Maintenance Planner/Scheduler - Berkeley, CA

Bayer AG; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayer seeks a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler in Berkeley, CA to plan, schedule, and coordinate maintenance, calibration, and shutdown activities across a pharmaceutical facility. You will partner with maintenance, engineering, and production teams to optimize equipment availability, with emphasis on safety and adherence to cGMP and SOPs.

The role requires SAP expertise, strong planning skills, and a collaborative mindset to maintain accurate data, drive continuous improvements, and ensure

Qualifications

• Associate degree with extensive work experience, or Bachelor’s degree with significant related experience.
• Expert knowledge of maintenance planning, scheduling, and plant operations.
• Knowledge of cGMPs, ISO standards, and industry best practices.
• Proficiency in SAP and MS Office suite.
• Strong communication and coordination across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare, and schedule maintenance, repair, and calibration work.
• Coordinate spare parts and BOM management with Maintenance Spare Parts group.
• Develop, track, and communicate plant shutdown and turnaround plans.
• Coordinate resources across site crafts and external vendors.
• Maintain SAP data for parts, labor, duration, and work history.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Planning & scheduling

Communication

Prioritization

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Bachelor’s degree with significant related experience

Professional certification in planning/scheduling (PMI-SP, AACE)

Tools

SAP

MS Office

MS Project

MS Access

Job description

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At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

As a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler, you focus on organizing and scheduling maintenance activities to optimize equipment availability and performance; you prioritize maintenance tasks, coordinate resources, and ensure that necessary materials and spare parts are available; you work closely with maintenance and production teams to develop preventive maintenance strategies and use data analysis to enhance overall maintenance effectiveness; you plan, schedule, and coordinate maintenance, repair, and calibration activities on site to ensure work is executed safely, reliably, and efficiently in compliance with standard operating procedures; you improve workforce productivity and quality through effective coordination of work scope, duration, parts, materials, equipment, suppliers, maintenance resources, production, and engineering.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan, prepare, and schedule maintenance, repair, and calibration work by researching, scoping, and estimating labor, duration, materials, parts, tools, equipment, and external supplier requirements; prepare work order packages and maintain related SAP records;
• Coordinate spare parts and material readiness for planned, unplanned, and shutdown activities in close collaboration with the Maintenance Spare Parts group, including requisition creation and maintenance of BOMs and component lists;
• Develop, coordinate, track, and communicate plant shutdown and turnaround plans and schedules together with the Turnaround Manager, including progress updates and identification of critical path impacts, delays, acceleration, and compression opportunities;
• Coordinate and level maintenance resources across all site crafts and external vendors to support effective execution of planned work and alignment with site priorities;
• Ensure safety is fully integrated into maintenance planning and scheduling by defining safe work procedures, best practices, PPE, tools, equipment, and area requirements;
• Partner with Maintenance Operations, Technical System Owners, Production, Engineering, and vendors to prioritize, plan, and schedule preventive, corrective, repair, and calibration maintenance activities;
• Lead regular cross-functional meetings to establish short- and long-term priorities, coordinate routine maintenance and repair activities, and resolve resource or schedule conflicts;
• Maintain complete and accurate SAP data for parts, labor, duration, notifications, maintenance plans, and work history to support execution excellence and continuous improvement of planning and scheduling accuracy.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Associate degree or equivalent certification with extensive work experience, or Bachelor’s degree with significant work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience in maintenance planning and scheduling;
• Expert knowledge of maintenance, calibration, and repair procedures, pharmaceutical plant operations, equipment schematics, manuals, procedures, and process and instrumentation diagrams to support effective maintenance planning, work scoping, scheduling, and plant shutdown execution;
• Documented knowledge of cGMPs, ISO standards, and industry best practices;
• Experience in maintenance planning, work scoping, scheduling, turnaround coordination, and project management, including defining materials, labor, duration, tools, equipment, supplier, and area requirements for maintenance activities;
• Proficiency in SAP and strong computer skills, including MS Office, MS Project, and MS Access;
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and influence effectively across manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, and production functions;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills combined with strong planning, scheduling, organizational, and prioritization skills;
• Ability to shift priorities, manage multiple activities simultaneously, and perform effectively under pressure while meeting schedule commitments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional certification in a planning/scheduling field (for example, PMI-SP, AACE-CST, AACE-PSP, IFMA-CFM, IFMA-FMP).

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $96,480.00 - $144,720.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 10/3/2026.

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YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to.

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