Maintenance Planner

Standard Sand & Silica Company•Davenport, FL

54d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing, leading, and continuously improving the company’s maintenance planning, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, CMMS, and processes across all assigned facilities. This role ensures maintenance work is planned, scheduled, documented, and executed in a manner that improves equipment reliability, reduces unplanned downtime, supports safe operations, and strengthens long-term asset performance.

Requirements

Strong mechanical knowledge in a heavy industrial, mining, aggregates, manufacturing, or similar environment.
Knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance practices.
Experience implementing or managing a CMMS system.
Ability to build asset hierarchies, PM schedules, work order processes, and maintenance workflows.
Ability to develop job plans, schedules, budgets, and project scopes.
Strong understanding of maintenance cost control and budget tracking.
Ability to coordinate employees, contractors, vendors, and plant leadership.
Practical knowledge of industrial equipment, mobile equipment, conveyors, screens, pumps, motors, gearboxes, bearings, structural steel, and related systems.
Understanding of MSHA, OSHA, lockout/tagout, guarding, hot work, contractor safety, and industrial safety practices.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Minimum of 8 years of experience in maintenance, reliability, or heavy industrial operations.
Experience in aggregates, mining, manufacturing, construction materials, trucking, heavy equipment, or similar industrial environment.
Experience using or managing a CMMS system.
Strong mechanical knowledge and practical understanding of maintenance work.
Experience planning maintenance work, managing schedules, and coordinating resources.
Experience managing projects, budgets, contractors, or vendors.

Nice To Haves

Technical, trade, or vocational training in industrial maintenance, mechanical systems, electrical systems, welding, fabrication, reliability, or related field.
Associate or bachelor’s degree in engineering, industrial technology, maintenance management, construction management, or related discipline.
Prior leadership experience supervising maintenance employees, contractors, or project teams.
Experience in surface mining, sand, aggregate, cement, asphalt, concrete, or similar material handling operations.
Experience building a maintenance program from the ground up.
Familiarity with MSHA-regulated work environments.

Responsibilities

Building and managing structured preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
Developing preventive maintenance programs for critical plants, mobile, and support equipment.
Identifying predictive maintenance opportunities, including inspections, condition monitoring, lubrication analysis, vibration checks, and other reliability tools as appropriate.
Establishing maintenance frequencies based on manufacturer recommendations, operating conditions, equipment history, and risk.
Creating clear job plans, schedules, and maintenance workflows.
Developing job plans for maintenance work, repairs, outages, shutdowns, and projects.
Defining labor, materials, tools, equipment, permits, parts, and safety requirements before work begins.
Coordinating maintenance schedules with plant operations to minimize disruption.
Implementing, managing, and improving the company’s Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
Leading implementation and ongoing management of the CMMS system.
Building and maintaining equipment records, asset data, PM schedules, work orders, parts information, and maintenance history.
Training maintenance employees, supervisors, managers, and other users on CMMS processes.
Developing and maintaining asset hierarchies and PM schedules.
Building asset hierarchies for plants, equipment groups, systems, components, and critical assets.
Establishing asset criticality rankings based on safety, production impact, replacement cost, failure risk, and operational importance.
Developing PM schedules by asset type, usage, condition, manufacturer guidance, and field experience.
Ensuring maintenance and project activities are performed safely and in compliance with applicable requirements.
Ensuring maintenance work is performed in accordance with company safety policies, MSHA, OSHA, and site-specific requirements.
Incorporating safety planning into job plans, PMs, shutdowns, and contractor work.
Ensuring proper use of PPE, lockout/tagout, guarding, fall protection, hot work, confined space, mobile equipment safety, and other applicable requirements.
Developing standard processes, performance measures, and reporting tools.
Creating Standard Operating Procedures for maintenance planning, work orders, PMs, CMMS use, and contractor coordination.
Developing maintenance KPIs and reporting processes.
Tracking and reporting key metrics such as PM completion, planned work percentage, downtime, backlog, schedule adherence, maintenance cost, emergency work, and work order aging.
Supporting the Operations’ Managers on daily maintenance activities.
Assisting with daily maintenance priorities across assigned facilities.
Supporting operation’s leaders and maintenance teams to address urgent repairs, planned work, and operational needs.