Maintenance Planner

GCC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

GCC is seeking a detail-oriented Maintenance Planner to coordinate plant maintenance, improve equipment reliability, and drive operational efficiency in heavy industrial environments.

Ideal candidates will have industrial maintenance planning experience, SAP or similar CMMS, and a proven ability to manage work orders, parts, and budgets with strong communication and organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or similar engineering degree.
• 2+ years’ experience in an industrial environment.
• Experience with SAP or similar platform.
• Predictive and preventative maintenance experience.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and track daily maintenance and major repairs for the plant.
• Document and keep predictive, preventive, and SOPs up to date.
• Prioritize schedules and coordinate maintenance activities with all departments.
• Identify parts, tools, and manpower; estimate completion times.
• Oversee parts availability with procurement; manage suppliers.
• Record labor hours, materials, and notes; close work orders timely.
• Maintain BOM records and manage SAP PM work order backlog.

Skills

Planning

Maintenance planning

Predictive maintenance

Preventive maintenance

Communication

Organizational skills

Computer skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP

Job description

We are seeking a detail-oriented and mechanically minded Maintenance Planner who excels at coordinating maintenance activities, improving equipment reliability, and driving operational efficiency. The ideal candidate has experience in industrial maintenance planning, preventive and predictive maintenance programs, work order management, and SAP or similar maintenance systems. They are highly organized, skilled at managing multiple priorities, and effective at collaborating with maintenance, operations, and procurement teams to ensure safe and efficient execution of maintenance work. Experience in manufacturing, mining, cement, construction materials, or other heavy industrial environments is preferred.

What you will do:

This position plans, coordinates and tracks the daily maintenance and major repairs for the plant. In addition, they are responsible for documenting and ensuring that the predictive, preventative, and standard operating procedures are documented and up to date.

Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

• Works closely with all departments to prioritize the work schedules and the coordination of all maintenance activities.
• Monitors notifications daily.Investigate all maintenance requests and plans for repair.
• Developing annual, monthly, weekly, and daily work schedules, in addition to the planning of the step-by-step execution of major equipment outages.
• Identify parts required to execute work, tool requirements, manpower requirements, and the estimated completion time.
• Oversee the availability of parts for all work orders scheduled by working closely with the procurement department in ordering, receiving, purchasing of parts and the selection of suppliers to maintain the schedule.
• Ensure all labor hours, materials, and necessary notes or procedural changes associated with the work are accurately recorded, and work is closed in a timely manner.
• Consolidate the details of major repairs; create the SOPs for critical and recurrent jobs.
• Manage SAP user and PM workorder backlog.
• Participate in the creation and modification in SAP of preventative maintenance routines (PMRs) and bills of materials (BOMs).
• Work closely with the procurement department in controlling and reducing inventory by establishing and reviewing maximums/minimums, critical parts list, reordering of parts, and identifying obsolete parts.
• Responsible for maintaining and keeping up to date the Bill of Materials (BOM) records.
• Develop and maintain files such as: Blueprints, equipment lists, suppliers list, operating and maintenance manuals, drawings, checklists, spare parts lists, corrective maintenance details, maintenance history.
• Assist Maintenance Manager in the preparation of the annual maintenance budget.
• Facilitate planning meetings to recommend the necessary repairs based on input from the Production and other plant departments.
• Manage the communication of the weekly maintenance plan including Preventive, Corrective and outage planning.
• Lead the planning/scheduling of the major shutdown and provide support & coordination during execution stage.
• On occasion and as needed, supervise contractors and mechanical maintenance team in the field.
• Participate in the on-call schedule by being the primary contact and direct supervisor of emergency repair work.
• Works with CI team to ensure all goals, KPI projects and ideas are entered at Enablon system.
• Set the proper example in attitude, punctuality, and use of Continuous Improvement tools.
• Performs other duties, as assigned.

Experience and abilities you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or similar engineering degree required.
• Must have 2 or more years’ experience working in an industrial environment.
• Must have a mechanical background with emphasis on planning.
• Experience in SAP or a similar platform
• Predictive and preventative maintenance
• Computer skills
• Communication skills
• Organizational skills & attention to detail

Who we are:

GCC is a world-class company that produces, distributes, and markets cement, ready-mixed concrete, aggregates, and innovative products related to the construction industries in Mexico and the United States. We take pride in being a market leader with a culture of innovation, high performance, and safety. GCC offers a very competitive benefits program including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability insurance plans, and a 401K.

You will love working here because:

At GCC, employees are our most important resource. As a part of the GCC family, you'll be welcomed into a culture that promotes the company vision and internal career growth. Our company vision is to have our customers recognize us as a business partner that generates the most value for their construction projects. We're a sustainable growing company, a great place to work, and a solid investment for our shareholders. GCC is an enterprise with a global and sustainable approach. Our production is mainly devoted to the manufacture and sale of gray Portland cement, mortar, premixed concrete, concrete blocks, plaster, aggregates, and other construction materials. Join the family!

An Equal Opportunity Employer

GCC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job-related factors.