Senior Maintenance Planner

About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling—keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

The Senior Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimizing maintenance execution and plant downtime activities to maximize equipment reliability, plant availability, and workforce efficiency. This role serves as the central coordination point between Maintenance, Operations, Reliability, Engineering, and Spare Parts teams to ensure work is properly scoped, planned, resourced, scheduled, and executed safely.

The role focuses heavily onoutage planning, resource coordination, contractor alignment, and improving overall maintenance execution performance throughstructuredplanning processes. Focusbetweenoutage preparation and execution will be to support weekly maintenance schedules and preventative maintenance activities.

• Develop detailed job plans for preventive, corrective, predictive, and turnaround maintenance activities

• Build and maintain weekly maintenance schedules in coordination with Operations and Maintenance leadership

• Define labor requirements, tooling, permits, scaffolding, specialty services, and materials required for work execution

• Ensure all work orders contain complete scope, estimated labor hours, procedures, drawings, and parts requirements before scheduling

• Prioritize maintenance backlog based on risk, criticality, production impact, and equipment health

• Lead planning and execution for plant shutdowns, outages, and major maintenance events

• Develop integrated downtime schedules including:

• Critical path activities

• Resource loading

• Contractor coordination

• Equipment isolation sequencing

• Startup readiness planning

• Facilitate daily outage coordination meetings during shutdown execution

• Track downtime progress, identify schedule risks, and drive recovery plans when deviations occur

• Act as liaison between Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, EHS, and Contractors

• Coordinate equipment access windows and ensure operational readiness for planned work

• Support Management of Change (MOC) activities related to maintenance or shutdown work

• Work with Reliability Engineering to incorporate RCA findings, PM improvements, and predictive maintenance strategies into future plans

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, or related technical field OR equivalent industrial maintenance experience.

• 5+ years of experience in industrial maintenance, planning,and/or scheduling

• Experience planning major outages, shutdowns, or turnarounds in a manufacturing or process plant environment.

• Strong understanding of:

• Mechanical systems

• Rotatingand fixedequipment

• Process equipment

• Maintenance workflows

• Lockout/Tagout andpermittingsystems

• Experience with CMMS systems (SAP, Maximo, JDE, etc.).

• Strong organizational, communication, and coordination skills.

• Experience in chemical, mining, refining, cement, energy, or heavy industrial environments

• Familiarity with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), RCA methodologies, and predictive maintenance programs

• Experience with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project

• Supervisory or lead coordination experience during outages or shutdowns

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

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