Maintenance Manager - Planning

Maintenance Manager - Planning

MT. GILEAD, North Carolina, United States, 27306

Requisition

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.

• 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 Supervisor, ensuring inventory accuracy, transaction discipline, and material availability.
• Ensure kitting and staging processes support scheduled maintenance work and downtime events without direct involvement in daily storeroom activities.
• Align storeroom strategies with maintenance planning requirements, critical spare strategies, and reliability objectives.
• Drive cost savings on non‑OEM parts and materials, working with vendors, purchasing, and internal customers.
• Perform additional responsibilities as needed to support evolving business priorities.

• Bachelor’s…