Maintenance Planner; Augusta, GA - Austin Industrial; NUTR
Listed on 2026-07-05
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Engineering
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer -
Manufacturing / Production
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Manufacturing Engineer
Maintenance Planner
Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.
The primary objective of a Major Spares & Mechanical Planner is to improve plant reliability and efficiency through planning, coordinating, and maintaining mechanical assets identified as major and/or capital spares based on criticality and other qualifying factors.
Responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain an equipment/asset database to manage Major Spares.
- Ship and track high priority equipment.
- Provide information to management of the location/status of the equipment monthly.
- Develop and maintain equipment files and procedures.
- Maintain the Major Spares project structure in Oracle EAM.
- Document repair status updates, previous repair dates, in-depth repair scope and repair vendor details.
- Track and document spares spending.
- Provide spend analysis and reporting for spares.
- Forecast expected spend to align with 5-year budgeting plan.
- Develop and maintain inspection job plan templates and data packages for each piece of critical equipment.
- Establish and maintain professional partnerships with vendors.
- Initiate purchase requisitions for materials, parts, and equipment required on approved work orders.
- Write SSA's for new parts and existing equipment as necessary.
- Delete old/obsolete parts and equipment to ensure correct parts are being used.
- Provide Management with Capital Spare equipment needing repairs on a periodic basis.
- Plan Capital Spare and Mechanical work orders for routine work, normal outages, and turnarounds.
- Review each work order to ensure the proper information has been supplied by the originator.
- Plan maintenance work orders to develop the job sequencing by identifying the basic steps and associated resources.
- Estimate each step of the plan and estimate the materials required for completion of the task.
- Benchmark work orders so that the best job plan is included in future asset activities.
Job Skill Requirements
Qualifications:
- Microsoft 0365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, Sharepoint, Edge), Oracle EAM, Viziya Scheduler
- High School Graduate (Additional formal education desired)
- Good planning and organizational skills and proactive beliefs.
- Ability to work in team environments to drive change and continuous improvement performance throughout the organization.
- Strong communication skills, with tact and diplomacy while able to demonstrate superior active listening skills.
- Ability to establish relationships and address conflict through appropriate resolution skills and techniques.
- Competent working in cross-functional and multi-task environments.
- Ability to prioritize and organize multiple tasks; provide timely responses and manage time appropriately.
- Willingness to train others in Scheduling related functions.
- Willingness to work on Continuous Improvement aspects of Scheduling.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
- Education:
No minimum requirement - Experience:
Minimum 4 years in industrial planning and scheduling - Certifications/Licenses: A Valid Driver's License.
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer. See the "Know Your Rights" poster available in English and Spanish.
No Third-Party Inquiries Please. This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so.
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