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