Maintenance Planner and Scheduler
About the role
North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) provides vital wholesale water, wastewater and solid waste management services to more than two million people who call North Texas their home. Our culture is deeply ingrained in our core values of Integrity, Trust, Respect, Unity, Service, and Teamwork (ITRUST). Our employees will tell you they feel a sense of purpose and have a daily opportunity to make a positive impact on the cities we serve by helping to provide services that their residents and businesses need to thrive.
The Maintenance Planner and Scheduler is responsible for establishing, maintaining, executing, and improving all elements of a planning and scheduling process in pursuit of safe, efficient, and effective maintenance practices for the purpose of achieving desired levels of service at acceptable levels of risk for the assigned division(s). The overriding purpose of this position is increasing plant reliability, cost effectiveness and reducing the risk of operational failure.
Responsibilities
- Works collaboratively with Maintenance Tradesmen, Plant Operators, Plant Supervisors, and Asset Risk Managers to define and guide work programs aimed at cost-effectively reducing asset failure risk and increasing plant reliability.
- Takes direction from Asset Risk Managers on ensuring that planned work advances asset management objectives.
- Prioritizes preventive and corrective work backlog based on process criticality, equipment redundancy, and ability to reduce asset failure risk.
- Conducts field inspections and determines appropriate job scopes.
- Develops work plans for maintenance jobs with necessary and specific information to allow quality scheduling, assignment, and