Scheduler

SunCoke Energy • East Chicago, IN

82d

About The Position

The position involves planning and scheduling maintenance work within the organization. The primary focus is on maintaining a sufficient backlog of planned routine and shutdown work, ensuring that all maintenance tasks are executed efficiently and effectively. The role requires collaboration with various departments to optimize resource utilization and minimize scheduling conflicts. Continuous improvement of job plans and processes is essential to enhance work efficiencies and reliability.

Requirements

• Experience in maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Strong understanding of maintenance work processes and methodologies.
• Ability to utilize scheduling tools and project management methodologies.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Experience in conducting job plan audits and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with reliability-driven improvement projects.
• Experience in managing outage planning and execution.
• Knowledge of safety regulations and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a sufficient backlog of planned routine and shutdown work for assigned areas.
• Participate in the management of work request and work order backlog.
• Review backlog and planning list for duplicates.
• Group work orders together for optimized resource utilization.
• Ensure plans meet the timing requirements of the plant.
• Check for understanding of scope through work request text and field walk-throughs.
• Review work requests for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure accurate assignment of work order type and maintenance craft.
• Use or create job plans lists for repetitive jobs.
• Build job packages that include identified hazards, safety information, and required documentation.
• Estimate total job costs for operations approval.
• Solicit feedback on executed job plans for continuous improvement.
• Understand job delay information and update plans to prevent recurrence.
• Conduct periodic job plan field audits.
• Incorporate constructability and maintainability in planning.
• Optimize repetitive tasks and PM programs through job planning excellence.
• Participate in bidding process and requisitioning for third-party services.
• Screen work requests to determine if scope is capital or expense.
• Participate in identifying and implementing reliability-driven improvement projects.
• Utilize approved scheduling tools to schedule non-emergency maintenance work.
• Coordinate scheduling efforts with departmental leadership.
• Facilitate scheduled completion of repair work per job priorities.
• Champion the maintenance workflow process and address issues as they arise.
• Lead daily and weekly maintenance scheduling meetings.
• Lead planning, scheduling, and procurement for annual outage/turnaround periods.
• Utilize advanced scheduling tools for resource-loaded outage schedules.
• Develop and report project critical path for scheduled outages.
• Work with Procurement to develop job scope for contracted services.
• Coordinate with departments to identify proper job scope for outage work.
• Lead lessons learned process and assist in improving standardized outage processes.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees