Global Maintenance Planning & Cost Excellence Leader

3M Vietnam; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 222,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision benefits

Relocation assistance

Retirement benefits

Job summary

3M is seeking a Corporate Maintenance Planning and Excellence Leader to standardize global maintenance cost management, planning, and scheduling excellence across manufacturing sites. You will drive cost transparency, improve asset reliability, and support sustainable cost performance.

Reporting to the Global Maintenance Director, you will partner with Plant Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain to embed best-in-class planning and controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Technology, completed before start.
• Ten years of experience in maintenance or turnaround cost, planning & scheduling and execution leadership in manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Five years of experience applying strong analytical, financial, and performance management skills.
• Five years of experience leading large-scale, multi-site change initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Establish global maintenance cost strategy, governance, budgeting, and reporting standards.
• Define enterprise guidelines for budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
• Own global maintenance cost KPIs for planning, budgets, and contractor cost.
• Partner with Capital planning and Finance for alignment with targets.
• Establish and deploy global standards for maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Define expectations for planner roles, scheduling cadence, and frozen weeks.
• Drive CMMS/EAM planning workflows, data quality, and reporting.
• Improve schedule compliance, wrench time, and backlog health.
• Assess state, develop global deployment roadmap for performance.
• Lead initiatives on planned vs reactive maintenance, productivity, contractor optimization.
• Establish review cadences for cost and planning with leadership.

Skills

Maintenance cost management

Budgeting & cost control

Planning & scheduling

CMMS/EAM systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

CMMS/EAM systems

Cost analytics platforms

Job description

3M is seeking a Corporate Maintenance Planning and Excellence Leader to standardize global maintenance cost management, planning, and scheduling excellence across manufacturing sites. You will drive cost transparency, improve asset reliability, and support sustainable cost performance.

Reporting to the Global Maintenance Director, you will partner with Plant Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain to embed best-in-class planning and controls.