Prod. & Maintenance Coordinator

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East Chicago, IN Until 8/21/2026 2+ years exp First posted June 16, 2026 Last posted June 16, 2026
Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Reviews all non-emergency work requests to ensure work order content meets process requirements and requested completion dates facilities planning lead times.

  • Coordinates the site’s contractor activities while adhering to bargaining unit requirements, including meeting regularly with the union.
  • Monitoring and reporting of the site maintenance headcount (SunCoke, resident contractors and third-party services) to ensure staffing levels are within budgetary constraints. 
  • Elevates the need to increase budgeted headcount for surge maintenance and outage events. 
  • Facilitates the weekly scheduling meeting and ensures that planned work is matched with available resources. The content of the weekly schedule is a collaborative effort between all plant departments with the PMC having final determination of the schedule. 
  • Redirecting minor maintenance activities to production technicians as time, tools, and material are available to ensure optimal use of maintenance resources
  • Coaching and providing feedback to the originator when work orders are not properly entered or are entered with insufficient descriptions,
  • Ensuring the Management of Change process is followed when necessary.
  • Continually reviewing work order back log to ensure jobs with highest priority and added value are prioritized, planned, and executed in a timely fashion such that regulatory requirements are maintained and reliability is not jeopardized.
  • The PMC elevates the need for maintenance overtime to ensure jobs will complete in time to meet the needs of the process unit
  • Reviewing daily schedules to ensure they meet the plants needs
  • Acts as liaison between operations and maintenance groups on any problems adhering to the schedule
  • Providing schedule information to the Production Operators for equipment preparation needs.
  • Participating in the identification and implementation of reliability driven improvements
  • Ensure work group has a full understanding of the workflow process
  • Follows all SSEP requirements
  • Manages the plant winterization program.

Education Requirements / Work Experience:

Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-Year College or technical school; 2 to 5 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Previous supervisory experience / contractor management is preferred.  

Certifications: CMRP preferred.

This is in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities of, and the duties to be performed by, the employee occupying this position.

About this role

Summary

Coordinate maintenance activities, manage schedules, and improve reliability in a manufacturing plant.

Job title

Prod. & Maintenance Coordinator

Experience level

2-5 years

Minimum experience

2+ years exp

Industry

manufacturing

Location requirements

East Chicago, IN; on-site work only

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

schedule managementcontractor coordinationwork order processingproject reviewcommunication

Preferred skills

CMRPsupervisory experiencebudget management

Specializations

maintenancecontractor managementschedulingreliabilitywinterization
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

East Chicago, IN, USA

On-site City