Maintenance Planner/Scheduler
Job in
Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, California, 91362, USA
Listed on 2026-10-02
Listing for:
Lancesoft
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-02
Job specializations:
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Maintenance/Cleaning
Maintenance Manager, Industrial Maintenance, Facility Maintenance
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Improve maintenance work force productivity and work quality by eliminating in advance potential delays, defects and obstacles through proper planning and coordination of maintenance activities, spare parts, machine time, craft and labor needs, safety measures.
- Effective and efficient planning and scheduling of all maintenance work, including Calibrations, Liaise and coordinate between the manufacturing/production operations teams and maintenance organizations
- Plans, schedules, and coordinates maintenance and calibration activities in the plant in collaboration with operations and maintenance supervisors
- Effectively prioritizes current and emerging work activities
- Creates & maintains effective work plans based on field reviews and expertise and parts assessments
- Responsible to ensure accurate and effective CMMS data
- Monitors for problems and flow interrupters in the maintenance and calibration programs, and implements changes to lead performance and efficiency improvement
- Principal contact between the Maintenance department and the plant
- Receives approved work requests from requesting departments, excepting emergency work
- Reviews and screens each work request for completion.
- Discusses the details with the requestor as appropriate.
- Assures the work requested is needed and resolves appropriately
- Converts Work Requests into Work Orders.
- Examines jobs to be done and determines best way to accomplish the work.
- Consults with requester, Maintenance Supervisor, Engineering or functional crews when necessary.
- Obtains blueprints, drawings, instructional manuals and special procedures, as needed.
- Makes any additional sketches, diagrams, etc., necessary to clarify the intent of the work order.
- Identifies and obtains determinable materials and critical items, entering material needs on the work order.
- Ensures safety needs are given a top priority in work planning.
- Estimates jobs with sequence of steps, the number of tradespersons and required labor hours for each step.
- Estimates cost of each work order in terms of direct labor, materials required and total cost.
- Maintains backlog files of work orders waiting planning and/or scheduling in accordance with their priority limits with an estimated completion date.
- Verifies the availability of parts, materials and special tools required for job execution prior to scheduling.
- Identifies and generates each department s Preventive Maintenance workload.
- Reviews the schedule and labor availability forecasts weekly in preparation for the scheduling meeting
- Attends meetings with the Operations Planning department and participates in the overall plant scheduling of the following week s work, and negotiates for downtime windows during which maintenance can be performed.
- Finalizes schedules, ensuring that the work scheduled balances labor hours available so that a full day s work is provided each person.
- Recommends equipment to be included in preventive maintenance programs.
- Coordinates requisition of all predetermined parts, materials and special tools and ensures that equipment to be worked on will be available and ready.
- Arranges any safety permits such as for hot work, confined space entry, LOTO, etc.
- Assembles work packages and delivers to area maintenance supervisors.
- Ensure completed schedules and work orders are returned at the proper time.
- Review completed schedules and work orders submitted.
- Monitor work order progress.
- Provides all documents for reporting and closeout.
- Schedules weekly meetings with the operations supervisors and the maintenance supervisors to discuss schedule and short-term projections on maintenance needs.
- Develops a file of standard job plans for regularly recurring repair jobs.
- Reviews the actual labor expended versus estimated…
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