Maintenance Planner​/Scheduler

Location: Rockville, Maryland
Job Type: Full-time
Company: Francis O. Day Co., Inc.
Company Address: 850 East Gude Drive, suite A, Rockville, MD 20850
Company Phone Number: x110
Position: Maintenance Planner/Scheduler
Pay Range: $55,000 - $105,000 (Depending on experience and qualifications)

The Planner/Scheduler coordinates the planning and scheduling process and oversees the development of the planning systems. The Planner/Scheduler will maximize the efficiency of maintenance work performed by ensuring that work orders have been thoroughly analyzed to determine the exact scope of the job. He/she will ensure that the necessary resources have been identified and are staged and ready for job execution before scheduling and starting work.

• Confirms the necessity of outsourcing maintenance activities, ensures the correct cost center is charged, and monitors appropriate staffing levels.
• They function as a backup to your Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) administrator for (E360).
• Ensures all accepted work orders are reviewed, prioritized and have a detailed work plan consisting of the required manpower, skill sets, duration, safety procedures, tools, materials, equipment, permits, and specifications.
• Creates job plans for maintenance work orders that include craft skills, parts, tools, equipment, information, permits, and expertise (internal, external, equipment) required.
• Develops job standards to ensure work is performed within acceptable and optimal limits and meets all safety, environmental, and compliance requirements.
• Uses previous experience, CMM history, and subject matter experts to determine manpower requirements and length of time needed to execute a work order.
• Creates and maintains equipment files with standard job packages, including accurate and complete Bills of Material (BOM) and any relevant technical information to ensure continual improvement of planned work execution.
• Facilitates routine cross‑functional planning meetings with assigned business units to review the CMMS backlog and verifies work priorities for the upcoming weekly schedule. Coordinate upcoming maintenance work with the production schedule to ensure access to equipment at the agreed‑upon time.
• Develops, maintains, and reports on key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to the planning process, such as schedule compliance, planning accuracy, backlog aging, and budgetary compliance.
• Optimizes the Preventive Maintenance (PM) program by evaluating task lists, part requirements, and frequencies, with input from maintenance technicians, supervisors, and operations managers.
• Coordinates with the Equipment Manager on decisions to send components out for refurbishment.
• Works with your storeroom team to establish minimum/maximum stock levels, discuss additions and removals of items from stock, creation of job kits, and requests for capital spares.
• Develop detailed daily and weekly schedules for the maintenance supervisor.
• Develops a two‑week forward plan.
• Develops a four‑week PM plan forecast.
• Serves as co‑chairperson for the weekly scheduling meeting.
• Develop detailed schedules and track the progress of all maintenance and fabrication work.
• Assist and support Total Process Reliability (TPR) on improvement initiatives.

• The Planner makes independent decisions within their defined areas of responsibility. The decisions made by the Planner on a daily basis will provide the means to improve the efficiency of maintenance resources, lower maintenance costs, and improve plant reliability and uptime.
• The Planner decides which recurring maintenance problems merit a Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) or other reliability assessment.
• The Planner decides how to bring off‑target key performance indicators (KPIs) back into acceptable ranges and works with the Equipment Manager to do so.
• The Planner makes decisions about resources (contractors, overtime) needed to manage the backlog.

• 2-4 years maintenance planning experience.
• Ability to lead through influence and persuasion.
• Technical expertise in the areas of equipment and multiple maintenance crafts, as well as the ability to…