Mechanical Maintenance Planner/Scheduler Professional II/Lead

Metallus; Canton (OH); On-site; USD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Metallus is sourcing a Mechanical Maintenance Planner/Scheduler to optimize maintenance planning and scheduling at our Canton, OH site. The role ensures a ready backlog of fully planned work orders with safe, efficient execution and accurate labor loading.

You will collaborate with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Reliability teams to drive improvements and reduce delays. Strong CMMS skills and engineering drawing proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience planning and scheduling in industrial maintenance environments.
• Ability to read and understand engineered drawings.
• CMMS experience with work orders and backlog management.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed job plans with materials, tools, and safety steps.
• Load and level planned work to match labor capacity and scheduling.
• Convert requests into fully planned work orders in CMMS.
• Collaborate with maintenance, operations, and engineering to improve processes.
• Support KPIs like schedule compliance, backlog health, and reliability.

Skills

Industrial maintenance

Reading engineered drawings

Hydraulics

Pneumatics

PLC

Motor drives

Maximo/CMMS

Microsoft Office

Communication

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Associate's degree in mechanical engineering/technology

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering/technology

Tools

Maximo/CMMS

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Mechanical Maintenance Planner/Scheduler Professional II/Lead

Location: Canton, OH, Faircrest Steel Plant (USA_FAIRCREST), 44706

Company: Metallus

Joining the Metallus team means becoming part of a legacy that dates back over a century. We are an industry leader, manufacturing the cleanest steel in the world for companies in the industrial, aerospace and defense, automotive, and energy markets.

Relocation will not be offered for this role.

Purpose

Steel manufacturing demands substantial asset investment, with annual maintenance costs exceeding one hundred million dollars. This role is key to lowering those costs and ensuring efficient use of our maintenance and contractor resources.
The role of the Planner/Scheduler is to improve workforce effectiveness and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through proactive planning and coordination of manpower, parts and materials, and equipment access. The position is responsible for planning future work; ensuring Manufacturing has a sufficient backlog of tasks that are fully planned, approved, and ready for execution; using personal experience and closed backlog to develop work plans that avoid potential delays and quality or safety issues; and scheduling work by loading labor hours and providing the workforce with sufficient assignments for their shifts.

Responsibilities

1. Job Plan Development

• Defines required materials, spare parts, special tools, and equipment necessary to execute work efficiently.
• Estimates labor hours and craft requirements using planning standards and experience.
• Builds task level job plans that clearly define work steps, safety considerations, quality requirements, and execution sequence.
• Assembles complete work packages including job plans, permits, drawings, lockout requirements, special instructions, and supporting documentation.
• Identifies and drives revisions to PMs, job plans, BOMs, and work instructions to improve future execution.

2. Scheduling

• Supports scheduling functions by loading and leveling planned work to available labor capacity.
• Schedules daily and weekly work in the scheduling tool for assigned areas of responsibility.
• Maintains outage and shutdown calendars; supports long range planning for major work and outages.
• Leads pre outage planning meetings and conducts post outage reviews ( AAR/6-Pack)to capture lessons learned and improve planning accuracy.

3. Work Planning and Backlog Management

• Converts approved service requests into fully planned work orders, ensuring correct asset hierarchy, failure codes, and cost charging in Maximo.
• Maintains a ready to work backlog, ensuring jobs are planned to a standard that supports safe, efficient execution without delays.
• Performs field walk downs to analyze job requirements, validate scope, and identify safety, access, tooling, and sequencing needs.
• Develops detailed job plans using BOMs, engineering drawings, historical data, and best practices.

4. Collaboration and Continuous Improvements

• Works closely with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and SMEs to resolve issues related to spare parts, BOM accuracy, asset data, and work procedures.
• Submits drawing updates and documentation changes to Engineering as required.
• Supports plant KPIs including EHS, quality, productivity, schedule compliance, backlog health, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Performs monthly LPA audits and supports Reliability Excellence standards.
• Additional responsibilities are defined in the Reliability Excellence RACI documents.
• Coordinate predictive maintenance scheduling, compliance, driving corrective actions to mitigate equipment risk and unplanned failures and increase reliability.
• Submits purchase requests for materials and services to perform planned work.

Technical Skills

• Familiarity with industrial maintenance and exposure to work planning and order prioritization techniques.
• Ability to read and understand engineered drawings.
• Trained on industrial systems: hydraulics, pneumatics, PLC, motor drives, power distribution.
• Solid understanding of equipment assemblies, systems engineering, and maintenance best practices.
• Prior knowledge of Maximo or CMMS.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Functional knowledge on equipment assemblies and systems engineering.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED with a minimum 7 years of craftsmanship or supervisor experience in planning and scheduling work or experience with CMMS systems for work orders.
• Associate's degree in mechanicalengineering, technology, or related degree with a minimum 4 years of craftsmanship or supervisor experience in planning and scheduling work or experience with CMMS systems for work orders.
• Bachelor's degree in mechanicalengineering, technology, or related degree with a minimum 2 years of craftsmanship or supervisor experience in planning and scheduling work or experience with CMMS systems for work orders.

Preferred Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED with a minimum 12years of craftsmanship or supervisor experience in planning and scheduling work or experience with CMMS systems for work orders.
• Associate's degree in mechanical engineering, technology, or related degree with a minimum 9 years of craftsmanship or supervisor experience in planning and scheduling work or experience with CMMS systems for work orders.
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, technology, or related degree with a minimum 7 years of craftsmanship or supervisor experience in planning and scheduling work or experience with CMMS systems for work orders.

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