledge of pumps, motors, general and specialized parts, electrical, welding, and mechanical equipment typically used in water/wastewater treatment plant operations or comparable facilities
Computer skills and experience with inventory management and Computerized Maintenance Management System software necessary
Industrial maintenance equipment-related expertise
Understanding of reactive, preventive, and predictive maintenance to effectively manage and plan maintenance and repair projects, including estimating labor, materials, and skills needed to complete jobs.
Maintenance and repair processes in a wastewater treatment facility, and working knowledge of the work order system, planning and scheduling, and storeroom processes.
Technical writing skills to provide simple and accurate instructions on improving preventive maintenance activities.
Standard blueprints, machine and process drawings.
Basic math skills to plan and organize jobs and projects.
Good time management, organizational, and planning skills.
Inventory management and Computerize Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Establish, maintain, and improve the Maintenance planning and scheduling business flow process; schedule maintenance work into production plan.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Scope the full extent of maintenance work needed to conduct the relevant repair/preventive/predictive/design-out activities on the organization's plant and equipment.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Develop cost and time estimates of planned maintenance work.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Manage multiple priorities or projects simultaneously and keep them progressing to completion.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Purchase all necessary parts, equipment, services, and documentation to perform the maintenance work.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Write applicable maintenance procedures that promote defect-free maintenance work quality.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Maintain accurate equipment maintenance history and job records database, and technical information on processes, plant, and equipment.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Convert the organization's asset management and maintenance strategy into workplace activities.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Apply good stores management practices and parts management to ensure parts and equipment retain full reliability while stored.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Ensure key performance indicators are captured and reported for equipment reliability, maintenance department performance, and planning and scheduling business flow process.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Continually improving planning, scheduling, purchasing, stores, data management, and job reporting systems to increase planning effectiveness and efficiency.
Ability to do the following is required to perform the essential function: Collaborate with maintenance supervision to schedule manpower and resources for the most effective production and maintenance outcomes.
Must have a demonstrated ability to visualize and communicate the execution of work.
Have the ability to sketch or redline existing drawings.
Persuasively communicate ideas and assert a point of view in complex or controversial situations.
Intermediate computer experience, including working knowledge of MS Office software such as Word and Excel.
A valid California State Class C license must be maintained at all times.
A valid California Water Environment Association (CWEA) Mechanical Technologist certification (Grade II or higher) is required or must be obtained prior to the completion of the probationary period.
May be required to work overtime as needed.
Would be expected to respond or report to duty in emergency situations, which may occur after hours, on weekends, and/or holidays.

Nice To Haves

College-level coursework in project planning and supervision is desirable
CWEA Mechanical Technologist Grade Ill or IV is highly desirable.
Forklift certification is desirable.

Responsibilities

Serves as principal contact and liaison between Maintenance and Operations to plan, schedule, and coordinate routine and non-routine corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance work on agency-operated treatment plant systems, buildings, facilities, machinery, equipment, and vehicle fleet.
Contacts and works with personnel from other divisions and departments as needed.
Receives and reviews requests for maintenance and repair work and determines the most efficient and effective method to accomplish the work.
Provides job estimates for the work to be performed: labor, supplies and material, and any outside services.
Works with maintenance leads and supervisors to determine resource availability and balance the workforce load.
Develops preliminary workforce schedules.
Verifies all material, information, tools, and labor are available prior to scheduling.
Provides direction to warehouse personnel for the procurement and pre-staging of all parts and material required for the completion of maintenance jobs.
Manages and administers the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), including developing a metrics program to measure division efficiency and labor utilization and to produce work performance reports for management information and use.
Provides information and assistance to the public, other District officials, and staff.
Assumes responsibility for covering a part of the work assignments of co-workers during short absences as assigned.
Participates in teams engaged with process and customer service improvements, cross-training, and team evaluations.
Performs other work consistent with the responsibilities assigned to the classification and necessary to the effective operations of the District.
May assist with special maintenance and repair projects.
Establish, maintain, and improve the Maintenance planning and scheduling business flow process; schedule maintenance work into production plan.
Scope the full extent of maintenance work needed to conduct the relevant repair/preventive/predictive/design-out activities on the organization's plant and equipment.
Develop cost and time estimates of planned maintenance work.
Manage multiple priorities or projects simultaneously and keep them progressing to completion.
Purchase all necessary parts, equipment, services, and documentation to perform the maintenance work.
Write applicable maintenance procedures that promote defect-free maintenance work quality.
Maintain accurate equipment maintenance history and job records database, and technical information on processes, plant, and equipment.
Convert the organization's asset management and maintenance strategy into workplace activities.
Apply good stores management practices and parts management to ensure parts and equipment retain full reliability while stored.
Ensure key performance indicators are captured and reported for equipment reliability, maintenance department performance, and planning and scheduling business flow process.
Continually improving planning, scheduling, purchasing, stores, data management, and job reporting systems to increase planning effectiveness and efficiency.
Collaborate with maintenance supervision to schedule manpower and resources for the most effective production and maintenance outcomes.
Visualize and communicate the execution of work.
Sketch or redline existing drawings.
Persuasively communicate ideas and assert a point of view in complex or controversial situations.