Maintenance Planner/Analyst
On-siteAuburn, New Hampshire, United States
Job Summary
Own and develop company-wide maintenance planning standards, work-order readiness requirements, and planning workflows. Create standardized job plans, parts lists, and templates for recurring maintenance activities while auditing adherence to data standards and implementing routine system improvements. Analyze repeat failures, downtime, and inventory trends to identify risks and coordinate root-cause investigations with superintendents, mechanics, and vendors. Recommend corrective actions, optimize parts consumption, and establish reorder points to improve parts availability and work readiness. Serve as the functional owner of the maintenance and work-order system, managing data standards, failure codes, and workflow design. Train users, evaluate performance metrics across shops and equipment classes, and coordinate cross-functional improvements with stakeholders across multiple locations. Approximately 25% travel is expected among company shops and divisions, with occasional overnight travel required.
Required Qualifications
- Advanced knowledge of maintenance planning, preventive maintenance processes, work-order readiness, and reliability-improvement practices in a heavy-equipment or industrial environment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to select appropriate methods, interpret complex maintenance and inventory data, identify material risks, and formulate well supported recommendations
- Working knowledge of root-cause analysis methods and the ability to coordinate cross-functional investigations and evaluate corrective-action alternatives
- Strong knowledge of parts-demand planning, critical-spares analysis, inventory controls, stocking level analysis, and parts standardization concepts
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and related data-analysis and reporting tools
- Ability to develop standards, workflows, job plans, training materials, and process documentation and to influence employees and leaders across multiple locations without direct authority
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently, exercise sound judgment within assigned areas, recognize matters requiring escalation, and maintain accurate, complete, and reliable information
- Experience analyzing maintenance, reliability, parts, or inventory data and developing recommendations based on identified trends
- Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Excel or comparable data-analysis tools
- Experience with root-cause analysis, standardized job planning, parts-demand planning, or inventory optimization
- Prolonged periods of sitting and computer work, with regular standing and walking in maintenance shops, parts-storage areas, yards, and around heavy equipment
- Periodic lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling of parts, supplies, or materials weighing up to 50 pounds
- Ability to bend, stoop, reach, climb onto or around equipment when necessary, and safely navigate uneven surfaces
- Ability to wear required personal protective equipment when entering maintenance, warehouse, yard, or field environments
- Work is performed in office, maintenance-shop, parts-storage, warehouse, yard, and equipment environments and may involve exposure to noise, dust, oils, moving equipment, weather conditions, temperature variations, and uneven surfaces
- Frequent coordination is required with the Equipment Manager, Service Superintendents, mechanics, ESG, Operations, Purchasing, parts personnel, and other stakeholders across multiple operating locations
- The position requires independent analytical work, cross-functional influence, professional discretion, and consistent adherence to established safety requirements when working in or around active maintenance and equipment areas
- Approximately 25% travel is expected among Company shops, divisions, and other operating locations
- Occasional overnight travel may be required based on business, system, reliability, and maintenance planning needs
- You have at least three years of experience in maintenance planning, reliability, parts, inventory, heavy equipment, asset management, or a related environment
- Experience administering or serving as a functional owner of a computerized maintenance management, fleet, asset-management, or work-order system
- High School Diploma (or equivalent)
- A technical degree in maintenance, equipment technology, industrial technology, reliability, supply chain, data analysis, or a related field
Desired Qualifications
- system administration or functional ownership experience
- a technical degree in maintenance, equipment technology, industrial technology, reliability, supply chain, data analysis, or a related field
- an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- recently separated from Military service
- Dedication, enthusiasm, hard work, integrity, honesty, and responsibility
- good communicators
- highly competitive
- work together effectively to get the job done
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