A job hold tool includes a memory, a conflict engine, a hold engine, and a start engine. The memory stores a maintenance schedule indicating a period of time during which maintenance is scheduled to occur and a job schedule indicating a plurality of scheduled start times for a plurality of jobs. The conflict engine identifies, based on the job schedule and the maintenance schedule, each job of the plurality of jobs whose scheduled start time is within the period of time. The hold engine holds each job identified by the conflict engine such that each held job will not start at its scheduled start time. The start engine starts each held job in response to a received notification that the maintenance is complete.