3rd Party Planner / Scheduler

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The Solar Planner/Scheduler will be responsible forreporting to the CE (Clean Energy) Maintenance Support Planning Team Leader and will review and plan corrective notifications/work orders for a variety of solar and solar plus storage facilities daily. Help plan, schedule, and supervise routine maintenance for each site, follow up on all open work orders in the CMMS tool, assist with ePAS permits, and work directly with other resources, programs, and teams to schedule Preventive Maintenance (PM) work across each site. The Planner will incorporate any alarms or alerts from the Remote Operations Center, the non-regulatory monitoring team, as well as directly from SCADA monitoring platforms into the daily schedules to attend to any vital Corrective Maintenance (CM).

The role will be based out of the Merkel Texas (preferentially), North NY or Western NY offices.

Essential Functions:

• Helps to ensure that all maintenance activities are performed safely.
• Build work orders for corrective and routine work which include estimated hours, job assignments, parts, tooling, safety plan, rigging requirements, etc. in the CMMS tool.
• Build/Review/Approve permits for each site in ePAS daily.
• Prepares and schedules work orders for contractors required to accomplish all maintenance activities.
• Enters purchase requisitions in the CMMS tool (work order level) to procure contracted resources on an as needed basis.
• Maintain/Supervise up to date schedule of maintenance work orders and backlog status.
• Assist in measuring and improving maintenance KPI's such as schedule compliance, rework, break in work, Pm/Pdm compliance, Mean Time Between Failures, Time to Repair, etc.
• Communicates routinely with operations/maintenance teams to review work priorities and schedules.
• Maintains Asset Bill of Materials accuracy.
• Work with Lead/site personnel to develop planned and required outage resource loaded schedules.
• Work with site personnel to develop weekly resource loaded schedules 2-4 weeks out and lead weekly planning meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring that daily work orders, time entry, and parts usage are processed in the CMMS tool.
• Schedule and supervise QA/QC of maintenance work performed.
• Interact with Purchasing/Warehouse/Demand Planner to ensure all parts to perform service and documented repairs are reserved, ordered and in stock for the work being forecasted in the CMMS tool.
• Work with each site for crafting/scheduling proactive work orders based on vibration analysis, EtaPro, oil sample results, etc. or recommendations from the engineering team.
• Work with other programs i.e., ePAS, SiteDocs, SCADA, EtaPro, the CMMS tool, etc.
• Work with all Team Leaders, Lead Technicians, Demand Planner, ROCC Team, and Engineering Team each week to proactively schedule out inspections or other work required.
• Follows and champions AES Work Management processes.

Educational Qualifications:

• High School diploma required.
• Advanced technical degree in Maintenance, Electrical, Instrumentation Operations, and or Technical trade is strongly preferred.
• CMRP (certified maintenance reliability professional) certification is desirable.

Skills Qualifications:

• Demonstrate the ability to build a safe work culture.
• A minimum of 3 years maintenance planning experience is helpful.
• Mechanical and electrical planning work experience is desired.
• Ability to effectively communicate with all plant people and vendors.
• CMMS experience is required; SAP experience is preferred.
• Computer skills required, i.e., Word, Excel, Projects, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.
• Must be results orientated, self motivated, and able to work with limited direct supervision.
• Ability to lead a meeting and speak in large groups in person and/or via Skype/Teams.

Details:

• Reports to the Planning Team Lead on the Maintenance Support Services team.
• Routine travel will involve visiting project sites. Additional travel is expected to be occasional for training, conventions, seminars, etc.

AES is an Equal Opportunity Employer who is committed to building strength and delivering long-term sustainability through diversity and inclusion. Respecting all backgrounds, differences and perspectives enables us to improve the lives of our people, customers, suppliers, contractors, and the communities in which we live and work. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and/or expression, race, national origin, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. E-Verify Notice: AES will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.The expected salary for this position, at commencement of employment, is between $36,75 and $45,94/Hourly; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements such as annual bonus, in addition to a full range of medical, dental, vision, life, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if a candidate receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.