Maintenance Planner

Materion Corporation•Elmore, OH

18d•$79,200 - $103,950

About The Position

The Maintenance Planner of Primary Operations owns and streamlines maintenance planning activities within their manufacturing area. The role organizes preventive, predictive, corrective, and project maintenance work orders in coordination with Maintenance, Engineering, Operations, Stores, and Procurement. The Planner defines, creates, updates, and modifies work procedures and maintains documentation for administrative and quality purposes. A key focus is on timely delivery of preventive and predictive maintenance plans to optimize asset operation, reduce unplanned equipment downtime, and lower total cost of ownership. The Planner develops detailed work plans, including instructions, safety precautions and PPE, spare parts, tools, craft resources, work duration and sequence, equipment energy state, drawings, and manuals. The role plans corrective work, stages and returns parts and tools, leads planning-prioritization meetings and the annual PM quality review, provides hands-on CMMS training, monitors planning metrics, and maintains accurate asset and maintenance data. The Planner also collaborates across departments, supports outage scheduling and root-cause analysis, and serves as backup Scheduler or Supervisor as area needs require.

Requirements

High school diploma.
Associate degree in a technical or manufacturing-oriented field.
Minimum of 5 years as an A-rate mechanical or electrical technician, or 2 years as a maintenance supervisor.
Experience in an industrial manufacturing or military environment.
Minimum of 5 years of work experience.
Technical equipment maintenance problem-solving, attention to detail, job visualization, proactive mindset, and sequential thinking.
Organization skills, verbal and written communication skills, and computer literacy, including MS Office products and CMMS software.
Must meet the stated export compliance eligibility requirements for access to U.S. controlled technology under ITAR and EAR.

Nice To Haves

Undergraduate degree in an engineering or technical field.
Minimum of 5 years as a technician or 3 years as a supervisor.

Responsibilities

Create detailed plans for repetitive preventive and predictive work using standard work templates, including instructions, safety precautions, PPE, parts, tools, craft resources, duration, task sequence, equipment energy state, drawings, and manuals.
Develop and maintain PM/PdM, overhaul, and replacement strategies for every asset in alignment with the operations schedule strategy.
Turn corrective-maintenance notifications and PM follow-up work into fully planned work orders, standardizing tasks where possible, with an ideal turnaround of 3–5 business days.
Physically stage parts and tools for specific jobs and return unused items to their proper storage locations.
Lead planning-prioritization activities, including regular area maintenance and operations meetings and pre-outage planning meetings.
Lead the annual PM quality review with support from the maintenance team.
Provide hands-on CMMS training, elevate safety issues, and engage in team problem-solving.
Coordinate with Engineering, Storeroom, Procurement, IT, and external suppliers as needed to ensure effective work plans, accurate data capture, and timely availability of parts and tools.
Analyze and monitor area planning metrics, including PM/PdM effectiveness, PM completion, and MTBF; identify potential failures, training needs, and PM updates, elevate issues to management, and execute follow-up or corrective actions.
Maintain accurate equipment data for the responsible area, including PM/PdM and standard work, bills of materials, drawings, manuals, and standard tooling requirements.
Serve as backup Scheduler or Supervisor as area needs require.
Participate in pre-outage scheduling meetings to identify critical-path jobs and required work sequencing.
Assist the Reliability Engineer with data collection and brainstorming for failure root-cause analysis.