Maintenance Planner & Scheduler - Aerospace Materials

PPG Industries; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

Life Insurance

Retirement Plan

Vacation & Holidays

EAP

Disability Leave

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

PPG Industries is seeking a Maintenance Planner & Scheduler for Aerospace Materials at the Shelby, NC facility. The role focuses on planning, scheduling, coordinating and improving preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance to support a highly automated aerospace materials operation.

Responsibilities include developing maintenance schedules aligned with production priorities, managing work orders and data integrity, and driving continuous improvement using Lean and TPM.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in maintenance, reliability or engineering in a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 3 years dedicated maintenance planning and scheduling experience.
• Experience in aerospace, chemical, pharmaceutical or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience with automated process equipment, PLCs, robotics, instrumentation, utilities and process systems.
• U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, or eligible to work in the U.S.

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

Maintenance scheduling

Lean

TPM

Reliability

Cross-functional coordination

Data integrity

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering technology

Associate degree with maintenance planning experience

Tools

PLC systems

Robotics

Instrumentation

Process control systems

Job description

Maintenance Planner & Scheduler - Aerospace Materials

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

Benefits

• 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.

About us

PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD ®

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