Sr. Planning & Scheduling Associate I - Maintenance Reliability

About This RoleThe Sr. Planning and Scheduling Associate, I, will be a pivotal part of our team, ensuring the efficient planning, scheduling, and execution of maintenance activities for all assets (GMP and non-GMP) that fall under the responsibility of the Research Triangle Park (RTP) Bio Maintenance and Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) departments. Your expertise will be instrumental in enhancing workforce productivity and quality execution of maintenance activities by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through effective planning, scheduling, and coordination of Maintenance/I&C resources, parts, materials, equipment access, and necessary documentation. The Sr. Planning and Scheduling Associate I, has strong knowledge of Work Management, working in a GMP facility and Safety standards to provide support to Maintenance/I&C, and Engineering staffs and contractors. Additionally, this individual has a solid understanding of mechanical, electrical and instrumentation system and equipment used in biotech manufacturing facilities, and function as a contact for all maintenance/I&C planning and scheduling activities, requests, and issues.What You'll DoResponsible for strategically planning, scheduling and coordinating execution of all preventive and corrective maintenance activities within the Computerize Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to maximize the department’s efficiency and productivity while minimizing interruptions to manufacturing operations.Regularly review maintenance work orders, practices and documentation to identify opportunities for improvement.Collaborate with Engineers to review and optimize equipment JPs, PMs to improve equipment reliability.Plan and coordinate End of Life (EoL) inspections with Production planning, Manufacturing, Maintenance and contractors; developing work packages, aligning resource availability with production schedules and establish maintenance schedules for work.Prioritize work orders by identifying urgent requests and aligning them with equipment, spares and resource availability, emphasizing input from Manufacturing, Production planning, Maintenance, I&C, and operations team.Participates in shutdown planning activities such as scope development, planning, scheduling, work prep, risk assessment, progress reporting and postmortem.Ensure all maintenance activities comply with safety, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and environmental standards and requirements.