Manager Maintenance - Planning Find your more with Mohawk! What we need: Mohawk is looking for a Maintenance Planning Manager to drive planning, scheduling, and storeroom excellence across the site. This role provides direction for planners, schedulers, and storeroom operations while ensuring high-quality job planning, accurate materials readiness, and disciplined work management. This role will own maintenance planning governance, oversee weekly and long-range schedules, and lead the preparation and execution of major downtime events. What you'll do: • Provide leadership, direction, and performance management for Maintenance Planners/Schedulers and the Storeroom Supervisor, ensuring clear role ownership, expectations, and accountability. • Establish standard work, priorities, and planning horizons for planners and schedulers to ensure consistent, high-quality job planning and scheduling discipline. • Set expectations for storeroom performance, inventory accuracy, and service levels through the Storeroom Supervisor rather than direct task execution. • Coach and develop team members to improve planning quality, schedule adherence, materials readiness, and data accuracy. • Own and govern the site maintenance work management process, ensuring work is properly scoped, planned, and ready prior to scheduling and execution. • Review and approve planning standards, job plan quality expectations, and backlog management strategies established by the planning team. • Ensure alignment between maintenance priorities, equipment criticality, production needs, and planned downtime opportunities. • Partner with Maintenance Managers, Engineering, and Operations to ensure maintenance planning supports asset reliability and production objectives. • Provide oversight and strategic direction for weekly and daily maintenance scheduling developed by planners and schedulers. • Own accountability for monthly maintenance down days, ensuring scope definition, resource alignment, materials readiness, and execution sequencing are established and adhered to. • Lead long range planning and coordination for biannual maintenance down weeks, ensuring work is identified, planned, resourced, and staged well in advance. • Ensure Down Days and Down Weeks are governed by clear scope control, readiness reviews, and execution expectations to minimize risk and reactive work. • Provide managerial oversight of contractor planning and utilization in support of scheduled down days and extended shutdowns. • Ensure planners appropriately integrate contractor scope, labor hours, skill requirements, and sequencing into maintenance plans and schedules. • Partner with procurement, safety, and maintenance leadership to ensure contractors are properly qualified, aligned, and prepared to execute work safely and efficiently. • Hold planners and supervisors accountable for effective contractor coordination and cost control during planned events. • Serve as the site owner for maintenance work management governance within the CMMS, with strong emphasis on SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) usage and discipline. • Champion potential CMMS integration with SAP • Establish expectations for work order lifecycle management, including planning, releasing, scheduling, confirmation, and close-out accuracy. • Review and act on KPIs related to planning effectiveness, schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog health, and materials availability. • Ensure planners, supervisors, and storeroom leadership are trained and compliant with SAP standards and processes. • Provide managerial oversight of storeroom operations through the Storeroom Supervisor, ensuring inventory accuracy, transaction discipline, and material availability. • Ensure kitting and staging processes support scheduled maintenance work and downtime events without direct involvement in daily storeroom activities. • Align storeroom strategies with maintenance planning requirements, critical spare strategies, and reliability objectives. • Drive cost savings on non-OEM parts and materials, working with vendors, purchasing, and internal customers. • Perform additional responsibilities as needed to support evolving business priorities What you have: • Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred. • 6-8 years' relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience. • 1-3 years of management experience. • PMP Certification Preferred. What you're good at: • Demonstrated experience leading or governing scheduled maintenance down days, outages, or extended shutdowns. • Strong experience using a CMMS, with preference for SAP Plant Maintenance (PM). • Working knowledge of storeroom/parts room and MRO inventory management concepts. • Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline or field. • Focused on and responsible for their team's productivity and collective impact. • Excellent communication, problem solving, and organizational skills. • Able to multitask, prioritize, delegate, and manage time effectively. • High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential data. • Proficient using Microsoft Office Suite products. • Flexible attitude, adaptable to change, team player, and able to handle multiple projects at once. • High degree of professionalism, judgment, maturity, and resourcefulness in the absence of formalized guidelines and procedures. What else? • This employee will be responsible for direct reports. • Occasional exposure to hazardous conditions caused by noise, moving mechanical parts, airborne particles, and other conditions associated with a high-traffic production floor. • Must be able to walk long distances and stand for long periods of time. • Bending, crouching, and stooping may be required. • Must be able to work in non-climate-controlled facilities. • The work environment may be a noisy, high traffic manufacturing production floor. • May be required to work a flexible schedule to include evening and night shifts, weekends, and holidays. • The ability to wear personal protective gear correctly most of the day. • The ability to lift 50 pounds regularly.