Maintenance Planner, LFP Cell Manufacturing

The Maintenance Planner plays a critical role in ensuring equipment reliability and uptime by planning, coordinating, and scheduling preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. This role serves as a central point of contact between production, maintenance teams, and support functions to ensure all planned downtime activities are executed safely, efficiently, and with minimal impact to operations.

• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling of activities

• Create and audit PMs and PdMs to maximize equipment reliability and reduce waste

• Participate in bi-weekly planning meetings to align upcoming work and resolve conflicts

• Ensure all job plans and activities include required safety protocols (LOTO, PPE, Arc Flash, etc.)

• Collaborate with technicians and supervisors to maintain work plan visibility and status updates

• Break down work orders into executable tasks, including estimated labor hours, tools, safety requirements, materials, and sequence of operations

• Partner with reliability engineers and supervisors to analyze downtime and identify failure patterns

• 3+ years of experience in maintenance planning or high-volume manufacturing environments.

• Technical familiarity with equipment such as precision motion systems, pneumatic systems, vision systems, servo motors, and PLC-based automation (Allen Bradley preferred)

• Working knowledge of safety practices and standards (LOTO, NFPA70E, 5S, etc.)

• Strong understanding of maintenance best practices: PMs, PdMs, TPM, backlog management, and reliability-centered maintenance

• Proficient with CMMS software, MES, inventory systems, and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)

• Must have command of the English language, both written and verbal