Lead Maintenance Planner

The Lead Maintenance Planner supports the Work Management organization by developing and overseeing detailed maintenance, repair, modification, troubleshooting, and testing plans necessary to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of plant equipment. The position builds upon the technical responsibilities of the Senior Maintenance Planner while providing additional day-to-day leadership, work coordination, prioritization, mentoring, and supervisory support to the Planning organization.

The Lead Planner serves as a key interface between Planning, Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Scheduling, Supply Chain, Quality, and other station organizations. The role is expected to provide technical and organizational leadership, assist with assignment and prioritization of planning work, monitor package quality and schedule readiness, and represent the Planning Supervisor in meetings or routine coordination activities when assigned.

The position retains the Senior Planner expectation to develop complex work plans, interpret technical documentation, support equipment reliability, coordinate across departments, maintain work management systems, and ensure compliance with plant procedures and regulatory requirements.

Primary Responsibilities:

Planning and Technical

• Develop detailed job plans for maintenance, repair, modification, testing, and troubleshooting of plant equipment.
• Develop testing requirements following maintenance, inspection, repair, and modification activities.
• Develop and improve preventive maintenance plans to support equipment reliability and performance.
• Perform technical research using drawings, specifications, vendor information, equipment history, procedures, Engineering documents, and other controlled references.
• Identify equipment problems, defects, and failures that could affect system integrity, reliability, or plant operation.
• Support Engineering with testing, evaluations, technical analysis, and development of appropriate work instructions.
• Identify and recommend design, maintenance, or process improvements that enhance plant safety, reliability, efficiency, and work execution.
• Update and maintain work management and scheduling systems, including Asset Suite or similar applications.
• Participate in post-work critiques, planning feedback reviews, apparent-cause evaluations, and continuous improvement activities.
• Coordinate with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Supply Chain, Scheduling, and other organizations to resolve work package issues and facilitate work readiness.
• Analyze alternatives and recommend solutions to technical, planning, scheduling, and execution challenges.
• Ensure work packages comply with applicable station procedures, policies, technical requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Interface with regulatory agencies, industry representatives, vendors, and other external organizations when required.
• Serve as a member of the Emergency Response Organization when assigned.

Work Assignment and Prioritization

• Assist the Planning Supervisor with the daily and weekly assignment of work to planners based on discipline, experience, priority, schedule need, workload, and technical complexity.
• Maintain awareness of planner workload and work-package status to support appropriate workload balancing across the team.
• Assist in identifying and communicating Planning priorities based on online schedule needs, emergent work, outage milestones, equipment reliability priorities, and station commitments.
• Coordinate reassignment of work when necessary to maintain continuity, schedule readiness, and effective use of available Planning resources.
• Identify resource conflicts, competing priorities, or workload concerns…