Maintenance Planner

Base Power Company • Austin, TX

21d • Onsite

About The Position

Base is seeking a Maintenance Planner to support facilities and production-line equipment reliability. The role is part of the Facilities and Maintenance team and focuses on planning preventive maintenance, scheduling repairs, tracking parts, and ensuring technicians are assigned the right work at the right time. Planning helps keep production moving when equipment or a line is at risk of downtime.

The planner will help establish maintenance programs and systems for Base Factory 1 as the company scales production of home battery systems. The work includes preventive maintenance, spare-parts strategy, equipment reliability, and facility operations. The role offers an opportunity to build maintenance processes from the ground up and contribute directly to production output, quality, and company growth. Base is a startup, so priorities and responsibilities may evolve with business needs. The company works in person and describes its environment as not a 9-to-5 and all-in.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in maintenance planning or scheduling, ideally in a manufacturing or production environment.
• Experience using a CMMS such as MaintainX, Maximo, SAP, or a similar system.
• Ability to read equipment manuals and basic mechanical and electrical schematics.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage and prioritize multiple work orders.
• Clear communication skills for coordinating between technicians, vendors, and production leaders.
• Experience with equipment spare-parts bills of materials (BOMs).
• Knowledge of spare-parts crib management.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain preventive maintenance schedules for facilities systems, including HVAC, electrical, and building infrastructure, and for production-line equipment.
• Convert maintenance requests into work orders and prioritize them based on urgency, safety, and production impact.
• Track spare-parts and inventory for production equipment and order parts before supplies run out.
• Coordinate technicians, vendors, and outside contractors to schedule work around production and minimize downtime.
• Maintain accurate CMMS records, including work orders, asset history, and downtime.
• Track maintenance costs and flag equipment that costs more to repair than replace.
• Run weekly planning meetings with maintenance and production leads to review backlog and upcoming work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed