Maintenance Scheduler: Plant Planning & Reliability Lead

ARAUCO - North America; Albany (OR); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

ARAUCO - North America is seeking a Maintenance Scheduler at our Duraflake site, reporting to the Maintenance Manager. This onsite role focuses on coordinating preventive maintenance, backlog prioritization, and effective communication with area owners.

You will lead weekly and monthly maintenance meetings, manage SAP/Maximo work orders, ensure proper planning data, and monitor KPIs such as schedule compliance and PM completion rates to improve reliability.

Qualifications

• 3+ 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; MS Project 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 work meetings to review priorities, backlog, and schedule adherence.
• Review and prioritize the maintenance backlog on a weekly basis using SAP and hold routine backlog meetings 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 with scope, timelines, contractor coordination, and resources.
• Oversee lockout/tagout procedures, work permits, and safe work practices for scheduled jobs.
• Collaborate with area owners to understand critical priorities within areas of operation to meet business needs.
• Escalate safety-critical or urgent notifications to maintenance and operations leadership.
• Escalate work priorities to the planning group to meet critical needs and dates.
• Monitor monthly maintenance and outage budgets, tracking spends against plan targets.
• Collaborate with site financial and purchasing 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.

Skills

Scheduling

CMMS/ERP

SAP PM

Maximo

MS Project

Leadership

Planning

Tools

SAP PM

Maximo

MS Project

Job description

ARAUCO - North America is seeking a Maintenance Scheduler at our Duraflake site, reporting to the Maintenance Manager. This onsite role focuses on coordinating preventive maintenance, backlog prioritization, and effective communication with area owners.

You will lead weekly and monthly maintenance meetings, manage SAP/Maximo work orders, ensure proper planning data, and monitor KPIs such as schedule compliance and PM completion rates to improve reliability.