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Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in industrial maintenance planning and scheduling, with a strong focus on developing job packages, coordinating resources, and utilizing SAP PM for effective work order management. Proficient in translating field observations into actionable plans while ensuring safety and compliance.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Industrial Maintenance ExperienceSAP PM ProficiencyExcel SkillsMaintenance PlanningClear Communication
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Review maintenance requests for clear problem statements, correct equipment or functional locations, and sufficient supporting information
- Confirm scope and priority with Operations and Maintenance and maintain accurate backlog status
- Visit job sites and consult technicians to understand access, work sequence, equipment condition, and execution constraints
- Develop job packages with task steps, drawings or references, tools, spare parts, services, and acceptance criteria
- Identify permit, isolation, lifting, scaffolding, and other support requirements
- Estimate task duration, craft requirements, crew size, and total labor hours
- Confirm part numbers, quantities, availability, delivery dates, reservations, purchase requests, and contractor requirements
- Build and maintain weekly schedules matching ready work to craft hours, production windows, and equipment access
- Lead or support scheduling meetings, resolve constraints, publish schedules, and record schedule changes
- Maintain work-order planning data and review backlog and execution results in SAP PM using IW38 and IW47
- Follow up on missing actual hours, completion notes, and equipment history and support work-order closeout
- Coordinate preventive and predictive maintenance due dates with production and resource availability
- Support shutdown scope development, job packages, resource loading, sequencing, contractor coordination, and material readiness
- Maintain a forward look at major work and flag constraints early
Requirements
What you’ll need- Industrial maintenance experience with demonstrated responsibility for planning or scheduling work
- Practical understanding of manufacturing equipment, maintenance work methods, and coordination between mechanical and instrumentation/electrical crafts
- Experience translating field observations into clear job scope, labor estimates, material lists, and executable work packages
- Working knowledge of SAP PM or a comparable maintenance management system
- Ability to maintain work orders, review backlog, and interpret confirmation and work-history data
- Strong Excel skills for organizing work-order data, filtering and sorting backlogs, comparing planned and actual hours, and preparing resource-balanced weekly schedules
- Ability to read relevant drawings, manuals, and equipment information
- Understanding of maintenance safety planning, permit and isolation coordination, and the limits of the planner’s approval authority
- Clear written and verbal communication, accurate recordkeeping, and ability to manage competing deadlines
- Preferred: maintenance planning in a manufacturing or batch-process plant, hands-on craft experience, shutdown or turnaround coordination, and direct use of SAP PM including IW38 and IW47
- Familiarity with Microsoft Project, equipment BOMs, spare-parts planning, preventive maintenance optimization, and reliability measures is beneficial
- Relevant technical education or maintenance/reliability certification may strengthen a candidate’s profile
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive salary and benefits
- Collaborative work environment
- Inclusive work culture
- Equal opportunities for employees
- Opportunities to share ideas, develop expertise, and advance careers
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Hard Skills
Job Package DevelopmentWork Order ManagementLabor EstimationMaintenance Work MethodsEquipment Condition AssessmentTask Duration EstimationResource LoadingPreventive Maintenance OptimizationDrawing InterpretationSafety Planning
Soft Skills
Clear Written CommunicationRecordkeepingDeadline Management
Tools & Technologies
SAP PMMicrosoft Project
Certifications & Qualifications
Maintenance/Reliability Certification
Industry Keywords
Manufacturing EquipmentBatch-Process PlantShutdown CoordinationTurnaround CoordinationPreventive Maintenance