Maintenance Scheduler

Description

Title: Maintenance Scheduler

Status: Non-Exempt

Pay Grade: Hourly

Company:

With ten manufacturing facilities globally located in the US, UK, Italy, China, Japan, and India, and with over 2,000 employees, Carlisle Brake & Friction is the leading provider of high performance braking solutions to the off-highway, high performance racing, aerospace, and alternative energy markets, serving over 100 leading original equipment manufacturers in 55 countries. Carlisle Brake & Friction designs and manufactures a full solution set of braking products. These include:  dry disc caliper brakes, drum brakes and mechanical brakes for both service and park applications. Additionally, we manufacture both wet and dry friction materials used for wet brakes, brake linings, clutches, fuel cells, and transmissions. We also design and deliver hydraulic actuation, including hydraulic valves, master cylinders, adjustors, and boosted master cylinders. 

Reporting 

Primary Purpose  

The Maintenance Scheduler role is essential to ensure that maintenance activities are scheduled for completion by their due date. It requires prioritizing the work that is included in the Frozen Weekly Schedule and matching the capacities of resources and services to the workload. The position of the Maintenance Scheduler enables crew efficiency by appropriate grouping of work based on priority, equipment, trade, or service provider. The Maintenance Scheduler maintains an overview of progress against Weekly Schedule and supports the Maintenance Supervisor in decision making.

Responsibilities and Duties

This position will interface with the maintenance manager, reliability engineer, planner, and storeroom supervisor to incorporate Best Business Practices (BBP’s) in the area of scheduling.  This will include the development of at least one back up support person and the mentoring of a future Scheduler/Planner.

Primary Duties  

• Maintain a clear overview of the volume of prepared corrective maintenance backlog 

• and prioritize when to bring the work into the schedule for execution.

• Keep contact with the Planner and Maintenance Supervisor for job execution.

• Keep appraised of work execution constraints.

• Keep informed of available work center capacities and campaign periods, 

• highlighting upcoming constraints in time to mitigate them.

• Make suggestions on changes to trade mix to fit estimated work.

• Keep track of periods for specialist services.

• Keep track of work order priorities.

• Forecast work several weeks in advance by coordinating with Reliability Engineer, Planner, Storeroom Supervisor, Engineering and Operations.

• Keep appraised of longer-term plans, particularly in relation to equipment stops, 

• outages and shutdowns.

• Prepare draft schedule on basis of task contents, operational constraints and 

• corrective work order priorities.

• Obtain approval of schedule.

• Communicate the schedule.

• Facilitate the weekly scheduling meeting. 

• Update the weekly schedule based on Daily Maintenance meeting changes

• Train with Planner to support maintenance department as a backup Planner

• Gather data and produce reports as required by Maintenance Manager

• Review work order feedback from the trades regarding updates to task lists and maintenance plans and make suggestions to correct master data

• Participate/Facilitate in scheduling and shift crossover meetings

• Participate/Facilitate weekly team meetings where weekly KPI’s, action item status and maintenance performance are reviewed, and actions planned

• Complete daily, weekly, monthly reports as required

• Interface with Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Supervisor, Reliability Engineer, and Storeroom Supervisor to incorporate Best Business Practices (BBP’s)

• Keep files of daily production reports

• Review the corrective maintenance work request coming from production departments

• Ensure compliance of proper safety, quality, and environmental requirements in work

• Monthly 5S audits

Qualifications

The Maintenance Scheduler requires a good understanding of the planning & scheduling process, has good skills in the CMMS and is a highly organized individual. An industry background and experience of working in a trade discipline is desirable, but not essential. 

The Maintenance Scheduler should have:

• A minimum of five years’ experience in maintenance work and projects. 

• University degree and 2 years minimum experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance practices and principles

• Skill in the use of scheduling tools such as Gantt charts, PERT networks, CMMS scheduling module and resource histograms

• Skill in assessing and prioritizing work based on critical systems and equipment requirements, project commitments, age of work orders, resource availability, and customer satisfaction

• Skill in working with Supervisors to communicate priorities and assign resources required skill in using a maintenance scheduling system

• High level of skill in using the MVP Plant or equivalent CMMS software is preferred 

• University degree and 2 years minimum experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Effective team building and communication skills

• Ability to set priorities, work independently and coordinate multiple projects utilizing available resources

Relationship: Maintenance Manager

Location: Medina, OH (Medina Plant)

Education: High School Diploma

Requirements

 Must be willing and able to work mandatory overtime. 

Weekend shifts are required for this position.