Planner/Scheduler Maintenance CGS

Summary

Develops and maintains detailed project scopes and schedules to support planned overhauls and unit outages, and daily project and maintenance activities at a coal-fired, generating station. Plans and schedules all work for daily maintenance, taking work orders from initial requests to completion for all maintenance of boilers, turbines, major auxiliary equipment, railroad, and all plant facilities. Coordinated use of support crafts, contract labor, and equipment required in executing overhauls and daily maintenance. Establishes and administers preventive maintenance and predictive programs for all plant equipment.

What You'll Do

• Develops and maintains both project scope and master schedule for planned overhauls and unplanned/forced outages using both maintenance management system software (Maximo) and project management scheduling software (Primavera)
• Interfaces with maintenance supervisors, engineers, and project managers in the development of project scopes and schedules and in the daily monitoring and updating of outage reports.   
• Works collaboratively as a member of plant’s Project Controls Team providing project reports and updates to aid in identifying, evaluating, and resolving impacts to the project’s scope, schedule, and/or budget.
• Conducts daily/weekly overhaul coordination meetings with plant leadership, maintenance, engineering, and operations crews, in addition to visiting support crews and contractors.  
• Plans, organizes and schedules daily maintenance in support of maintenance crews, engineers, and technical services.
• Receives/generates work orders; Analyzes these for validity/priority and procures parts/materials for job. Schedules work to foreman via computerized system.
• Maintains records of overhaul history. Uses accumulated data to prepare routine and special reports to keep management informed of plant status.
• Provides warehousing with information required to maintain economically adequate levels of parts and materials.

Additional Responsibilites

• Monitors progress of regular, predictive and preventive maintenance in process. Amends schedule to accommodate emergency work.
• Coordinates work load and its progress between crafts, contractors, support equipment, engineering, quality control, inspectors and vendors.
• Provides reports to plant staff and Project Controls Team concerning generating preventive maintenance, backlog, status, outage process, etc.
• Monitors preventive maintenance program to assure proper coverage/frequency/adequacy. Modifies programs as required to minimize breakdowns.

What It Takes To Succeed

• Must possess a thorough working knowledge of Maximo maintenance management software, Primavera project management software, and MS Office (Excel)
• Knowledge of principles and practices of operation and maintenance related to coal fired steam/electric generating station.
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as presentation and customer interface skills
• Must be well organized with the ability to coordinate, prioritize, and execute multiple tasks simultaneously in a high pressure environment
• Ability to evaluate plant equipment and space parts requirements to maintain a complete inventory for overhauls; Plan work for contract labor.
• Ability to make quick decisions and follow them through to insure minimum down time in case of emergency outage.
• Ability to work from sketches, prints, and drawings

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in steam plant maintenance, planning/scheduling,  engineering, or operations. Steam plant experience in warehousing or purchasing may be acceptable if the applicant has successfully completed the operators trainee course.
• Experience with both Maximo maintenance management software and Primavera project management software required

Education