Planner and Scheduler

Reworld Projects • Usa, PA

12h

About The Position

As a Maintenance Planner, you will help ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of a highly technical industrial facility. The role plans, schedules, coordinates, and optimizes maintenance activities to maximize equipment availability, improve asset reliability, reduce downtime, and support uninterrupted plant operations. The Maintenance Planner works with maintenance, operations, engineering, contractors, and site leadership to align maintenance priorities with operational goals, safety and environmental requirements, reliability objectives, and production targets.

Reporting to site maintenance leadership, the role develops and manages maintenance plans, work schedules, outage activities, inspection programs, and reliability initiatives across the facility. PeopleSoft is the primary computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). The position supports preventive, predictive, corrective, and reliability-focused maintenance; outages; capital projects; asset management; and continuous improvement. It is a key contributor to long-term maintenance strategy and may provide a pathway to broader maintenance, reliability, and operations leadership opportunities.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• At least three years of experience in maintenance planning, maintenance coordination, reliability support, maintenance supervision, or related maintenance work in an industrial or continuous-process environment.
• Experience supporting plant outages, shutdowns, turnarounds, major maintenance projects, capital projects, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong organizational, planning, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, instrumentation, and industrial process systems.
• Experience using a CMMS for work order management, maintenance planning and scheduling, asset management, and reliability tracking.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects, balance competing priorities, and manage resources in a dynamic operating environment.
• Ability to collaborate across maintenance, operations, engineering, contractors, suppliers, and leadership teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project.
• Experience analyzing maintenance data, equipment history, reliability metrics, failure trends, and performance information to support maintenance planning and asset reliability.
• Ability to support asset reliability programs, maintenance excellence initiatives, and long-term equipment performance improvement strategies.
• Ability to perform the duties and responsibilities of the role while upholding Reworld’s Values, including contributing to a safe and inclusive workplace, delivering results through trust, and building breakthrough capabilities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with PeopleSoft is preferred.
• Experience with SAP, Maximo, Oracle, Infor, or similar ERP/CMMS platforms will also be considered.
• Experience in power generation, waste-to-energy, resource recovery, pulp and paper, chemical processing, manufacturing, industrial utilities, or another continuous-process industrial environment is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure maintenance activities comply with Reworld safety policies, environmental requirements, industry standards, and applicable regulations.
• Develop, schedule, and optimize preventive, predictive, corrective, and reliability-focused maintenance work orders using the CMMS.
• Prioritize maintenance work based on equipment criticality, operational requirements, production schedules, resource availability, and business needs.
• Create, review, track, and close work orders, maintaining accurate labor, materials, completed-work, equipment-history, and maintenance-record documentation.
• Work with maintenance teams to capture work feedback and improve job planning effectiveness.
• Coordinate technicians, contractors, tools, equipment, and materials for planned work, and work with the Storeroom team to ensure required parts are identified, staged, and available.
• Support planning and scheduling of capital projects, equipment installations, plant modifications, major repairs, and shutdowns.
• Assist with planned and unplanned outage planning, including manpower, material procurement, contractor coordination, schedules, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Develop work scopes, schedules, and execution plans for major maintenance activities during scheduled outages.
• Evaluate equipment history, maintenance records, condition-monitoring data, predictive maintenance results, and performance trends to set priorities and improve reliability.
• Support equipment inspections during planned and forced outages.
• Develop outage inspection matrices covering inspection scope, schedules, budgets, resources, and execution strategies.
• Compile, analyze, and present inspection findings, maintenance metrics, equipment performance data, and reliability information.
• Prepare condition assessment reports, executive summaries, and recommendations for repairs, replacements, lifecycle management, and reliability improvements.
• Develop, revise, and maintain maintenance standards, specifications, inspection procedures, job plans, and outage work-scope requirements.
• Support continuous improvement in equipment reliability, maintenance effectiveness, cost optimization, operational efficiency, and asset performance.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage for regular full-time employees based in the USA.
• Flexible spending account (FSA) and health savings account (HSA).
• Short- and long-term disability benefits.
• 401(k) plan with up to a 7% company match.
• Company-paid life and AD&D insurance.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).
• Paid parental leave.
• Educational assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED