Maintenance Scheduler

Arauco; Albany (GA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Arauco in Albany, GA is seeking an experienced Maintenance Scheduler to coordinate and optimize maintenance activities at the Duraflake site. This onsite role reports to the Maintenance Manager and requires strong CMMS proficiency, planning discipline, and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities include backlog prioritization, weekly scheduling, outage coordination, and ensuring safe work practices. Candidates should have 3-5+ years in manufacturing and familiarity with SAP PM/Maximo.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Experience with CMMS/EAM systems (e.g., SAP PM, Maximo).
• Strong planning, scheduling, and organizational skills; MS Project familiarity is a plus.
• Demonstrated leadership, facilitation, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance and asset management principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead weekly, monthly and annual maintenance meetings to review priorities, backlog, and schedule adherence.
• Review and prioritize maintenance backlog weekly using SAP; hold cadence meetings with area owners.
• Build weekly, monthly and annual maintenance activity schedules.
• Prints and builds work packets for assigned resources.
• Coordinate and ensure materials are available for weekly work activities with stores.
• Coordinate minor and major planned outages/turnarounds: scope, timelines, contractor coordination, resources.
• Oversee lockout/tagout procedures, work permits, and safe work practices for scheduled jobs.
• Collaborate with area owners to understand critical priorities across operations.
• Escalate safety-critical or urgent notifications to maintenance/operations leadership.
• Escalate work priorities to planning group to meet critical needs and dates.
• Monitor monthly maintenance and outage budgets against plan targets.
• Work with site financial and purchasing to establish accurate order/material data.
• Ensure maintenance notifications and work requests are properly screened and prioritized before planning queue entry.
• Ensure all work orders have proper scope, operations, materials, and coding before scheduling.
• Review maintenance KPIs such as schedule compliance, backlog age, PM completion rates, and technician hours for performance improvement.
• Take on minor work planning responsibilities as needed.
• Designate temporary coverage to maintain continuity during absences.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Leadership

Cross-functional communication

Reliability-centered maintenance

Tools

SAP PM

Maximo

MS Project

Job description

Looking for a rewarding career with a company that values people, growth, sustainability, and teamwork? Join ourteam 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:

• 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.

In this role, you would:

• 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.