Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

The role

The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler evaluates work requests, develops scopes of work, and estimates resources for proactive jobs. This person manages the work order backlog and creates weekly technician schedules to utilize available labor hours.

What you will do

• Evaluates non-emergency work requests and develops scope of work.
• Estimates labor hours, skillsets, parts, materials, equipment and special tools.
• Gathers technical documentation and verifies availability of parts.
• Maintains an organized and prioritized work order backlog.
• Employs continuous improvement process to update Job Plans.
• Conducts weekly planning and scheduling meetings with Production.
• Creates a Weekly Technician Schedule.
• Improves work order planning and scheduling effectiveness through review and metrics.
• Maintains records and files for analysis and reporting.
• Trains site employees on CMMS.

Required qualifications

• Associate Degree required in a technical field with 1-3 years of maintenance scheduling / planning experience and/or 5 – 10 years as a machine repair technician, or equivalent combination of both
• Familiar with industrial manufacturing environment
• Electrical/mechanical aptitude
• Proficiency with computers, maintenance systems, and applications including Microsoft Office
• Excellent verbal communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Ability to build and maintain positive, professional relationships
• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands/fingers, reach, climb, ascend/descend or balance to heights that may require a ladder or lift, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl in confined spaces, and talk
• Occasionally required to sit
• Must occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds
• Regularly required to use close vision and color vision
• Work is performed in a factory environment that is usually very loud
• May be exposed to outside weather conditions, risk of electrical shock, hazardous materials and/or greasy or slippery factory floors

Nice to have

• Desire to develop leadership attributes
• Experience in job plan development, job scheduling, and work execution
• Project management and capital project experience preferred
• CMRP certification
• Green Belt certification
• STS certification

Benefits

• Medical plans
• Dental plans
• Vision plans
• PTO
• 401k retirement plans with employer matching
• Tuition reimbursement

About the company

Founded in 1985, ATS is a company with a presence in the United States, Mexico and the United Kingdom. They are professionals in Industrial Maintenance.