Maintenance PlannerScheduler Berkeley, CA

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Maintenance Planner/Scheduler - Berkeley CA

As a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler you focus on organizing and scheduling maintenance activities to optimize equipment availability and performance; you prioritize maintenance tasks coordinate resources and ensure that necessary materials and spare parts are available; you work closely with maintenance and production teams to develop preventive maintenance strategies and use data analysis to enhance overall maintenance effectiveness; you plan schedule and coordinate maintenance repair and calibration activities on site to ensure work is executed safely reliably and efficiently in compliance with standard operating procedures; you improve workforce productivity and quality through effective coordination of work scope duration parts materials equipment suppliers maintenance resources production and engineering.

• Plan prepare and schedule maintenance repair and calibration work by researching scoping and estimating labor duration materials parts tools equipment and external supplier requirements; prepare work order packages and maintain related SAP records;
• Coordinate spare parts and material readiness for planned unplanned and shutdown activities in close collaboration with the Maintenance Spare Parts group including requisition creation and maintenance of BOMs and component lists;
• Develop coordinate track and communicate plant shutdown and turnaround plans and schedules together with the Turnaround Manager including progress updates and identification of critical path impacts delays acceleration and compression opportunities;
• Coordinate and level maintenance resources across all site crafts and external vendors to support effective execution of planned work and alignment with site priorities;
• Ensure safety is fully integrated into maintenance planning and scheduling by defining safe work procedures best practices PPE tools equipment and area requirements;
• Partner with Maintenance Operations Technical System Owners Production Engineering and vendors to prioritize plan and schedule preventive corrective repair and calibration maintenance activities;
• Lead regular cross-functional meetings to establish short- and long-term priorities coordinate routine maintenance and repair activities and resolve resource or schedule conflicts;
• Maintain complete and accurate SAP data for parts labor duration notifications maintenance plans and work history to support execution excellence and continuous improvement of planning and scheduling accuracy.

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

• Associate degree or equivalent certification with extensive work experience or Bachelors degree with significant work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience in maintenance planning and scheduling;
• Expert knowledge of maintenance calibration and repair procedures pharmaceutical plant operations equipment schematics manuals procedures and process and instrumentation diagrams to support effective maintenance planning work scoping scheduling and plant shutdown execution;
• Documented knowledge of cGMPs ISO standards and industry best practices;
• Experience in maintenance planning work scoping scheduling turnaround coordination and project management including defining materials labor duration tools equipment supplier and area requirements for maintenance activities;
• Proficiency in SAP and strong computer skills including MS Office MS Project and MS Access;
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and influence effectively across manufacturing engineering maintenance and production functions;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills combined with strong planning scheduling organizational and prioritization skills;
• Ability to shift priorities manage multiple activities simultaneously and perform effectively under pressure while meeting schedule commitments.

• Professional certification in a planning/scheduling field (for example PMI-SP AACE-CST AACE-PSP IFMA-CFM IFMA-FMP).

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $96480.00 - $144720.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care vision dental retirement PTO sick leave etc.

This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicants location market data/ranges an applicants skills and prior relevant experience certain degrees and certifications and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 10/3/2026.

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