Supervisor - Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

Arconic is currently in search of a Supervisor - Maintenance Planning & Scheduling to join our team based in Lancaster, PA.

At Arconic, we take pride in our work and our innovative products and technologies that advance sustainable solutions for a better world. We strive to create a safe, inclusive, and collaborative workplace with competitive benefits, development opportunities and a culture that values and rewards employees on all levels of the organization.

Lead the Work Management Process

• Own the governance, enforcement, and continuous improvement of the site’s Work Management process (Identify → Plan → Schedule → Execute → Close → Improve)
• Ensure all stages of the process have clear inputs, outputs, and quality gates. This role would require coaching and support to build the team
• Work with REX and leadership to create and develop audits of the internal work management system for adherence to planning, scheduling, kitting, and closeout standards
• Lead maturity assessments and develop action plans to raise site Work Management discipline
• Ensure planners, schedulers, and kitters use standard templates, workflows, naming conventions, codes, and documentation practices
• Enforce accuracy and consistency in Work Order status changes across the CMMS

Facilitate Cross-Functional Leadership and Communication

• Own alignment between Maintenance, Operations, Stores, Engineering, and Reliability on weekly and daily priorities
• Resolve conflicts between production demands and maintenance readiness, escalating only when needed
• Ensure operations provide timely downtime windows and advance notice of schedule changes
• Ensure transparent communication of weekly schedules, major job impacts, materials risks, and outage readiness status to all stakeholder groups

Ensure Quality Assurance for Job Plans and Kits

• Conduct periodic audits of job plans for accuracy, completeness, task clarity, and proper risk controls
• Verify planners are using execution feedback (planned vs. actual) to improve plan accuracy over time
• Oversee audits of kits for completeness, correct parts, labeling, staging, and materials accuracy
• Ensure kitting follows a repeatable, documented standard across all areas of the plant

Manage Production Loss Minimization

• Enforce a process for approving, controlling, and documenting break‑in work
• Analyzes break‑in causes and works with Reliability and Ops to reduce recurrence
• Lead analysis of delays from materials, planning gaps, scope changes, labor shortages/training, and operational issues
• Convert delay causes into corrective improvement actions for the PSK team

Oversee People Development and Capability Building

• Identify skill gaps among planners, schedulers, kitters, and provide targeted training
• Train new employees on the Work Management process, planner standards, and CMMS usage
• Ensure planners and schedulers learn field equipment, safe work practices, and craft feedback loops

Ensure Extended Outages, Major Repairs, and Engineering Projects

• Support pre-outage readiness reviews (materials, permits, plans, risk, and associated contractors)
• Validate critical path logic and ensures planners and kitters complete their deliverables on time
• Oversee outage closeout reports, lessons learned, and backlog cleanup

Administer Strategic, Long-Range Maintenance Preparation

• Develop 3–12 month maintenance planning forecasts using backlog data, asset criticality, and PM/PdM loads
• Partner with Engineering to support 5 Year MM/Capex Budget forecast planning
• Identify upcoming resource constraints or skill gaps and highlights, capital part needs, long-lead items, and contractor requirements
• Align long-term plans with budget cycles and asset reliability strategies

Lead the Planning, Scheduling and Kitting Organization

• Supervise and develop Maintenance Planners, Scheduler(s), Kitting staff, and support roles
• Ensure the Planning, Scheduling, and Kitting groups operate as one integrated workflow following the same process
• Work with reliability to set standards such as job plan quality, materials readiness, craft utilization and schedule accuracy
• Manage KPIs, coaching, staffing, work balance, and capability development for this team.
• Partner with Engineering in the planning of larger outages and their performance to ensure Lancaster Operations is ready

Facilitate Continuous Improvement and Work Management processes

• Own the work management process for the plant and the correct routing of work
• Oversee the priority status and act as a gate in the process
• Maintain a balanced backlog by priority, craft type, criticality, and readiness of the job
• Identify chronic backlog bottlenecks (e.g., missing scope, long-lead materials, waiting on engineering)
• Own backlog review cadence with Maintenance Ops, Reliability, and Operations
• Reduce aging, duplicate, or stalled work orders
• Advance site maturity in Work Management, materials flow, planning accuracy, and execution discipline
• Standardize templates, job plan libraries, kitting checklists, and process documentation
• Partner with Reliability to ensure data integrity across CMMS, PM tasks, BOMs, and asset hierarchy