Maintenance Planner and Reliability Lead Medium Power Transformers

Hitachi•South Boston, VA

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Hitachi Energy and help shape the reliability, performance, and efficiency of its Medium Power Transformer manufacturing operations. The role owns maintenance planning, scheduling, CMMS governance, maintenance analytics, materials readiness, and work management processes. It supports critical manufacturing asset performance while promoting safety, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines. The position develops maintenance strategies, optimizes schedules and resources, enhances asset reliability, and uses data-driven insights to improve equipment performance. It works closely with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Safety, and Supply Chain teams to support productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED required.
Minimum 5 years of experience in maintenance planning, industrial maintenance, reliability, manufacturing operations, or related technical environments.
Experience using CMMS/EAM systems such as SAP PM, eMaint, Infor, or equivalent platforms.
Strong knowledge of maintenance planning, scheduling, work management, asset reliability, and preventive maintenance programs.
Ability to analyze maintenance and operational data using Excel, reporting tools, and maintenance systems.
Excellent communication, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, Industrial Technology, Business Analytics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain preventive maintenance plans, job plans, asset records, PM libraries, and equipment hierarchies within the CMMS.
Create and manage weekly, monthly, shutdown, outage, and long-range maintenance schedules.
Analyze maintenance and asset performance data and develop KPIs, dashboards, and reporting tools to support data-driven decisions.
Lead maintenance planning processes, including work prioritization, backlog management, scheduling, and workflow compliance.
Ensure labor, materials, tooling, permits, documentation, and job kits are ready before work execution.
Coordinate major maintenance shutdowns and collaborate with internal teams, contractors, and service providers.
Support TPM, RCM, RCA, continuous improvement, and reliability programs that improve equipment effectiveness.
Partner across Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Safety teams to improve reliability, efficiency, and operational performance.
Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.