Maintenance Planner

Guardian Industries; Carleton (MI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Glass is seeking a Maintenance Planner to strengthen equipment reliability and streamline maintenance execution in Carleton, MI. You will coordinate labor, parts, materials, and access to ensure safe, well-coordinated work between Production and Maintenance teams.

You will maintain the CMMS data, develop safe work plans, and prioritize the weekly forecast to minimize delays and maximize uptime in a manufacturing setting.

Qualifications

• Experience planning or coordinating maintenance work in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience using preventive or predictive maintenance methods.
• Experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Experience working with industrial mechanical systems, such as hydraulics, pneumatics, or mechanical drive components.

Responsibilities

• Review maintenance requests and develop safe, efficient work plans that define labor, parts, materials, equipment access, and job requirements.
• Plan and schedule preventive, predictive, and non-demand maintenance work in partnership with Production, Maintenance, and Area Leaders.
• Maintain work orders, equipment information, and maintenance plans in the CMMS.
• Create and update preventive maintenance procedures and Job Safety Analyses for non-standard work.
• Prioritize planned and emerging work based on safety, production impact, business needs, and cost, and provide a weekly work forecast.
• Improve reliability and maintenance productivity by identifying potential delays, optimizing available resources, and supporting capability development across the team.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Preventive maintenance

CMMS usage

Mechanical systems

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Your Job

Guardian Glass is looking for a Maintenance Planner to join our team in Carleton, MI!

In this role you will help strengthen equipment reliability and maintenance execution. You will turn maintenance needs into safe, well-coordinated work by aligning people, parts, materials, and equipment access. You will serve as an important connection between Production and Maintenance, helping the team reduce delays, improve work quality, and make the best use of maintenance resources.

Our Team

Our Maintenance team partners closely with Production, technicians, supervisors, Area Leaders, Reliability Coordinators, and fellow planners to prioritize and execute work safely and efficiently. This role helps bring those groups together around clear work plans, available resources, and shared reliability priorities.

What You Will Do

• Review maintenance requests and develop safe, efficient work plans that define labor, parts, materials, equipment access, and job requirements.
• Plan and schedule preventive, predictive, and non-demand maintenance work in partnership with Production, Maintenance, and Area Leaders.
• Maintain work orders, equipment information, and maintenance plans in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Create and update preventive maintenance procedures and Job Safety Analyses for non-standard work.
• Prioritize planned and emerging work based on safety, production impact, business needs, and cost, and provide a weekly work forecast.
• Improve reliability and maintenance productivity by identifying potential delays, optimizing available resources, and supporting capability development across the team.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience planning or coordinating maintenance work in a manufacturing or industrial environment
• Experience using preventive or predictive maintenance methods
• Experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Experience working with industrial mechanical systems, such as hydraulics, pneumatics, or mechanical drive components

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience using Infor EAM or another enterprise asset management system
• Experience using maintenance performance data to identify reliability or planning improvement opportunities

This role is not eligible for sponsorship.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world's largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You'll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world's most iconic projects.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.