Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for ownership of the maintenance planning process and CMMS administration for a Tier 1 automotive driveshaft manufacturing facility. This role ensures that preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance work is properly scoped, planned, scheduled, and executed to maximize equipment reliability and uptime. This position is not clerical scheduling only. The Planner serves as process owner for eMaint (CMMS), drives maintenance workflow discipline, and manages external vendor support for Maintenance and Facilities.

Essential Functions:

• CMMS Ownership & Administration:
• Serve as system owner and administrator for eMaint CMMS.
• Maintain asset hierarchy, PM structure, job plans, BOMs, task libraries, and user permissions.
• Generate monthly PM schedules and balance technician workload.
• Audit work order quality for failure codes, labor hours, and parts accuracy.
• Train technicians and supervisors on proper CMMS usage.

• Work Planning & Scheduling:
• Develop detailed job plans including scope, labor hours by craft, parts, tools, safety requirements, and LOTO steps.
• Maintain an accurate 2–4 week planned backlog.
• Prioritize work based on risk, safety, and production impact.
• Balance weekly labor capacity across shifts.
• Improve ratio of planned vs emergency work.

• Vendor & Contractor Management:
• Own coordination of all external maintenance and facilities contractors.
• Define scope of work and obtain competitive quotations.
• Align scope with SAP purchase orders and budget approvals.
• Schedule contractor work to minimize production risk.
• Ensure contractors comply with plant safety standards.
• Verify quality of completed work prior to closeout.

• Reliability & Continuous Improvement:
• Develop and refine preventative and predictive maintenance programs using OEM guidelines and failure history.
• Support root cause analysis and reliability improvement efforts.
• Monitor and improve KPIs including:
• PM completion rate
• Schedule compliance
• MTBF and MTTR
• Backlog health
• PM to breakdown ratio

Qualifications & Skills:

• Required:
• Minimum 5 years industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience in maintenance planning and CMMS administration.
• Strong working knowledge of mechanical systems including hydraulics, pneumatics, and power transmission.
• Proven ability to build job plans and estimate labor requirements.
• Experience managing external contractors.
• Proficiency with CMMS (eMaint preferred) and SAP or similar ERP.
• Familiar with OSHA, NIOSH, federal, state, and local regulatory requirements
• Familiar with IATF 16949 and ISO 14001 requirements
• Must have working knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, and mechanical power transmission systems.

• Preferred:
• Tier 1 automotive manufacturing experience.
• CMRP or reliability certification.
• Experience supporting automated production equipment).

Work Environment:

• Manufacturing facility with exposure to industrial equipment and shop floor activity.
• Requires occasional on-site troubleshooting and coordination with maintenance and cross functional teams.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to walk/move about a 500,000 square foot manufacturing facility area 100% of the time
• Must be able to stand/walk move about specific work area: 75% of the time
• Must be able to bend/reach/twist/stoop 25% of the time
• Must be able to lift 40 pounds on a frequent basis: 70% of the time
• Must be able to lift over 40 pounds on an infrequent basis: 30% of the time
• Must be able to sit at a work station: 30% of the time
• Must be able to operate a computer terminal at least 30% of the time
• Must be able to work at heights up to 35 feet above ground level
• Must be able to work in confined spaces
• Vision is required to analyze and process work; and to work on computer terminal/machine centers, etc.
• Hearing is required for communicating to supervisor, co-workers, and employees via one-on-one, group meetings, and phone
• Must be able to work with paints/solvents/cleaners
• Must be able to work any shift as required including overtime, as needed

Position Type / Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time position. Standard days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM. However, at times, due to business necessity a certain flexibility to include weekend work and after hours work is expected.

Travel:

While this role typically does not require travel. Travel between sites and to any special training events may be necessary.

AAP/EEO Statement:

IFA North America provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, IFA North America complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.