Maintenance Planner (Power Generation/Maintenance Documentation)

Maintenance Planner (Power Plant Generation/Maintenance Documentation)

Location: Houston, Texas or Pittsburgh, PA offices

Schedule: Onsite preferred (Flex for Partial Remote)

Employment Type: 6+ Month W2 Contract

Role Overview

An experienced Technical Writer is sought for a large-scale power plant maintenance and operations initiative. This role involves developing, organizing, and maintaining detailed technical documentation for maintenance, outage, and restart activities across mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation and controls disciplines. This position is part of a long-term project supporting critical infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, edit, and maintain technical documentation, including maintenance work packages, job plans, procedures, and task sequencing.
• Translate complex technical input from engineering, maintenance, and operations teams into clear written documentation.
• Support preventive and corrective maintenance documentation efforts.
• Assist with scoping work orders and documenting labor, materials, tools, and resource requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, maintenance, and planning teams to ensure documentation readiness and accuracy.
• Utilize maintenance management systems to support documentation and work planning activities.
• Support outage, turnaround, and restart documentation requirements.
• Ensure documentation aligns with safety, regulatory, and organizational standards.
• Provide documentation support to scheduling and execution teams as needed.

Required Qualifications

Experience: 3–5+ years of technical writing experience in an industrial, energy, utilities, or highly regulated environment. Experience working with maintenance or asset management systems is required. The role requires experience documenting maintenance activities involving pumps, valves, piping, rotating equipment, and instrumentation.

Technical Skills: The ability to interpret mechanical, electrical, and I&C documentation, drawings, and procedures is necessary. Candidates must have the capacity to work independently in a remote environment and collaborate effectively with distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting power generation facilities or large industrial sites.
• Familiarity with maintenance planning, outage planning, or major maintenance initiatives.
• Exposure to scheduling tools.
• Experience documenting electrical or instrumentation and controls systems in addition to mechanical systems.
• Experience working in highly regulated or safety-conscious environments.

Compensation & Benefits

The pay rate for this position is between $55.00 and $70.00 per hour. Compensation may vary based on factors such as experience, skills, and location. Eligible employees may be offered a benefits package.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.