Maintenance Planning Manager

Back Maintenance Planning Manager Maintenance Mt Gilead , North Carolina Professional Direct Hire Sep 21, 2026 HTI is seeking an experienced Maintenance Planning Manager for a direct-hire opportunity with a leading global manufacturer in Mount Gilead, North Carolina. This role will own maintenance planning, scheduling, SAP PM discipline, storeroom performance, and major shutdown readiness for a 24/7 continuous-process plant. The salary range is $120,000-$150,000, depending on experience
, with 10%-15% annual bonus potential
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• Competitive base salary plus 10%-15% annual bonus potential
• Medical and prescription coverage, along with dental and vision plans
• HSA option with company contributions and available FSA options
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) options with company match
• Telehealth, employee assistance, life insurance, accident, and critical illness options
• Maternity support, education and tuition assistance, career development, and employee discount programs
• Benefits are subject to eligibility, plan terms, location availability, and change.

• 6-8 years of maintenance planning, reliability, or manufacturing maintenance experience, including 1-3 years of leadership experience
• Required hands-on experience with CMMS systems and SAP Plant Maintenance, including work orders, PMs, backlog, scheduling, closeout, and reporting
• Required experience planning and leading extended shutdowns in which a large facility is down for one or more full weeks and safely restarted; one- or two-day outages alone are not sufficient
• Experience improving PM quality, job-plan readiness, schedule compliance, technician utilization, backlog health, and maintenance KPIs
• Working knowledge of MRO storeroom operations, cycle counts, inventory accuracy, critical spares, kitting, staging, contractor coordination, and cost control
• Paper, pulp, MDF, particleboard, engineered wood, or another heavy continuous-process manufacturing background is strongly preferred
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, maintenance, operations, or a related field is preferred; PMP certification is a plus
• Ability to work in both office and plant environments and support evenings, weekends, holidays, and extended shutdown schedules when required

The Maintenance Planning Manager will create stronger ownership and discipline around maintenance work management so maintenance leadership can remain focused on execution and equipment performance. This position will lead seven employees, including two maintenance planners and five storeroom team members, and will coordinate closely with maintenance, operations, engineering, procurement, safety, and contractors.

• Lead the planning and storeroom teams, establish clear expectations, and improve utilization and accountability
• Own day-to-day job planning, weekly scheduling, backlog management, down-day planning, and preventive-maintenance reporting
• Serve as the site owner for SAP Plant Maintenance work-management discipline and data quality
• Review the PM program to identify effective, poorly written, redundant, or missing PMs and establish useful performance metrics
• Improve technician utilization by ensuring labor, parts, tools, job steps, contractors, and permits are ready before scheduled work begins
• Strengthen cycle counts, inventory accuracy, critical-spares strategy, kitting, staging, and parts readiness
• Lead long-range planning and execution for major full-week shutdowns, including scope control, resources, sequencing, contractor coordination, safe restart, and post-event review
• Partner with production and maintenance leadership to increase planned work and reduce reactive maintenance in a single-line operation

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