Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

Eaton's EPG CHD EP Americas division is currently seeking a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler. The hourly rate for this position is $31.93 after 45 days $35.92 after 90 days $39.91 per hour. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Position Overview

Eaton's Electrical Sector is currently seeking a 1st Shift Maintenance Planner & Scheduler to join our team. This position is based at our Amarillo, TX facility. The Maintenance Planner & Scheduler is responsible for planning, coordinating, and scheduling maintenance activities to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and maximize workforce productivity in a manufacturing environment. This position works collaboratively with Operations, Maintenance Supervisors, Reliability personnel and MRO personnel to ensure maintenance work is properly planned, resourced, scheduled, and executed safely and efficiently.

The Planner & Scheduler is responsible for developing detailed maintenance work packages, optimizing maintenance resources, managing maintenance schedules, and ensuring work execution aligns with the company policies, and plant operational requirements.

Maintenance Planning

In this function you will:

• Review, prioritize, validate and approve maintenance work requests.
• Develop detailed work plans for preventive, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance activities.
• Define labor requirements, work assignments, estimated labor hours, materials, tools, special equipment, permits, and contractor resources.
• Create comprehensive job packages that include:
• Safety requirements and LOTO procedures
• Equipment drawings and specifications
• Material and parts requirements
• Standard work instructions
• Required permits and environmental controls
• Ensure all planned work complies with plant safety standards, environmental regulations, and applicable labor agreements.
• Maintain and continuously improve job plans within the CMMS.

Scheduling & Workforce Coordination

• Develop weekly and daily maintenance schedules in collaboration with Operations and Maintenance leadership.
• Coordinate maintenance activities while adhering provisions regarding job classifications, overtime assignments, call-ins, and craft jurisdiction.
• Optimize utilization of union craft resources while maintaining schedule compliance and equipment reliability objectives.
• Facilitate weekly scheduling meetings with Operations, Maintenance Supervisors, Reliability personnel, and leadership as appropriate.
• Coordinate plant outages, planned shutdowns, capital projects, and major maintenance activities.
• Manage schedule adjustments resulting from emergency or breakdown work.

Work Management

• Maintain an efficient and manageable maintenance backlog.
• Ensure work orders are properly prioritized using established plant work management processes.
• Monitor work order execution and closure performance.
• Verify labor hours, failure coding, material usage, and completion notes are accurately documented.
• Support continuous improvement of maintenance planning and execution processes.
• Facilitate post-job reviews for significant maintenance activities.

Materials & Resource Coordination

• Coordinate with MRO personnel to ensure parts, materials, and specialized tools are available before scheduled work.
• Identify critical spare parts requirements and inventory risks.
• Assist in spare parts optimization initiatives.
• Coordinate external contractors and specialty service providers when required.
• Ensure contractor work is properly planned and integrated into the maintenance schedule.

Reliability & Continuous Improvement

• Support plant reliability initiatives to improve asset performance and reduce reactive maintenance.
• Partner with Reliability Engineers and maintenance personnel to improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations.
• Identify opportunities to increase planned work and reduce emergency maintenance.
• Utilize maintenance performance data to drive continuous improvement efforts.

Safety & Regulatory Compliance

• Integrate safety requirements into all maintenance work plans.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA regulations, environmental requirements, company safety policies, and union safety provisions.
• Promote safe work practices and proactive hazard identification.
• Support plant safety initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED from an accredited institution
• Minimum 5 years of maintenance experience within a heavy industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, supervision, reliability, or maintenance leadership preferred.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of (enter location) will be considered. Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

Preferred qualifications:

• Associate degree in Industrial Maintenance, Mechanical Technology, Electrical Technology, Engineering Technology, or related field preferred.
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, hydraulic, pneumatic, and rotating equipment systems.
• Experience with CMMS software such as Fluke E-MAint, Maximo, Infor EAM, or equivalent.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Outlook, and Teams.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP)
• Certified Planner & Scheduler (where applicable)
• Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma certification
• Experience with predictive maintenance technologies

Skills

Position Criteria:

• Ability to stand and/or walk for 8-10 hours and to lift 50 pounds
• Understanding and ability to follow moderately technical standards and maintenance procedures as well as use precision gauging instruments and apply basic math skills
• Ability to follow all safety regulations associated
• Understand and utilize the procedures related to lockout/tagout, confined spaces, and fall protection
• Ability to provide insight into planning and strategic process flow
• Ability to read, create, and communicate reports from material moving process
• Ability to work around molten metal and in a production environment that is hot and subject to unexpected swings of overtime (ability to flex personal schedule to cover tasks on other shifts)
• Ability to work proactively and communicate effectively while working with all employees throughout plant
• Ability to perform basic computer functions: use SAP, eSafety, MESH Prism