Summary
The Maintenance Scheduler is responsible for planning, coordinating, and scheduling preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities to maximize equipment reliability, availability, and operational efficiency. This role works closely with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Warehouse, Purchasing, and EHS teams to ensure maintenance resources, materials, and labor are effectively aligned with production requirements and business priorities. The Maintenance Scheduler develops and manages maintenance schedules, monitors work order execution and compliance, maintains accurate records within the CMMS, and tracks key performance indicators to drive continuous improvement. This position plays a critical role in reducing unplanned downtime, optimizing maintenance resources, supporting shutdown and turnaround activities, and ensuring all maintenance work is performed safely and in compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements.
Essential Functions
Develop, coordinate, and maintain preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance schedules to maximize equipment reliability and availability.
Review, prioritize, plan, and schedule maintenance work orders based on equipment criticality, resource availability, production requirements, and safety priorities.
Ensure the availability of labor, spare parts, tools, equipment, contractors, and technical documentation required to execute maintenance activities efficiently.
Monitor preventive maintenance schedules, track completion rates, and follow up on overdue work orders to ensure compliance with established maintenance plans.
Maintain and analyze the maintenance backlog, ensuring work orders are properly scoped, prioritized, planned, and ready for execution.
Collaborate with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Warehouse, Purchasing, and EHS teams to align maintenance activities with production schedules and operational priorities.
Maintain accurate maintenance records, work orders, equipment information, job plans, labor estimates, and spare parts data in the CMMS.
Support the planning, scheduling, and coordination of equipment shutdowns, major repairs, inspections, and turnaround activities.
Track KPIs, including schedule compliance, preventive maintenance compliance, backlog aging, work order completion, and equipment downtime. Prepare reports and recommend improvements.
Ensure maintenance work is planned in accordance with applicable safety procedures, environmental requirements, permit-to-work processes, lockout/tagout requirements, and company standards.
Identify opportunities to improve maintenance planning processes, reduce unplanned downtime, optimize maintenance resources, and increase equipment reliability.
Publish and communicate weekly and daily maintenance schedules, monitor execution progress, resolve scheduling conflicts, and adjust plans as operational priorities change.
All other duties as assigned.
Education
High school diploma required, Technical degree/certifications preferred
Experience
Minimum 2 years of transferrable experience required
Familiarity with MS Office software
Functional Success Drivers: These competencies are what we require for an individual to be successful in this role.
Strategic Skills
Independence
Results Oriented
Safety & Security
Self-Awareness
Team Player
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
The Company does not sponsor for employment-based visas for this position now or in the future.
Reasonable Accommodation Statement
To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities.
Signode is committed to providing equal opportunities to all qualified applicants, including providing reasonable accommodations during our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodation in applying for this position, please contact us at HRRecruiting@Signode.com.
The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.
Signode participates in E-Verify and will provide the Department of Homeland Security your Form I-9 information to confirm your authorization to work in the United States.
Signode Industrial Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
