Maintenance Planner - Cast Iron

Maintenance Planner
- Cast Iron

Work Mode:
Onsite

The Maintenance Planner
- Cast Iron Maintenance serves as the site’s reliability and asset management leader for assigned manufacturing assets, responsible for improving equipment reliability, maintenance effectiveness, work execution, and production uptime through the strategic planning, coordination, and scheduling of non-reactive maintenance activities. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this position develops detailed job plans, manages preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, supports major outage planning and execution, and optimizes the use of maintenance labor, contractors, materials, and financial resources.

The role independently influences maintenance spending, contractor utilization, equipment reliability initiatives, and long-term asset performance, with a scope, complexity, and organizational impact comparable to advanced maintenance planning positions.

Success in this role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, hands‑on maintenance experience, and the ability to communicate effectively and collaborate across all levels of the organization. Significant time is spent in the field gathering information, validating job requirements, and seeking feedback from frontline leadership and skilled trades associates to develop safe, efficient, and executable work plans. Through technical leadership, data‑driven decision making, and a passion for continuous improvement, the Maintenance Planner leads cross‑functional efforts to reduce downtime, improve asset performance, enhance maintenance productivity, and drive sustainable reliability improvements while fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.

• Evaluate incoming work requests for required information and segregate the work appropriately as a key element in the planning / scheduling process.
• Determine job commencement date by priority, relative to the schedule, through consultation with production, maintenance supervision and material lead‑time requirements.
• Evaluate existing and incoming work volumes and communicate with requester to establish priority and use partner contractors when necessary to meet established priority.
• Prepare a detailed weekly schedule that identifies daily activities, including allowance for emergency work and preapproved vacations.
• Revise the weekly schedule for major changes in project scope affecting resources and communicate these changes to all effected parties.

• Develop and document scope of work and limiting conditions through worksite evaluation and consultation with the requester, engineering, equipment suppliers and team leaders.
• Identify special tools, equipment and required trades.
  
  Arrange availability in accordance with the equipment availability through coordination with other planner groups and previously scheduled work.
• Identify required safety procedures and documents.
  
  Arrange availability of documents within the work plan and coordinate as needed.
• Determine required materials, engineered documentation, spare parts, and contractor resources necessary to execute planned work. Collaborate with Purchasing and Materials Management to optimize inventory levels, improve parts availability, and reduce maintenance delays.
• Review job plans as necessary with the maintenance team prior to commencement date.
• Establish sequence and duration of all craft skills, including sub‑order requirements, and external support requirements.
• Document, archive and maintain repeatable job plans and bill of materials.
• Manage equipment documentation program including archiving, updates and removal of documentation for eliminated equipment.
• Analyze maintenance workload, equipment criticality, historical performance data, and labor availability to develop resource forecasts and maintenance schedules that maximize equipment availability and maintenance effectiveness.
• Evaluate maintenance history, equipment failure trends, and operational requirements to support work prioritization decisions and identify opportunities to improve reliability, reduce…