Maintenance Planner — Drive Uptime at a Battery Factory

Panasonic Corporation of North America; De Soto (KS); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Panasonic Energy is expanding its De Soto, Kansas facility and seeks a Maintenance Planner to coordinate maintenance activities, optimize schedules, and support reliability improvements. The role bridges Production, Engineering, and Operations to ensure planned work aligns with asset management best practices and safety standards.

You will work with internal teams to schedule preventative and reactive maintenance, manage resources, and drive continuous improvement across the site’s maintenance

Qualifications

• Coordinate and prepare maintenance resources across daily to annual schedules.
• Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Operations to plan maintenance in the CMMS.
• Ensure availability of personnel, materials, and approvals for maintenance work.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and prepare all maintenance resources and activities according to employee skillsets while maintaining comprehensive schedules for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual maintenance activities
• Collaborate with internal teams to coordinate, plan, and schedule all maintenance activities within the maintenance management system, including preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, repairs, calibrations, equipment updates, projects, and other maintenance activities
• Ensure resource availability when planning maintenance schedules and performance expectations, including maintenance and operations personnel, materials, documentation, work orders, change orders, parts availability, and required approvals
• Organize and coordinate unscheduled and emergency equipment repairs while partnering with production and operations teams to minimize downtime
• Conduct initial screening of incoming repair requests and maintenance work orders and coordinate with inventory, parts, and maintenance teams to establish appropriate planning levels
• Participate with maintenance and production teams to maximize equipment availability, reliability, and operational performance
• Adhere to industry best practices for asset management planning and scheduling
• Continuously improve, develop, implement, and maintain compliance with the PanaCIM system and associated maintenance processes
• Support initiatives that improve equipment reliability, maintenance efficiency, and overall operational effectiveness
• Audit work order assignments to ensure proper prioritization, completion, and resource allocation
• Provide support to maintenance personnel regarding planning processes, maintenance scheduling, and system utilization
• Integrate new equipment and maintenance strategies into PanaCIM while validating asset information with Production and Engineering teams
• Collaborate with production, engineering, operations, inventory, and maintenance teams to ensure maintenance activities are properly planned, communicated, and executed
• Effectively communicate Maintenance Department initiatives, strategies, goals, concerns, and observations to stakeholders and leadership
• Prepare reports and performance metrics utilizing tracking tools and KPIs within PanaCIM to ensure maintenance objectives and performance goals are achieved
• Support proper implementation of maintenance processes and procedures to ensure compliance with company standards and operational requirements
• Uphold 6S initiatives and ensure area cleanliness is maintained to safety and operational standards
• Ability to work all scheduled shift hours
• To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees, wearing PPE is a possibility and may include equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, bump cap, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator

Job description

Panasonic Energy is expanding its De Soto, Kansas facility and seeks a Maintenance Planner to coordinate maintenance activities, optimize schedules, and support reliability improvements. The role bridges Production, Engineering, and Operations to ensure planned work aligns with asset management best practices and safety standards.

You will work with internal teams to schedule preventative and reactive maintenance, manage resources, and drive continuous improvement across the site’s maintenance