Maintenance Planner

Do you want to join a team that's changing the world? Do you have a strong background as a Maintenance Planner? Then we're looking for you! Put your skills to meaningful use, gain unique experience, and work with world-class team members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who share the same vision.

Summary:

Join us at Panasonic Energy as we expand to De Soto, Kansas, where we’re building the world’s largest lithium-ion battery factory. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career while contributing to the future of electric vehicles. As part of our team, you’ll help push the limits of battery technology, enhancing performance and efficiency in sustainable transportation.

Our state-of-the-art facility, just outside the Kansas City Metro, will be a hub for innovation in green energy solutions. If you're passionate about sustainability and eager to contribute to the electric vehicle revolution, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team. Join us and make a meaningful impact on the future of energy and transportation.

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for coordinating and optimizing maintenance activities to maximize equipment reliability, availability, and operational performance. This role serves as a key link between Production, Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance teams, ensuring maintenance work is effectively planned, scheduled, and executed. The Maintenance Planner utilizes maintenance management systems, production schedules, and asset management best practices to prioritize work, allocate resources, and support continuous improvement initiatives across the facility.

• Coordinate and prepare all maintenance resources and activities according to employee skillsets while maintaining comprehensive schedules for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual maintenance activities
• Collaborate with internal teams to coordinate, plan, and schedule all maintenance activities within the maintenance management system, including preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, repairs, calibrations, equipment updates, projects, and other maintenance activities
• Ensure resource availability when planning maintenance schedules and performance expectations, including maintenance and operations personnel, materials, documentation, work orders, change orders, parts availability, and required approvals
• Organize and coordinate unscheduled and emergency equipment repairs while partnering with production and operations teams to minimize downtime
• Conduct initial screening of incoming repair requests and maintenance work orders and coordinate with inventory, parts, and maintenance teams to establish appropriate planning levels
• Participate with maintenance and production teams to maximize equipment availability, reliability, and operational performance

• Adhere to industry best practices for asset management planning and scheduling
• Continuously improve, develop, implement, and maintain compliance with the PanaCIM system and associated maintenance processes
• Support initiatives that improve equipment reliability, maintenance efficiency, and overall operational effectiveness

• Audit work order assignments to ensure proper prioritization, completion, and resource allocation
• Provide support to maintenance personnel regarding planning processes, maintenance scheduling, and system utilization

• Integrate new equipment and maintenance strategies into PanaCIM while validating asset information with Production and Engineering teams
• Collaborate with production, engineering, operations, inventory, and…