Planner/Scheduler Professional II

Responsibilities

• Job Plan Development
• Defines required materials, spare parts, special tools, and equipment necessary to execute work efficiently.
• Estimates labor hours and craft requirements using planning standards and experience.
• Buils task level job plans that clearly define work steps, safety considerations, quality requirements, and execution sequence.
• Assembles complete work packages including job plans, permits, drawings, lockout requirements, special instructions, and supporting documentation.
• Identifies and drives revisions to PMs, job plans, BOMs, and work instructions to improve future execution.
• Scheduling
• Supports scheduling functions by loading and leveling planned work to available labor capacity.
• Schedules daily and weekly work in the scheduling tool for assigned areas of responsibility.
• Maintains outage and shutdown calendars; supports long range planning for major work and outages.
• Leads pre outage planning meetings and conducts post outage reviews (AAR/6-Pack) to capture lessons learned and improve planning accuracy.
• Work Planning and Backlog Management
• Converts approved service requests into fully planned work orders, ensuring correct asset hierarchy, failure codes, and cost charging in Maximo.
• Maintains a ready to work backlog, ensuring jobs are planned to a standard that supports safe, efficient execution without delays.
• Performs field walk downs to analyze job requirements, validate scope, and identify safety, access, tooling, and sequencing needs.
• Develops detailed job plans using BOMs, engineering drawings, historical data, and best practices.
• Collaboration and Continuous Improvements
• Works closely with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and SMEs to resolve issues related to spare parts, BOM accuracy, asset data, and work procedures.
• Submits drawing updates and documentation changes to Engineering as required.
• Supports plant KPIs including EHS, quality, productivity, schedule compliance, backlog health, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Performs monthly LPA audits and supports Reliability Excellence standards.
• Additional responsibilities are defined in the Reliability Excellence RACI documents.
• Coordinate predictive maintenance scheduling, compliance, driving corrective actions to mitigate equipment risk and unplanned failures and increase reliability.
• Submits purchase requests for materials and services to perform planned work.

Qualifications

• High School/GED with a minimum 7 years of craftsmanship or supervisor experience in planning and scheduling work or experience with CMMS systems for work orders.
• Associate's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, technology, or related degree with a minimum 4 years of craftsmanship or supervisor experience in planning and scheduling work or experience with CMMS systems for work orders.
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, technology, or related degree with a minimum 2 years of craftsmanship or supervisor experience in planning and scheduling work or experience with CMMS systems for work orders.