She would not accept no or maybe for an answer! She would contact people, such as Stores for parts or the equipment hire company for working at heights equipment, and ask them what they had done to get the necessary resources and information ready. She challenged tardy Suppliers to come up with alternative ways to keep to the agreed delivery dates. She was constantly on the telephone to suppliers hounding them to ensure that their delivers were made to site on time. They were astounded because she got things done and jobs were ready to be started on time, as scheduled. She was the best Scheduler they had ever seen. I remember a story told to me about how a company had put a young lady into the role of Maintenance Scheduler without having any experience in maintenance duties. The coordination required to do and complete a maintenance job also requires the Scheduler to get the asset owner to make the asset available at an agreed time and in an agreed condition. You would even go as far as getting fire extinguishers, safety signage, safety showers, danger tape, etc.

The resources for a job include needed information, people, parts, materials and equipment. You take a job plan, read it, identify the resources needed to do the job, ask the Planner any questions you have about the work, ask the plant owner any questions about the location of the work, then bring all the resources together at the time the job is to be done. Maintenance scheduling involves organization and coordination. Planning comes first and scheduling is done after the plan is finalized. Please can you explain what is scheduling? And secondly, what are the challenges of a Scheduler?

The Scheduling role involves assembling and coordinating the information, people, materials, equipment, along with all the other necessary resources to get the job done. A Maintenance Scheduler is responsible to take a maintenance plan and bring together all the resources needed to complete it.

Ice scheduler job description