Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

The role

The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler evaluates work requests, estimates resources, and manages the work order backlog. This person creates weekly technician schedules and maintains technical documentation to improve maintenance effectiveness.

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 part availability.
• 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 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
• Stand; walk; use hands/fingers to handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb, ascend/descend or balance to heights that may require a ladder or lift; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl in confined
• Occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds
• Regularly required to use close vision and color vision
• Occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock
• Work is typically performed in a factory environment and is usually very loud
• May be exposed to 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.