Maintenance Planner​/Scheduler - Berkeley, CA

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As a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler, you focus on organizing and scheduling maintenance activities to optimize equipment availability and performance; you prioritize maintenance tasks, coordinate resources, and ensure that necessary materials and spare parts are available; you work closely with maintenance and production teams to develop preventive maintenance strategies and use data analysis to enhance overall maintenance effectiveness; you plan, schedule, and coordinate maintenance, repair, and calibration activities on site to ensure work is executed safely, reliably, and efficiently in compliance with standard operating procedures;

you improve workforce productivity and quality through effective coordination of work scope, duration, parts, materials, equipment, suppliers, maintenance resources, production, and engineering.

• Plan, prepare, and schedule maintenance, repair, and calibration work by researching, scoping, and estimating labor, duration, materials, parts, tools, equipment, and external supplier requirements; prepare work order packages and maintain related SAP records;
• Coordinate spare parts and material readiness for planned, unplanned, and shutdown activities in close collaboration with the Maintenance Spare Parts group, including requisition creation and maintenance of BOMs and component lists;
• Develop, coordinate, track, and communicate plant shutdown and turnaround plans and schedules together with the Turnaround Manager, including progress updates and identification of critical path impacts, delays, acceleration, and compression opportunities;
• Coordinate and level maintenance resources across all site crafts and external vendors to support effective execution of planned work and alignment with site priorities;
• Ensure safety is fully integrated into maintenance planning and scheduling by defining safe work procedures, best practices, PPE, tools, equipment, and area requirements;
• Partner with Maintenance Operations, Technical System Owners, Production, Engineering, and vendors to prioritize, plan, and schedule preventive, corrective, repair, and calibration maintenance activities;
• Lead regular cross-functional meetings to establish short- and long-term priorities, coordinate routine maintenance and repair activities, and resolve resource or schedule conflicts;
• Maintain complete and accurate SAP data for parts, labor, duration, notifications, maintenance plans, and work history to support execution excellence and continuous improvement of planning and scheduling accuracy.

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

• Associate degree or equivalent certification with extensive work experience, or Bachelor’s degree with significant work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience in maintenance planning and scheduling;
• Expert knowledge of maintenance, calibration, and repair procedures, pharmaceutical plant operations, equipment schematics, manuals, procedures, and process and instrumentation diagrams to support effective maintenance planning, work scoping, scheduling,…