TRIGEN-BOSTON ENERGY CORPORATION

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Planner & Scheduler

Reports To: Director of Distribution and Project Services

Jobs Supervised: Not Applicable

Summary:
The Planner & Scheduler must have knowledge of mechanical and piping systems with a high level of expertise using computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) and other planning and scheduling tools. CMMS will be used to manage the backlog of work; maintain a list of priority outage work; plan and schedule work; add, modify, and delete equipment data records; managing the PM programs; and run reports in order to keep the organization updated on progress and areas of concern. This individual will also develop plans and schedules and track work progress on all capital and major maintenance projects. Employ reliability centered maintenance concepts to preventive maintenance program.

Good verbal and written communication skills are a must. This individual will facilitate regular planning meetings to establish work priorities, sequence of work activities, and collaborate with others to determine deadlines. Issues reports and conducts management presentations on work order aging, work plans, schedules and progress updates. 
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Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Facilitate regular planning meetings to establish short and long term work activities and monitor progress
2. Prepares project work plans and schedules
3. Tracks work progress compared to pre-established plans and schedules
4. Prepares permit plans and works with city officials to obtain permits
5. Facilitate meeting that will review all planned work and determine what work should be scheduled for the next four weeks.
6. Identify critical path obstacles in the process and work through them.
7. Coordinate the results analysis of the PM program as well as the Root Cause Analysis program, to identify potential hazards and the plans to prevent them from occurring.
8. Work with supervisors to review work orders to prioritize them in regards to criticality and necessity.
9. Build trust in others so the organization is unified in its direction.
10. Work with the maintenance manager in the development of outage scopes based on existing work orders, a knowledge of concerns, and expected PM work.
11. Use the tools in CMMS to update schedules and work order statuses.
12. Creation, modification, and deletion of equipment identifications.
13. Update the equipment hierarchy as needed
14. Identify critical equipment by use of the new priority definitions
15. Create equipment parts lists as they become available
16. Run and distribute reports including backlog reports, KPI reports(Track statistically established key performance indicators (KPI), analyze and report findings to management team on a scheduled basis)
17. develop and update long term milestones ,project schedules, and tasks as required.
18. Delegate tasks and responsibilities to Lead Operators and other personnel as required.

Skills and Abilities:
1. A degree from an accredited university preferred and/or 3-years experience
2. Computer knowledge - proficiency with CMMS, ,Excel, Word, Microsoft Project, and PowerPoint. Maximo implementation experience, CAD 2000 , SQL, and oracle data base knowledge in an industrial application a plus.
3. Excellent communication skills
4. Ability to learn quickly and work under pressure
5. Superior interpersonal skills
6. Proven planning and organizational skills
7. Leadership ability
8. Uses discretion concerning confidential and sensitive company information
9. Team player able to work with all levels of the Trigen organization.
10. 5 years experience working in the scheduling planning field.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive description of all the duties and responsibilities of the job incumbent.

Interested candidates should forward their resume to For more information about Trigen Companies visit http://www.Trigen.com