What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Scheduler position at ARAUCO - North America?
Looking for a rewarding career with a company that values people, growth, sustainability, and teamwork? Join our team as a Maintenance Scheduler!
This role is onsite at our Duraflake manufacturing site and reports directly to the Maintenance Manager.
What We Are Looking For
This role is onsite at our Duraflake manufacturing site and reports directly to the Maintenance Manager.
What We Are Looking For
- 3–5 years of experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Experience with a CMMS/EAM system (e.g., SAP PM, Maximo).
- Strong planning, scheduling, and organizational skills; familiarity with MS Project a plus.
- Demonstrated leadership, facilitation, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Working knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance and asset management principles.
- Lead weekly, monthly and annual maintenance work meetings to review priorities, backlog, and schedule adherence.
- Review and prioritize the maintenance backlog on a weekly basis using SAP. Hold routine backlog management meetings at cadence with area owners.
- Builds and schedules of weekly, monthly and annual maintenance activities.
- Prints and builds work packets for assigned resources.
- Works with stores to ensure all materials are kitted and located for work activities weekly.
- Coordinate and track minor and major planned outage/turnaround activities, including scope, timelines, contractor coordination, and resources
- Helps oversee lockout/tagout procedures, work permits, and safe work practices for scheduled jobs.
- Works with area owners to understand critical priorities within areas of operation to meet the needs of the business.
- Escalate safety-critical or urgent notifications immediately to maintenance and operations leadership.
- Escalate work priorities to the planning group in effort to meet critical needs and dates.
- Monitors monthly maintenance and outage budgets, tracking spends against plan targets.
- Work with site financial and purchasing manager to establish accurate order and material data.
- Ensure maintenance notifications and work requests are properly screened, validated, and prioritized before entering the planning queue.
- Ensure all work orders have proper scope, operations, materials and all order coding is correct before entering the schedule.
- Review maintenance KPIs such as schedule compliance, backlog age, PM completion rates, confirmed technician hours for performance improvement.
- Take on minor areas of work planning responsibilities.
- Designate temporary coverage and maintain continuity of the work process during absences.