Maintenance Planner & Scheduler – Aerospace Materials

PPG; Shelby (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid vacation & holidays

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Disability/Leave

Job summary

PPG’s Aerospace Materials division in Shelby, NC seeks a Maintenance Planner & Scheduler to oversee planning, scheduling, and execution of preventive, predictive, and turnaround maintenance for a highly automated facility. You will coordinate with Operations, Engineering, Quality, EHS, and Production to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient maintenance, improving KPIs through Lean and TPM.

This is an on-site role reporting to the Asset Care & Maintenance Reliability Manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering technology, industrial technology, related technical discipline OR
• Minimum 5 years in maintenance, reliability or engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• Minimum 3 years dedicated maintenance planning and scheduling experience
• Experience within aerospace, chemical, pharmaceutical, specialty materials, defense or other highly regulated industries is required
• Experience with automated process equipment, PLCs, robotics, instrumentation, utilities and process systems
• Demonstrated success improving maintenance KPIs and execution discipline
• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply

Responsibilities

• Own the maintenance planning, scheduling, and work management process for all plant assets.
• Review, prioritize, and convert work requests into executable work orders with detailed labor, material, tooling, safety, and duration requirements.
• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance schedules aligned with production and operational priorities.
• Coordinate maintenance activities, equipment downtime, and contractor work with Operations, Engineering, Quality, EHS, Production, and other stakeholders.
• Manage EAMS data integrity, PM programs, asset hierarchies, maintenance backlogs, and material availability.
• Support shutdowns, outages, reliability improvement initiatives, root cause analyses, and reliability-centered maintenance programs.
• Monitor maintenance performance KPIs and drive continuous improvement through Lean, TPM, and maintenance best practices.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

Reliability experience

Lean / TPM

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering technology or related

Associate degree with extensive maintenance planning experience

Job description

Shelby, NC
Are you a passionate and driven Planning and Scheduling professional who is looking to take their career to new heights? Then look no further than this opportunity with PPG's Aerospace business! We are looking for someone who is able to see the future of aviation transparencies and take our exceptional products to the next level!

In the Maintenance Planner & Scheduler – Aerospace Materials role, you will be responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating and continuously improving all preventive, predictive, corrective and turnaround maintenance activities within a highly automated and regulated aerospace chemical manufacturing facility. The role is a key reliability function that ensures maintenance work is properly scoped, planned, kitted, resourced, scheduled and executed with minimal impact on operations, safety, quality and environmental compliance.

This is an On-site role reporting to the Shelby, NC facility. In this role you will report to Asset Care & Maintenance Reliability Manager.

Responsibilities

• Own the maintenance planning, scheduling, and work management process for all plant assets.
• Review, prioritize, and convert work requests into executable work orders with detailed labor, material, tooling, safety, and duration requirements.
• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance schedules aligned with production and operational priorities.
• Coordinate maintenance activities, equipment downtime, and contractor work with Operations, Engineering, Quality, EHS, Production, and other stakeholders.
• Manage EAMS data integrity, PM programs, asset hierarchies, maintenance backlogs, and material availability.
• Support shutdowns, outages, reliability improvement initiatives, root cause analyses, and reliability-centered maintenance programs.
• Monitor maintenance performance KPIs and drive continuous improvement through Lean, TPM, and maintenance best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering technology, industrial technology, related technical discipline OR
• Associate degree with extensive maintenance planning experience
• Minimum 5 years in maintenance, reliability or engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• Minimum 3 years dedicated maintenance planning and scheduling experience
• Experience within aerospace, chemical, pharmaceutical, specialty materials, defense or other highly regulated industries is required
• Experience with automated process equipment, PLCs, robotics, instrumentation, utilities and process systems
• Demonstrated success improving maintenance KPIs and execution discipline
• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply

PPG offers comprehensive benefits such as Health, Dental, Life, Retirement Plan, Paid Vacation & Holidays, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Disability/Leave, and other Voluntary benefit offerings. Actual benefit offerings confirmed at the time of hire.

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