Maintenance Planner / Scheduler

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The Position

Are you a detail-oriented problem solver with a passion for keeping things running smoothly? As a Maintenance Planner / Scheduler , you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our operations run efficiently and effectively. Working directly with management and collaborating across teams, you'll take charge of planning and scheduling maintenance activities to minimize downtime, optimize productivity, and ensure compliance with regulatory and customer requirements. From coordinating resources and materials to driving proactive solutions that enhance system reliability, you'll be at the heart of operations while contributing to a culture of continuous improvement. If you're ready to leverage your maintenance expertise, organizational skills, and technical knowledge, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic team where your contributions make a real impact everyday!

The Opportunity

Working directly with management, the Maintenance Planner / Scheduler plans, prepares, and issues work order schedules to ensure minimum downtime and maximum productivity. They advise management on material availability and potential scheduling issues to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials, and services are provided as needed. Additionally, they plan labor, materials, services, tools, and obtain the necessary permits for maintenance personnel to perform work per regulatory or customer requirements.

The planner understands and applies the fundamental concepts of maintenance planning and scheduling. They use intermediate skills and may develop advanced skills appropriate for the position, requiring some evaluation, originality, or ingenuity. The work is varied and can be somewhat challenging. The planner contributes independently or within a team towards a program or departmental goal or service and interfaces with internal customers and departments as well as external service providers. They may assist lower-level staff by providing technical advice and guidance. The planner is responsible for maintaining and continuously improving the quality system and achieving quality objectives through daily actions.

• Reviewing all planned work requests for the assigned area and determining the validity and accuracy of information; engaging appropriate resources to set a preliminary priority.
• Updating equipment database, spare parts, and bill of materials information as required.
• Ensuring accurate data history for analysis and generating key performance indicators.
• Assembling (kit, stage, etc.) work packages to the level of detail required to execute the work.
• Working with the Spare Parts team to purchase or requisition parts and define min / max spare part levels.
• Analyzing corrective maintenance work orders and generating proactive preventive maintenance activities.
• Procuring service proposals and creating service work purchase orders, managing budget allocation.
• Managing small CAPEX projects and / or major maintenance projects for technical facilities.
• Escalating issues to the Technical Facilities Lead for work that is high priority and / or compliance-related.
• Scoping jobs to obtain and organize all information required for crafts to perform work and to develop and continuously improve job plans (standard operating procedures, work instructions). This could include the time to perform the job, drawings, vendor manuals, supplemental instructional materials, special procedures, and other appropriate material.
• Working with the Technical Lead to determine resource availability.
• Communicating schedules to all resources : maintenance, production, outside services, stores, and engineering.
• Keeping accurate metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and providing timely reports to management.

Managing reliability-based maintenance (creating team preventive maintenance for infrared, vibration analysis, lubrication, etc.).

Who you are

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / ATTRIBUTES (required) : The minimum education, knowledge, experience, skills and attributes required to perform the essential functions of this job.

This position is not eligible for relocation.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Indiana is $65,100 - $120,900 USD Annual. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100'000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let's build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.

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