Maintenance Planner/Scheduler (Washington, NJ)

Now hiring! Maintenance Planner/Scheduler (Washington, NJ)

 

Washington, New Jersey.

 

 

We are looking for a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler to join our Care Chemicals team in Washington, NJ.

 

Come create chemistry with us!

 

BASF’s Care Chemicals division is a globally leading supplier to the cosmetics, detergents, and cleaner industries. We also offer solutions for technical applications, crop protection and plant nutrition. Together with our customers, we create innovative solutions to meet the current and future needs of society more sustainably.

 

As a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler, you will play a vital role in driving efficient maintenance processes at the site. In this role, you will act as the key liaison between the Maintenance and Production teams, along with other supporting departments, to guarantee that internal customers receive timely, efficient, and high-quality service.

As a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler (Washington, NJ), you create chemistry by...

 

 

• Ensuring timely and quality service for internal customers by maintaining awareness of site conditions, timely adjustments to maintenance schedules, and proactive maintenance initiatives that enhance equipment reliability and support production goals.
• Supporting and adhering to the principles of the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care®, EPA, and OSHA initiatives by protecting the environment and ensuring the health, safety, and security of employees, contractors, carriers, distributors, visitors, customers, and neighbors.
• Collaborating with the Maintenance Supervisor and E&I Supervisor to create and maintain a continuously updated three-week multi-craft maintenance schedule, ensuring parts availability and utilizing SAP tools for effective scheduling and daily work planning.
• Providing technical and administrative support with a strong emphasis on teamwork while balancing long-range and short-range scheduling by regularly analyzing maintenance work backlog against available resources to maintain a proactive maintenance environment.
• Planning turnarounds, developing job packages and resource libraries, informing management of critical situations, recommending process improvements, promoting resource conservation, and creating SAP Bills of Material (BOMs).
• Preparing management reports, assisting with budget tracking and cost analysis, providing historical equipment cost data, supporting SAP procurement transactions, and completing other tasks as assigned by the Maintenance Manager.

If you...

• Have a Highschool diploma/ GED or equivalent 
• Possess a minimum of six years of maintenance experience (or equivalent) in a chemical manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of equipment and overall plant manufacturing processes.
• Exhibit in-depth knowledge of mechanical and instrumentation equipment, including maintenance practices, mechanical integrity, and inspection methods, as well as familiarity with maintenance programs, work processes, and industry best practices.
• Demonstrate strong technical expertise in preventive maintenance and repair activities for rotating equipment, instrumentation, and electrical systems, coupled with competencies in troubleshooting, root cause failure analysis, and work planning and estimating.
• Exhibit strong safety skills and compliance with OSHA and plant-specific procedures, along with knowledge of environmental practices, ASME codes, and pressure piping codes.
• Can read and interpret piping and instrumentation diagrams, engineering specifications, engineering drawings, and vendor-supplied technical information
• Possess knowledge of Electrical and mechanical processes.  
• Possess strong computer literacy, incl