Maintenance Scheduler Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• A minimum of five years’ experience in maintenance work and projects.
• A university degree and a minimum of two years’ experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance practices and principles.
• Skill using scheduling tools such as Gantt charts, PERT networks, CMMS scheduling modules, and resource histograms.
• Ability to assess and prioritize work based on critical systems and equipment requirements, project commitments, work-order age, resource availability, and customer satisfaction.
• Ability to work with Supervisors to communicate priorities and assign required resources.
• Skill using a maintenance scheduling system.
• Effective team-building and communication skills.
• Ability to set priorities, work independently, and coordinate multiple projects using available resources.
• Must be willing and able to work mandatory overtime.
• Weekend shifts are required.

Nice To Haves

• Industry background and experience working in a trade discipline.
• High level of skill using MVP Plant or equivalent CMMS software.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an overview of the prepared corrective maintenance backlog and prioritize when work should be scheduled for execution.
• Coordinate with the Planner and Maintenance Supervisor regarding job execution and remain informed of execution constraints.
• Track available work-center capacities, campaign periods, upcoming constraints, specialist-service periods, and work-order priorities.
• Recommend trade-mix changes to fit estimated work.
• Forecast work several weeks in advance in coordination with the Reliability Engineer, Planner, Storeroom Supervisor, Engineering, and Operations.
• Stay informed of longer-term plans, particularly equipment stops, outages, and shutdowns.
• Prepare draft schedules based on task contents, operational constraints, and corrective work-order priorities; obtain approval and communicate the schedule.
• Facilitate weekly scheduling meetings and update the weekly schedule based on changes from daily maintenance meetings.
• Train with the Planner to provide backup Planner support and help develop a future Scheduler/Planner.
• Gather data and produce reports as required by the Maintenance Manager, including daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
• Review work-order feedback from trades regarding task lists and maintenance plans and recommend master-data corrections.
• Participate in or facilitate scheduling, shift-crossover, and weekly team meetings to review KPIs, action items, and maintenance performance and plan actions.
• Maintain files of daily production reports.
• Review corrective maintenance work requests from production departments.
• Ensure compliance with applicable safety, quality, and environmental requirements in work.
• Conduct monthly 5S audits.
• Interface with the Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Supervisor, Reliability Engineer, and Storeroom Supervisor to incorporate Best Business Practices.