Press Maintenance Planner​/Scheduler

Who We Are:

Challenge Manufacturing’s mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day;

they are the true driving force in our operations.

Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program. This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time ng part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge’s success!

Challenge is #Quality Driven and #People Powered!

Who We Want The Maintenance Planner / Scheduler is responsible for developing, coordinating, and continuously improving maintenance work planning and scheduling systems that support safe operations, regulatory compliance, equipment reliability, and plant performance. This position serves as a subject matter expert in the CMMS / ERP maintenance system (Plex preferred) and drives work execution through disciplined planning, weekly scheduling, backlog management, job package development, and maintenance process improvement.

This role requires a technically strong, organized, and collaborative professional who can work effectively across Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Production, Contractors, and Stores / MRO functions to ensure maintenance work is planned efficiently and executed with high schedule compliance and minimal disruption to operations. The position is expected to support a world-class maintenance system by improving work order quality, communication, wrench time, backlog control, failure elimination, and asset performance.

What You'll DoCore Planning & Scheduling Responsibilities Plan and schedule preventive, predictive, corrective, routine, shutdown, outage, and identified improvement work for production equipment, utility systems, and facility infrastructure to maintain safe operating conditions, regulatory compliance, and equipment availability.

Ensure planning is completed before scheduling by verifying scope, labor requirements, craft needs, permits, lockout considerations, parts availability, tooling, access requirements, drawings, procedures, and estimated labor hours.

Build complete job packages for planned work, including work order scope, sequence of work, safety requirements, permits, drawings / manuals, BOM or parts list, special tools, contractor requirements, labor estimates by craft, downtime requirements, and closeout expectations.

Develop and maintain a weekly maintenance schedule with appropriate labor loading, skill alignment, equipment availability, and work-priority considerations.

Schedule work to approximately 100% of available labor hours while preserving flexibility for urgent or reactive work through the deliberate use of interruptible tasks and priority-based scheduling logic.

Coordinate planning and scheduling activities for internal crafts, contractors, and third-party maintenance service providers.

CMMS / ERP / Data Management Utilize and maintain CMMS / ERP system data to support high-quality maintenance planning, scheduling, tracking, reporting, and work history documentation.

Review, prioritize, and convert work requests into effective work orders with clear scope, labor…