Maintenance Planner

MP Materials Corp.; California; On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

MP Materials is seeking a Maintenance Planner to coordinate preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance across operations in Mountain Pass, CA. You will work with Maintenance, Operations, Procurement, Warehouse, and Reliability teams to ensure prioritized, documented, and scheduled maintenance with minimal disruption.

Responsibilities include leading the maintenance team, developing programs to minimize downtime, and driving schedule compliance through SAP PM and best practices.

Qualifications

• Ability to lead maintenance teams and drive safe, reliable execution of tasks.
• Experience building preventive and predictive maintenance plans.
• Collaboration with engineering and operations to optimize schedules.
• Experience planning projects, shutdowns, and turnarounds within budget.
• Monitoring equipment performance and driving reliability improvements.
• Maintaining maintenance records and regulatory compliance.
• Identifying training needs and developing staff skills.
• Managing maintenance budgets and spare parts coordination.
• Conducting root cause analyses and implementing corrective actions.

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.

Skills

Leadership

Maintenance planning

Preventive maintenance

Collaboration

Budget management

Root cause analysis

Safety compliance

Training coordination

Data maintenance

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

$100,000.00 To $125,000.00 Annually

Salary Range: $100,000.00 - $125,000.00

Maintenance Planner

Administration Mountain Pass, CA, US

3 days ago Requisition ID: 2369

Company Overview:

MP Materials (NYSE: MP) is rebuilding American industrial capability for a new era of autonomy, robotics, and electrification.

We are the only U.S. company with a fully integrated rare earth supply chain—from mining and refining to advanced metal and magnet manufacturing. Our products include both the critical materials used to make permanent magnets and the finished magnets themselves—enabling next-generation technologies in robotics, automation, aerospace, transportation, defense, and energy systems. These materials are the foundation of physical AI—the convergence of computation, movement, and control.

We hire ambitious, mission-driven people who want to tackle complex challenges and shape the future of strategic industries. Our culture is rooted in teamwork, resiliency, and integrity, with a deep commitment to operational excellence and national purpose. MP is rapidly evolving from a materials producer into a leading U.S. manufacturer—and our people are driving that transformation.

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.

MP Materials is Proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Aff…

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Underrepresented groups/Women/Disabled/Veterans are encouraged to apply. Candidates whose disabilities make them unable to meet the position’s requirements will still be considered qualified if they can perform the essential functions of the job with reasonable accommodation.

Your Right to Work – In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment verification document form upon hire.

Safety Provision - Employees are responsible for following all company, industry and regulatory procedures and laws to ensure a safe work environment for themselves and the company. Employees must have a willingness to promote safety among the workforce, participate in Process Hazard Analysis procedures and Pre-Startup Safety Reviews.

(PPE) Personal Protective Equipment is required when performing work in a mine, manufacturing, outdoor, or plant environment. Required PPE may include, but is not limited to, hard hat, hearing protection, safety glasses, safety footwear, respirator, rubber steel-toe boots, protective clothing, gloves, and any other protective equipment as required.

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.