Maintenance Scheduler

Career Opportunities: Maintenance Scheduler (30422)

Requisition ID 30422-Posted - United States - Albany, OR - Maintenance (Electrical & Mechanical) and Reliability - No

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:

• 3–5+ 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.