Maintenance Scheduler

**Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Is responsible for long-range as well as short-range maintenance work order planning. Regularly analyzes backlog work orders for planning and scheduling.
- Assures that work requested is valid and needed.
- Thoroughly understands how to fully utilize the computerized maintenance management system and SAP PM module
- Reviews with engineering those work orders requiring engineering design.
- Responsible for maintaining spare master list
- Examines jobs to be done and determines scope and best way to accomplish the work.
- Obtains blueprints, drawings, instructional manuals and special procedures, as needed, from files or other sources. Makes any additional sketches, diagrams, etc., necessary to clarify the intent of the work order.
- Identifies and obtains determinable materials, entering material needs on the work order.
- Ensures the safety needs are given a top priority in work planning and scheduling.
- Maintains ready backlog of work orders awaiting scheduling in accordance with their priority and requested completion date.
- Once a job is planned and estimated, prior to scheduling, verifies the availability of parts, materials and special tools required for its execution.
- Develops a maintenance work schedule for the Line Support and Reliability Crews.
- Attends meetings with the production planning department and participates in the overall plant scheduling of the following week's work and negotiates for asset/line downtime "windows".
- Develops work order schedule, ensuring the work scheduled balances with the man-hours available so that a full day's work is provided each person.
- Recommends equipment to be included in preventive maintenance programs.
- Schedules preventive maintenance and other planned work in coordination with production and maintenance supervisors.
- Promotes the conservation of energy.
- Develops a file of standard work orders (plans) for regularly recurring repair jobs, based on historical experience, to simplify the planning process.
- Reviews the actual labor expended versus estimated labor and material used for completed jobs.
- Job estimates are continually refined and thereby reflect improving accuracy and consistency.
- Assists maintenance and production management in periodically analyzing costs and, where necessary, recommends corrective action needed to reduce maintenance costs.
- Keeps the maintenance supervisor properly informed on all abnormal or critical situations and seeks advice on matters outside of the planner's knowledge or authority.
- Maintains necessary records and files and prepares and distributes meaningful and accurate control reports.
- Develops and maintains planner reference systems (library) including a file of Planned Job Packages for recurring jobs, plus labor and material libraries for each equipment center.
- Recommends additions to storeroom stock.

**Measurement of Position Performance**
- Orderly placement of work orders on the schedule(s).
- Increasing labor utilization due to improving labor estimates and weekly work order schedules.
- Improvement in mean time between equipment failures.
- The accuracy of estimates of labor and material.
- The improved use of labor and improved plant condition as expressed by a reduction in emergencies, overtime hours worked and in unscheduled labor worked, and reduction of contractor support.
- The timely and accurate preparation and distribution of meaningful control reports.

**Position Goals**
- To ensure that production areas receive prompt, efficient and quality service from the maintenance function.
- Accurately define and estimate work requests.
- Properly prepare and distribute meaningful control reports.
- To meet the needs of customers, both internally and externally.

**Relationships**
- Reports to the maintenance supervisor.
- Works closely with production supervisors.
- Works closely with maintenance associates.
- Works closely with stores and purchasing personnel.
- Maintains good working relationships with other organizational units in the plant.

**Requirements, Qualifications and Selection Criteria**
- Minimum 5-years maintenance experience as a qualified craftsperson on production lines.
- Mechanical/electrical/Instrumentation & Control background necessary
- Adequate craft knowledge to estimate labor hours and materials and to visualize the job to be performed.
- Able to read required P&ID, drawings and publications.
- Ability to visually identify defective parts.
- Must have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work efficiently under stressful situations.
- Good oral/written communication skills and possession of tact.
- Strong administrative skills to utilize CMMS and Microsoft Word & Excel.
- Working knowledge of SAP PM strongly desired.
- Good planning and organizational skills.
- Ability to understand what constitutes good instructions.
- Able to read blueprints and shop drawings.
- Understanding of the proper use of work orders, prio