MRO Storeroom and Planner/Schedular Specialist

AstraZeneca•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

The MRO Storeroom and Planner/Schedular Specialist coordinates maintenance resources and materials with Manufacturing, Facilities and Engineering, Quality, Warehouse, Procurement, Finance, EHS, suppliers, and service providers. The role communicates constraints, delays, schedule changes, compliance risks, and priorities, supports issue resolution, and maintains accurate, traceable records. The specialist leads scheduled facility and maintenance shutdowns by defining scope, priorities, schedules, resources, materials, permits, access, and readiness requirements. During execution, the role coordinates cross-functional teams, escalates safety, quality, resource, and schedule risks, manages plan changes, provides updates, and supports the safe turnover, testing, release, and restart of affected systems and areas. After shutdowns, the specialist captures lessons learned, reconciles work-order and material data, closes open actions, and recommends improvements. In a regulated GMP environment, the role ensures that materials, storeroom transactions, work orders, shutdowns, and planned maintenance comply with approved procedures, safety and quality standards, data-integrity principles, and applicable regulations. The specialist develops maintenance schedules, plans work orders, coordinates maintenance with production and other site activities, maintains CMMS records, tracks performance metrics, and manages MRO storeroom operations and inventory controls. The annual base pay or hourly compensation rate ranges from $89,874.40 to $134,811.60. The position is eligible for various incentives, including short-term incentive bonuses and equity-based awards for salaried roles. Benefits include qualified retirement programs, paid time off (vacation, holiday, and leaves), and health, dental, and vision coverage, subject to the applicable plan terms.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Facilities Management, a related field, or equivalent experience.
Three years of experience in MRO inventory, maintenance planning, materials management, warehousing, or a related field.
Technical knowledge of maintenance equipment and components.
Experience with CMMS platforms such as SAP, Blue Mountain, Veeva, or equivalent.
Knowledge of preventive and corrective maintenance, work orders, inventory control, and maintenance planning.
Experience coordinating spare parts, consumables, tools, critical components, and supplier lead times.
Strong organization and prioritization skills in a time-sensitive manufacturing environment.
Effective communication with technical, manufacturing, quality, procurement, contractor, and supplier teams.
Working knowledge of GMP, Good Documentation Practices, EHS, and data integrity.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience in GMP-regulated pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cell or gene therapy, medical device, or similar manufacturing is preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and communicate integrated schedules for preventive and corrective maintenance, calibration, facilities, utilities, and reliability work.
Plan work orders by confirming scope, labor, duration, tools, permits, materials, procedures, safety requirements, and access.
Coordinate work across site functions to minimize disruption to production and critical operations.
Align maintenance with production schedules, cleaning, environmental monitoring, equipment availability, and approved work windows.
Confirm that parts and materials are available before scheduling work and escalate constraints.
Maintain accurate work-order, planning, scheduling, and completion data in the CMMS.
Develop daily and weekly schedules, including priorities, assignments, contractors, and resource loading.
Track schedule adherence, backlog, overdue work, PM compliance, emergencies, and interruptions; report findings and recommendations.
Initiate nonconformance for overdue or past-due PM work orders outside the grace period.
Schedule work in GMP and controlled areas in accordance with site procedures.
Verify permits, lockout/tagout, risk assessments, instructions, gowning, access, and decontamination requirements before work begins.
Improve preventive maintenance, reduce reactive work and downtime, optimize labor, and increase spare-parts availability.
Prioritize corrective work based on equipment criticality, safety, quality, production, and business risk.
Participate in planning meetings and communicate changes, risks, constraints, and recovery actions.
Lead plans for shutdowns, major equipment work, facility projects, and commissioning or qualification activities.
Ensure completed work orders capture labor, materials, failure codes, downtime, and technical details for reliability analysis.
Prepare maintenance and inventory performance metrics, including compliance, backlog, work mix, stockouts, accuracy, and downtime.
Develop and track KPIs to assess performance, identify risks and trends, and drive continuous improvement.
Manage daily MRO storeroom operations and maintain critical parts, tools, consumables, and supplies for cell therapy manufacturing and facilities.
Receive, inspect, label, store, and issue MRO materials in compliance with procedures, GMP, safety, and inventory controls.
Maintain accurate inventory records in the CMMS, such as BMRAM or SAP Maintenance.
Set stock levels, reorder points, safety stock, and critical-spare requirements based on risk, usage, lead times, and production needs.
Monitor stockouts, obsolete or excess inventory, and long-lead items; escalate risks to maintenance, manufacturing, or patient supply.
Process material requests, reservations, issues, returns, and transfers with full traceability.
Maintain organized storage and required controls for temperature, humidity, cleanliness, shelf life, expiration, and material compatibility.
Perform cycle counts and physical inventories, investigating and resolving discrepancies per site procedures.
Maintain material master data, including descriptions, suppliers, part numbers, units, lead times, criticality, and approved alternatives.
Help qualify replacement parts and equivalent materials with Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, and Procurement.
Manage the return, repair, calibration, refurbishment, and disposal of maintenance tools, instruments, and components.
Document material movements and inventory activities in compliance with GMP, data-integrity, environmental, health, and safety requirements.
Coordinate with Procurement and suppliers to expedite critical materials and update stakeholders.
Support audits, investigations, CAPAs, change controls, and improvements related to MRO inventory and storeroom operations.
Lead scheduled facility and maintenance shutdowns by defining scope, priorities, schedules, resources, materials, permits, access, and readiness requirements.
During shutdown execution, coordinate cross-functional teams, escalate risks, manage plan changes, provide updates, and support safe turnover, testing, release, and restart of affected systems and areas.
After shutdowns, capture lessons learned, reconcile work-order and material data, close open actions, and recommend improvements.