Maintenance Planner; Power Generation​/Maintenance Documentation

Overview

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.

• 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.

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:

Ability to interpret mechanical, electrical, and I&C documentation, drawings, and procedures. Must be able to work independently in a remote environment and collaborate effectively with distributed teams.

• 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.

Pay rate: 55.00–70.00 per hour. Compensation may vary based on experience, skills, and location. Eligible employees may be offered a benefits package.

Equal opportunity employer statement retained as applicable.

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