Maintenance Planner​/Scheduler

Location:

Pasadena, TX, US

Business Unit:
Fuel Cell & Stationary Catalysts

Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our enterprise functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved.

The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

The Maintenance Planner and Scheduler prepares maintenance work so it can be completed safely, efficiently, and with minimal disruption to production. The role turns approved work requests into complete job packages and builds realistic schedules based on equipment availability, job priority, materials, and available craft labor. The position supports equipment reliability by maintaining accurate work history and using technician feedback to improve future plans.

Review maintenance requests for a clear problem statement, correct equipment or functional location, and sufficient supporting information. Confirm scope and priority with Operations and Maintenance, identify duplicate or incomplete requests, and maintain accurate backlog status. Separate work awaiting scope, materials, approval, or equipment access from work that is ready to schedule.

Visit the job site and consult technicians to understand access, work sequence, equipment condition, and execution constraints. Develop job packages with task steps, drawings or references, tools, spare parts, services, and acceptance criteria. Identify permit, isolation, lifting, scaffolding, or other support requirements for review and execution by authorized site personnel.

Estimate task duration, craft requirements, crew size, and total labor hours. Distinguish elapsed duration from labor effort; for example, two technicians working four hours require eight labor hours. Account for task dependencies and specialty support, and validate unfamiliar work with experienced technicians or engineering before committing it to a schedule.

Confirm required part numbers, quantities, availability, and delivery dates with the Storeroom and Purchasing. Initiate or support reservations and purchase requests within assigned authority, track long-lead items, and coordinate contractor requirements. Verify that parts and services will be available before presenting a job as ready to schedule; route substitutions through the appropriate technical approval process.

Build and maintain a weekly schedule that matches ready work to available mechanical and I/E craft hours, production windows, and equipment access. Lead or support the scheduling meeting, resolve constraints with stakeholders, and publish the agreed schedule. Identify overloading, coordinate approved changes, and record reasons for work that is added, delayed, or carried over. Supervisors remain responsible for field assignments and execution.

Maintain complete and accurate work-order…