Senior Facilities Maintenance Planner & Scheduler

BioSpace; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Afton Scientific is looking for a Senior Facilities Maintenance Planner-Scheduler to lead planning and scheduling for reliability and uptime in Charlottesville, VA. This role focuses on preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance across plant systems and utilities.

You will coordinate labor, materials, and resources, develop comprehensive maintenance plans, and drive continuous improvements with Operations, Engineering, and Facilities teams to minimize downtime and maximize efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, Industrial Technology, or related field.
• Minimum of eight years of maintenance planning and scheduling experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Experience planning maintenance activities involving rotating equipment, electrical systems, instrumentation, utilities, or process equipment.
• Experience supporting major shutdowns, turnarounds, and maintenance projects.
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication; ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed maintenance plans for preventive, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance activities.
• Review maintenance requests and convert approved work orders into executable work packages.
• Identify and coordinate required labor, materials, tools, equipment, permits, and contractor resources.
• Develop and maintain weekly, monthly, and annual maintenance schedules.
• Partner with Operations to coordinate maintenance activities while minimizing production disruptions.
• Prioritize maintenance activities based on safety, equipment reliability, regulatory requirements, and operational needs.
• Lead planning and scheduling for major plant shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages.
• Develop shutdown schedules, identify critical-path activities, and coordinate cross-functional planning meetings.
• Monitor maintenance schedules and implement recovery plans when necessary.
• Manage maintenance backlogs and ensure work orders are properly prioritized, planned, and completed.
• Maintain accurate planning and work-order information within the CMMS.
• Support maintenance resource planning and critical spare-parts availability.
• Develop and monitor maintenance KPIs.
• Prepare weekly and monthly maintenance performance reports for management.
• Forecast future maintenance workloads and resource requirements.
• Ensure maintenance planning activities comply with safety policies and regulatory requirements.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen equipment reliability, maintenance efficiency, and operational performance.

Skills

Organizational skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, Industrial Technology, or related field

Technical diploma or equivalent experience

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Afton Scientific is looking for a Senior Facilities Maintenance Planner-Scheduler to lead planning and scheduling for reliability and uptime in Charlottesville, VA. This role focuses on preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance across plant systems and utilities.

You will coordinate labor, materials, and resources, develop comprehensive maintenance plans, and drive continuous improvements with Operations, Engineering, and Facilities teams to minimize downtime and maximize efficiency.