Senior Maintenance Scheduler, NA

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Site Operations Department

The Site Operations Department is responsible for the overall health of all mechanical and electrical systems, building maintenance, and performance of all data modules in our data centers. The team is staffed 24 x 7 onsite with Critical Facility Engineers (CFEs)on each shift. This team is the face of Vantage to our customers and the first line of defense regarding the uptime of our campus as well as the performance of our customer installations. Using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to plan and track work needed, the Site Operations department performs all preventive and corrective maintenance. Our culture expects and rewards team performance that engages directly with the customers and the facility infrastructure. This is a team that does most of the actual work versus calling upon vendors. As a result, we provide superior service that is faster and more cost effective.

Position Overview

This position is on-site at our data center in Shackelford County, TX.

We are looking for a Senior Maintenance Scheduler who understands that the maintenance calendar is a primary tool for managing operational risk in a mission-critical data center campus. This role serves as the senior planning authority for maintenance activities and is responsible for coordinating, sequencing, and approving work in a way that protects system redundancy and uptime across Critical Cooling, Critical Power, Generator Systems, and Logistics teams.

The successful candidate works directly with Maintenance Managers, Site Operations leadership, and vendors to ensure all preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance is scheduled within safe operating windows. This role requires a deep understanding of how maintenance activities impact electrical and mechanical redundancy and the discipline to prevent unsafe overlaps in work execution.

If you understand that when maintenance happens is just as important as how it happens, we want to hear from you.

Essential Job Functions

• Owns the campus maintenance scheduling strategy and standards

• Coordinates maintenance activities across Critical Cooling, Critical Power, Generator Systems, and Logistics teams

• Evaluates maintenance requests against system redundancy and operational risk

• Leads weekly and monthly maintenance planning meetings

• Ensures adherence to approved maintenance windows and sequencing requirements

• Partners closely with Maintenance Managers and Site Operations leadership

• Maintains a disciplined, audit-ready maintenance calendar within CMMS

Duties

• Build and manage the master maintenance calendar for the campus

• Sequence preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance to avoid redundancy conflicts

• Review maintenance requests and determine safe execution windows

• Evaluate system redundancy, maintenance concurrency, and operational risk when sequencing work

• Coordinate vendor access and maintenance timing with Logistics and site leadership

• Identify and resolve scheduling conflicts between electrical, mechanical, and generator work

• Ensure high-risk work is properly spaced and approved before scheduling

• Track upcoming maintenance activities and identify future risk overlaps

• Support outage planning and major maintenance events

• Maintain accurate scheduling records and reporting within CMMS

• Communicate schedule changes and impacts to all affected teams

• Participate in after-action reviews to improve scheduling practices

• Lead continuous improvement of maintenance planning processes, tools, and scheduling standards

• Provide mentorship and scheduling guidance to Maintenance Schedulers

• Handle additional duties as assigned by management.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, or work control in industrial, utility, manufacturing, or mission-critical environments

• Experience supporting data center, power plant, hospital, or industrial maintenance teams preferred

• Familiarity with MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs preferred

• Experience leading maintenance or outage planning meetings preferred

• Background in mechanical, electrical, or facilities operations environments preferred

• Strong understanding of electrical and mechanical system redundancy concepts (N, N+1, 2N, etc.)

• Experience coordinating multiple technical teams and vendors

• Proficiency with CMMS platforms and maintenance planning tools

• Proficiency with the Service Now platform preferred

• Strong organizational, communication, and decision-making skills

• Ability to identify operational risk related to maintenance timing

• Ability to work independently and lead scheduling discussions with technical teams

• Reliable transportation and ability to pass a background check

Physical Demands and Special Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Additional Details

• Normal Work Week: Monday to Friday 7am to 3pm.

• This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.

• Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including your qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience.

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We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other's strengths and respecting each other's weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.

Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.

Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Vantage Data Centers does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm agencies. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of Vantage Data Centers.