Maintenance Scheduler

Looking for a rewarding career with a company that values people growth sustainability and teamwork Join ourteam as a Maintenance Scheduler!

This role is onsite at our Duraflake manufacturing site and reports directly to the Maintenance Manager.

What we are looking for:

• 35 years of experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Experience with a CMMS/EAM system (e.g. SAP PM Maximo).
• Strong planning scheduling and organizational skills; familiarity with MS Project a plus.
• Demonstrated leadership facilitation and cross-functional communication skills.
• Working knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance and asset management principles.

In this role you would:

• Lead weekly monthly and annual maintenance work meetings to review priorities backlog and schedule adherence.
• Review and prioritize the maintenance backlog on a weekly basis using SAP. Hold routine backlog management meetings at cadence with area owners.
• Builds and schedules of weekly monthly and annual maintenance activities.
• Prints and builds work packets for assigned resources.
• Works with stores to ensure all materials are kitted and located for work activities weekly.
• Coordinate and track minor and major planned outage/turnaround activities including scope timelines contractor coordination and resources
• Helps oversee lockout/tagout procedures work permits and safe work practices for scheduled jobs.
• Works with area owners to understand critical priorities within areas of operation to meet the needs of the business.
• Escalate safety-critical or urgent notifications immediately to maintenance and operations leadership.
• Escalate work priorities to the planning group in effort to meet critical needs and dates.
• Monitors monthly maintenance and outage budgets tracking spends against plan targets.
• Work with site financial and purchasing manager to establish accurate order and material data.
• Ensure maintenance notifications and work requests are properly screened validated and prioritized before entering the planning queue.
• Ensure all work orders have proper scope operations materials and all order coding is correct before entering the schedule.
• Review maintenance KPIs such as schedule compliance backlog age PM completion rates confirmed technician hours for performance improvement.
• Take on minor areas of work planning responsibilities.
• Designate temporary coverage and maintain continuity of the work process during absences.