Maintenance Manager - Planning

Maintenance Manager - Planning

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Manager Maintenance – Planning Find your more with Mohawk! What we need:
Mohawk is looking for a Maintenance Planning Manager to drive planning, scheduling, and storeroom excellence across the site. This role provides direction for planners, schedulers, and storeroom operations while ensuring high-quality job planning, accurate materials readiness, and disciplined work management. This role will own maintenance planning governance, oversee weekly and long-range schedules, and lead the preparation and execution of major downtime events.

What you'll do:
Provide leadership, direction, and performance management for Maintenance Planners/Schedulers and the Storeroom Supervisor, ensuring clear role ownership, expectations, and accountability. Establish standard work, priorities, and planning horizons for planners and schedulers to ensure consistent, high-quality job planning and scheduling discipline. Set expectations for storeroom performance, inventory accuracy, and service levels through the Storeroom Supervisor rather than direct task execution. Coach and develop team members to improve planning quality, schedule adherence, materials readiness, and data accuracy.

Own and govern the site maintenance work management process, ensuring work is properly scoped, planned, and ready prior to scheduling and execution. Review and approve planning standards, job plan quality expectations, and backlog management strategies established by the planning team. Ensure alignment between maintenance priorities, equipment criticality, production needs, and planned downtime opportunities. Partner with Maintenance Managers, Engineering, and Operations to ensure maintenance planning supports asset reliability and production objectives.

Provide oversight and strategic direction for weekly and daily maintenance scheduling developed by planners and schedulers. Own accountability for monthly maintenance down days, ensuring scope definition, resource alignment, materials readiness, and execution sequencing are established and adhered to. Lead long range planning and coordination for biannual maintenance down weeks, ensuring work is identified, planned, resourced, and staged well in advance.

Ensure Down Days and Down Weeks are governed by clear scope control, readiness reviews, and execution expectations to minimize risk and reactive work. Provide managerial oversight of contractor planning and utilization in support of scheduled down days and extended shutdowns. Ensure planners appropriately integrate contractor scope, labor hours, skill requirements, and sequencing into maintenance plans and schedules. Partner with procurement, safety, and maintenance leadership to ensure contractors are properly qualified, aligned, and prepared to execute work safely and efficiently.

Hold planners and supervisors accountable for effective contractor coordination and cost control during planned events. Serve as the site owner for maintenance work management governance within the CMMS, with strong emphasis on SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) usage and discipline. Champion potential CMMS integration with SAP Establish expectations for work order lifecycle management, including planning, releasing, scheduling, confirmation, and close‑out accuracy.

Review and act on KPIs related to planning effectiveness, schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog health, and materials availability. Ensure planners, supervisors, and storeroom leadership are trained and compliant with SAP standards and processes. Provide managerial oversight of storeroom operations through the Storeroom…