Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities to ensure equipment reliability, minimize downtime, and support safe and efficient operations. This role focuses on organizing preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance work by developing detailed job plans, securing materials and resources, and aligning schedules with production needs. The Maintenance Planner serves as a key link between maintenance, operations, and materials management, ensuring work is properly scoped, prioritized, and ready for execution. Success in this role is measured by improved asset reliability, schedule compliance, reduced emergency repairs, and optimized maintenance costs.

Develop detailed maintenance job plans, including labor estimates, task sequences, tools, permits, and safety requirements

Plan and schedule preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance work to maximize equipment availability

Coordinate maintenance schedules with operations to minimize production impact

Ensure required parts, materials, and services are identified and available prior to job execution

Maintain and continuously improve preventive maintenance strategies and asset histories

Use the CMMS to manage work orders, schedules, and maintenance data

Prioritize maintenance work based on asset criticality, risk, and operational impact

Track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as schedule compliance, backlog, and equipment downtime

Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on reliability, safety, and cost control

Collaborate with supervisors, technicians, engineers, and vendors to ensure effective execution of maintenance work

All other duties assigned by Supervisor or Manager.

Education: High school diploma or equivalent.

• Technical background in maintenance, reliability, or engineering (mechanical, electrical, or industrial preferred)
• Experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or facilities maintenance environment
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance practices
• Proficiency with CMMS systems and maintenance planning tools
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Ability to analyze data, prioritize work, and manage multiple schedules
• Strong focus on safety, quality, and reliability

Must show great leadership skills.

Great organizational skills.

Be available to work overtime, weekends, off shifts and call outs when necessary.

Valid driver's license

Must be able to stand, sit, walk, reach, stoop, squat, climb ladders, ramps & stairs, push and pull, reach at or below waist level and occasionally overhead, drive (forklift), hear, understand, and distinguish speech and other sounds (machinery alarms). Must be able to wear respirator and any other necessary personal protective equipment.

*This position requires a fit for duty physical.

Intermediate computer skills to include Microsoft Suite, Word, Excel, and Data Processing

Ability to speak, read and write.

Ability to lead, active listening, able to understand and empathize with others, teamwork, motivating others, organizational abilities, excellent communication skills.

Critical thinking, prioritization, flexibility, troubleshooting.

Reliability, Accountability, Respect for Diversity, Represent Elementis Core Values.

Nonverbal, written, and oral skills are required.

External Field The base hiring range is between $75,446.09 - $92,211.88. In addition to hiring salary, compensation package may include additional components such as health benefits, life insurance, 401K, vacation and yearly bonus incentives.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Elementis does not discriminate in hiring or in the terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, arrest record, citizenship or other category protected by federal, state or local laws.