Sr Maint Planner Substation

JOB TITLE: Sr Maintenance Planner Substation

REQUISITION: TRA
00ZK

DEPARTMENT: Substation Planning & Scheduling
- Southland Service Center

LOCATION: Stilwell, KS

PAY RANGE: $84,500 - $112,600 (Min-Mid)

Scheduled

Work Hours:

Monday
- Friday 7:00 a.m.

- 4:00 p.m. (Additional hours as required).

• Work with Regional Planner and Supervisor to communicate the expectation for safe and efficient execution of precision maintenance activities through complete work packages, including:
  • Detailed work instructions and procedures
  • Supporting documents (equipment specifications, bills of material and drawings)
  • Resource estimates (labor, materials, equipment, tools, and outside services)
• Develop and manage integrated maintenance schedules weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually by aligning substation maintenance, capital projects, compliance requirements, outage windows, resource availability, and operational priorities. Coordinate with system operations to schedule switching and clearances, track NERC compliance activities, plan and sequence capital work, forecast future workload, and organize corrective maintenance efforts.
• Coordinate planned outages through the FLEX/FLUX outage management system. Work closely with System Operations, Transmission Operations, Regional Supervisors, Engineering, and Project Management personnel to obtain clearances, optimize outage opportunities, and maintain system reliability.
• Achieve higher equipment availability and improve maintenance effectiveness through pre‑job coordination activities, such as on‑site walkdowns, organizing tasks in a logical manner, interfacing with internal and external customers, requesting appropriate clearances, arranging for material and equipment staging, and communicating scheduled activities to craft and maintenance management employees.
• Monitor and prioritize maintenance backlog to ensure timely execution of preventive, predictive, corrective, compliance, and reliability‑related work activities based on risk, equipment criticality, and resource availability.
• Actively engage in ongoing reliability, availability, and maintainability improvement efforts, including Preventative Maintenance Optimization (PMO), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Develop and continuously improve personal and departmental planning and scheduling work processes by incorporating maintenance and reliability best practices and feedback from field personnel.

Requires a high school diploma and relevant experience. Prefer a technical degree, bachelor’s degree, or other related degree that will enhance the candidate’s knowledge, skills, and ability to successfully perform this job.

• Expert level knowledge of safe work practices regarding the repair and maintenance of substation equipment such as transformers, switch gear, circuit breakers, fuses, capacitors, distribution bus, voltage regulators, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to read, interpret and apply information from equipment files, drawings, catalogs, reports, and manuals; as well as performing the basic mathematical computations involved in planning, scheduling, estimating, and purchasing.
• High level of proficiency using Maximo, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel applications; along with strong technical writing skills and keyboarding competency.
• Self‑starter with excellent organizational and time/priority management skills – work with little supervision.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities in a highly demanding team atmosphere – keep multiple jobs in controlled motion simultaneously.
• Excellent interpersonal skills – the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other personnel including peers, managers, customers, contractors, and other contacts.

Successful candidate must possess and maintain a valid driver's license.

Most of the time will be spent in an office environment, with some time being spent in maintenance shops or t have a satisfactory work record including good attendance.