Reliability Maintenance Planner

The R&M Planner Scheduler is responsible for the planning and scheduling of various types of work in their assigned plant areas.

The Planner Scheduler typically has no direct reports but works with maintenance and operations on Reliability and Maintenance processes.

This position may have assigned direct responsibility for R&M projects with minimal risk.

Reporting to the Reliability and Maintenance Manager, you will be accountable for managing, planning, and scheduling non-emergency work orders for equipment to maximize reliability, optimize maintenance costs and reduce equipment downtime.

Coordinates with the operating and maintenance personnel to determine, plan and schedule proactive maintenance including preventative, predictive, corrective maintenance and project work.

Designs and procedures based on studying the operation and failures to lower costs and improve equipment reliability and energy efficiency.

This position works with and supports the plant’s Equipment Reliability Processes.

• Planning, scheduling, and coordinating proactive maintenance activities of equipment. Providing technical assistance and maintenance expertise to the assigned plant value streams.
• Maximize the reliability of the equipment using a formal, systematic/analytical approach to planning and scheduling maintenance, and design improvements. Participate and facilitate, maintenance scheduled downtime, outages, and weekly planning meetings. The position also supports their assigned value stream area projects in maintenance activities that will improve the reliability of the equipment.
• Responsible for building detailed job plans, managing work orders and backlog for planned work, and ensuring proper data management of the plant’s Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Work order plans will be developed with all predictive technologies in conjunction with reliability engineers and other plant operating departments.
• Work within the company’s ERP and CMMS to monitor and manage performance. The planner scheduler will participate, organize, and conduct training programs for the maintenance personnel regarding new operating equipment, software, methodologies, and procedures when assigned.