Maintenance Scheduling Coordinator

A large, modern food manufacturing site producing high volumes for an international market is looking for a Maintenance Scheduling Coordinator. The environment is fast-paced and highly automated, with a wide variety of process and packaging equipment. The maintenance organization focuses on safety, reliability, and minimizing downtime through strong planning and coordination. The role involves planning and coordinating preventive and corrective maintenance activities across multiple production lines, ensuring that planned line stops are used effectively, work orders are well prepared, and the right technicians are assigned at the right time.

Responsibilities include building and managing maintenance schedules for planned line stops, assigning prepared work orders to technicians, preparing, planning and allocating work orders using systems such as SAP PM and Microsoft Excel, aligning planned maintenance with production planning, replanning quickly when unexpected issues occur, supporting resource planning, collaborating closely with other maintenance planners and work preparers, and contributing to continuous improvement.

Requirements include completed vocational education (MBO level 4 or similar), proven experience in planning/scheduling (maintenance planning experience is a strong advantage), strong coordination skills, accuracy, punctuality, proactivity, team player, comfort with Microsoft Office (especially Excel), experience with SAP PM is a strong plus, fluency in both Dutch and English, affinity with technical environments (technical background not required), and a high sense of responsibility regarding safety and quality/food safety.

The position is based on-site in Veghel (Netherlands), within a large maintenance organization supporting a complex production environment.