Maintenance Specialist

Maintenance Specialist 3 (Planner)

Location: Atlanta, GA 30339

Contract- 1 Year

The Maintenance Specialist 3 (Planner) is responsible for driving maintenance strategies, optimizing equipment performance, and minimizing downtime. This role involves detailed planning, scheduling, and coordination of maintenance activities, with a focus on routine and outage planning. The ideal candidate has 6-10 years of experience in plant maintenance and operations, along with strong leadership, organizational, and technical expertise.

• Develop and implement strategic maintenance plans to enhance equipment longevity and minimize downtime.
• Lead maintenance projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with plant operational goals.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior maintenance staff.
• Engage with senior management on maintenance needs, strategies, and budget planning.
• Assess and implement new technologies and methods for improved maintenance efficiency.
• Foster strong relationships with equipment vendors and service providers.

• Administer the work order management system, including processing prioritized work orders, updating equipment records, and maintaining the equipment historical database.
• Develop and maintain the Plant’s Four-Week Plan, scheduling all maintenance activities across departments and reporting trends and metrics.
• Provide detailed work plans and work packages, coordinate material ordering and staging, and facilitate communication between maintenance groups and Planning & Scheduling.
• Develop outage work packages and plans for Planned, Forced, and Maintenance outages, utilizing Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules when appropriate.
• Provide coordination during outages and manage on-site and off-site contract labor needs (e.g., equipment rebuilds, parts refurbishment).

• Actively support Plant Reliability Optimization (PRO) as a System Owner or in direct support of system reliability efforts.
• Improve equipment maintenance strategies through enhanced repetitive task revisions.
• Optimize spare parts, materials, and equipment stocking levels.
• Conduct weekly planning meetings to review and refine maintenance schedules and activities.
• Review closed work orders to identify follow-up work requirements.

• 6-10 years of experience in plant maintenance and operations.
• Advanced degree or certifications in a relevant field preferred.

• Strong knowledge of equipment maintenance, planning, and scheduling.
• Experience with work order management systems and planning software.
• Ability to develop and manage maintenance budgets.
• Understanding of contract administration and vendor/contractor management.

• Strong organizational, administrative, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively across all levels (craft personnel, supervisory, staff, and management).
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently.
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple priorities in a high-pressure environment.

• Must be able to work extended hours, nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Occasional on-call rotation may be required.