Salary Range: $100,000.00 - $125,000.00
Position Overview:The Maintenance Planner plays a critical role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient execution of maintenance activities across MP Materials operations. This position is responsible for developing, coordinating, and managing preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance plans and schedules to support operational readiness and equipment reliability.
The Maintenance Planner works closely with Maintenance, Operations, Procurement, Warehouse, and Reliability teams to ensure maintenance work is properly prioritized, planned, documented, and executed with minimal operational disruption. This role supports continuous improvement initiatives by maintaining accurate maintenance data, optimizing maintenance resources, and driving schedule compliance through SAP PM and maintenance planning best practices.
Position Responsibilities:- Provide leadership and direction to the maintenance team, ensuring efficient and effective execution of maintenance activities.
- Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs to minimize downtime and maximize equipment reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to optimize maintenance schedules while minimizing impact on production.
- Plan and coordinate maintenance projects, including shutdowns and turnarounds, ensuring timely completion within budget constraints.
- Monitor equipment performance, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance equipment reliability and performance.
- Maintain and update maintenance records, work orders, and documentation to ensure accurate historical records and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and company policies, fostering a culture of safety among the maintenance team.
- Identify training needs for maintenance staff and facilitate skill development and training programs.
- Manage maintenance budgets, track expenses, and provide cost-effective solutions for maintenance and repair projects.
- Collaborate with procurement to ensure the availability of necessary spare parts and materials for maintenance activities.
- Lead and participate in root cause analysis investigations for equipment failures and incidents, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Stay current with industry best practices, emerging technologies, and advancements in maintenance techniques.
Basic Qualifications:- Provide leadership and direction to the maintenance team, ensuring efficient and effective execution of maintenance activities.
- Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs to minimize downtime and maximize equipment reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to optimize maintenance schedules while minimizing impact on production.
- Plan and coordinate maintenance projects, including shutdowns and turnarounds, ensuring timely completion within budget constraints.
- Monitor equipment performance, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance equipment reliability and performance.
- Maintain and update maintenance records, work orders, and documentation to ensure accurate historical records and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and company policies, fostering a culture of safety among the maintenance team.
- Identify training needs for maintenance staff and facilitate skill development and training programs.
- Manage maintenance budgets, track expenses, and provide cost-effective solutions for maintenance and repair projects.
- Collaborate with procurement to ensure the availability of necessary spare parts and materials for maintenance activities.
- Lead and participate in root cause analysis investigations for equipment failures and incidents, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Stay current with industry best practices, emerging technologies, and advancements in maintenance techniques.
Desired Qualities:- Provide leadership and direction to the maintenance team, ensuring efficient and effective execution of maintenance activities.
- Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs to minimize downtime and maximize equipment reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to optimize maintenance schedules while minimizing impact on production.
- Plan and coordinate maintenance projects, including shutdowns and turnarounds, ensuring timely completion within budget constraints.
- Monitor equipment performance, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance equipment reliability and performance.
- Maintain and update maintenance records, work orders, and documentation to ensure accurate historical records and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and company policies, fostering a culture of safety among the maintenance team.
- Identify training needs for maintenance staff and facilitate skill development and training programs.
- Manage maintenance budgets, track expenses, and provide cost-effective solutions for maintenance and repair projects.
- Collaborate with procurement to ensure the availability of necessary spare parts and materials for maintenance activities.
- Lead and participate in root cause analysis investigations for equipment failures and incidents, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Stay current with industry best practices, emerging technologies, and advancements in maintenance techniques.
Working Conditions - Our facility sits at an elevation of 4,700 feet. Employees may be subject to extreme weather conditions when working in an outdoor setting (heat and cold, wind). Work is at an open pit mine or manufacturing/chemical plant setting, which may include exposure to moving mechanical parts, toxic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, explosives, fumes, or airborne particles.
Physical Demands - Manual dexterity; sense of touch; sense of smell; speaking clearly; hearing-speech range; hearing - all ranges; seeing, reading and comprehensions; seeing - distant/near; depth perception; color vision. While performing the job responsibilities, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to stand and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel and to manipulate laboratory equipment. The employee is occasionally required to walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Employees must pass a full-face respiratory fit test. Employees must be able to lift 50 lbs. Must be able to work in PPE level C. These requirements are representative, but not all-inclusive, of the knowledge, skill, and ability required of the employee.
