General Assembly Maintenance Planner

General Motors LLC; United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors LLC in the United States is seeking a skilled Maintenance Assembly Planner to coordinate and prepare maintenance work for safe, reliable operation of paint and manufacturing equipment. You will develop job plans, schedule planned work, and improve preventive-maintenance effectiveness across multiple teams.

You will create and monitor work orders, prioritize tasks, coordinate with trades, operations, and suppliers, and ensure accurate labor, materials, and documentation to support

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, and coordination across multiple teams.
• Ability to read manuals, drawings, and procedures and interpret BOMs.
• Commitment to safe work practices and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Review maintenance requests, equipment issues, inspection findings, and preventive-maintenance requirements for the paint department.
• Develop complete work packages that define scope, sequence, labor, tools, materials, permits, safety controls, and duration.
• Create, update, and monitor work orders, job plans, preventive-maintenance tasks, routes, and equipment records in the CMMS.
• Prioritize maintenance work with leadership based on safety, regulatory requirements, equipment criticality, production impact, and resources.
• Coordinate daily and weekly maintenance planning with leaders, trades, operations, and engineering.
• Plan shutdowns, weekends, outages, and major repairs including sequencing, contractor coordination, material readiness, and scheduling.
• Confirm parts, tools, equipment, drawings, procedures, permits, and technical support are available before scheduling.
• Partner with stores and purchasing to identify parts, stocking levels, shortages, and POS availability.
• Review equipment history and downtime data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Support root-cause investigations and implement corrective actions to reduce repeats.
• Coordinate with suppliers and contractors on estimates, scope, site access, safety, execution, and closeout.
• Support maintenance work involving paint process equipment, conveyors, robots, pumps, fans, ovens, booths, process systems, utilities, controls, and environmental equipment.
• Verify completed work orders contain accurate labor, parts, failure info, follow-ups, and documentation.
• Maintain equipment records, BOMs, PM procedures, inspection routes, drawings, manuals, and standards.
• Participate in priority meetings, shutdown reviews, reliability reviews, and continuous-improvement activities.
• Support safe work planning, including lockout and energy-control requirements, pre-task planning, and permits where applicable.
• Prepare and communicate maintenance schedules, backlog reports, project updates, risks, and completion status to leadership.
• Help develop and maintain standardized work for maintenance planning and improve quality, timeliness, and execution of planned work.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

Communication

Safety & compliance

Problem solving

Education

Associate or bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Maximo

MS Office

Job description

The Role

The General Assembly Maintenance Planner coordinates and prepares maintenance work so equipment and facilities can operate safely, reliably, and efficiently. This role develops job plans, schedules planned work, improves preventive-maintenance effectiveness, coordinates parts and resources, and supports maintenance leadership with accurate work-order information and performance reporting. The planner works closely with maintenance group leaders, skilled trades, operations, manufacturing/process engineering, safety, quality, purchasing, stores, suppliers, and contractors. The role helps convert equipment needs into executable work that improves safety, uptime, throughput, quality, cost, and environmental performance.

What You’ll Do

• Review maintenance requests, equipment issues, inspection findings, and preventive-maintenance requirements for the paint department.
• Develop complete work packages that define the scope, sequence, labor requirements, skills, tools, materials, permits, safety controls, and estimated duration for planned work.
• Create, update, and monitor work orders, job plans, preventive-maintenance tasks, routes, and equipment records in the computerized maintenance-management system.
• Prioritize maintenance work with department leadership based on safety, regulatory requirements, equipment criticality, production impact, quality risk, and available resources.
• Coordinate daily and weekly maintenance planning with maintenance group leaders, skilled trades, operations, manufacturing engineering, and other affected departments.
• Plan shutdown, weekend, outage, and major repair activities, including work sequencing, contractor coordination, material readiness, and schedule tracking.
• Confirm that required parts, tools, equipment, drawings, procedures, permits, and technical support are available before work is scheduled.
• Partner with stores and purchasing to identify replacement parts, establish appropriate stocking levels, resolve material shortages, and support point-of-use availability.
• Review equipment history, recurring failures, backlog, downtime, preventive-maintenance compliance, and other maintenance data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Support root-cause investigations and develop corrective actions that reduce repeat failures and improve equipment reliability.
• Coordinate with suppliers and contractors on estimates, scope, site access, safety requirements, work execution, and closeout documentation.
• Support maintenance work involving paint process equipment, conveyors, robots, pumps, fans, ovens, booths, pretreatment, electrocoat, sealer, material systems, utilities, controls, and environmental equipment.
• Verify that completed work orders contain accurate labor, parts, failure information, follow-up actions, and technical documentation.
• Maintain current equipment records, bills of material, preventive-maintenance procedures, inspection routes, drawings, manuals, and maintenance standards.
• Participate in maintenance priority meetings, shutdown reviews, equipment buyoffs, reliability reviews, and continuous-improvement activities.
• Support safe work planning, including lockout, energy-control requirements, confined-space or hot-work planning when applicable, pre-task planning, and required permits.
• Prepare and communicate maintenance schedules, backlog reports, project updates, risks, and completion status to department leadership.
• Help develop and maintain standardized work for maintenance planning and improve the quality, timeliness, and execution of planned work.

Your Skills & Abilities

• Experience in maintenance, maintenance planning, scheduling, manufacturing engineering, facilities, or industrial operations.
• Working knowledge of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, corrective maintenance, work-order management, and equipment reliability practices.
• Ability to read and interpret equipment manuals, maintenance procedures, technical drawings, electrical schematics, and bills of material.
• Ability to work effectively with skilled trades, maintenance leadership, production, engineering, suppliers, and contractors.
• Strong organization, prioritization, communication, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to work effectively with skilled trades, maintenance leadership, production, engineering, suppliers, and contractors.
• Commitment to safe work practices, environmental compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Flexibility to work any shift, including weekends and overtime as required.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, industrial technology, or a related field is preferred.
• Experience in an automotive manufacturing or paint shop environment.
• Experience planning maintenance for conveyors, pumps, motors, drives, ovens, booths, robots, process systems, utilities, or environmental equipment.
• Experience with Maximo or another computerized maintenance-management system, including work-order reporting, job plans, preventive-maintenance schedules, asset records, and bills of material.
• Knowledge of maintenance shutdown planning, contractor management, equipment buyoffs, and production-support activities.
• Familiarity with reliability-centered maintenance, total productive maintenance, failure-mode analysis, root-cause problem solving, and lean manufacturing.
• Knowledge of lockout, energy-control requirements, pre-task planning, hazard recognition, and plant safety systems.
• Ability to develop clear job plans and estimate labor, materials, tools, equipment, and work duration.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance-management system or comparable work-order system.
• Experience using Microsoft Office, maintenance reporting tools, equipment history, downtime data, or dashboard applications.
• Technical experience with mechanical, electrical, controls, pipefitting, millwright, or industrial equipment systems.
• Ability to manage UAW employees.

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