Maintenance Planner & Reliability Lead - Transformers

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; South Boston (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy USA Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Planner and Reliability Lead to shape maintenance strategies for our Medium Power Transformer operations in a fast-paced manufacturing setting.

You will own planning, analytics, and CMMS governance, coordinating with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain to improve asset reliability, safety, and throughput. This role emphasizes data-driven decisions and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in maintenance planning or reliability.
• Experience with CMMS/EAM systems (SAP PM, eMaint, Infor, or equivalent).
• Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance and asset reliability.
• Proficient Excel and data reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain preventive maintenance plans, job plans, asset records, PM libraries, and equipment hierarchies within the CMMS.
• Create and manage weekly, monthly, shutdown, outage, and long-range maintenance schedules.
• Analyze maintenance and asset performance data and develop KPIs, dashboards, and reporting tools to support data-driven decisions.
• Lead maintenance planning processes, including work prioritization, backlog management, scheduling, and workflow compliance.
• Ensure labor, materials, tooling, permits, documentation, and job kits are ready before work execution.
• Coordinate major maintenance shutdowns and collaborate with internal teams, contractors, and service providers.
• Support TPM, RCM, RCA, continuous improvement, and reliability programs that improve equipment effectiveness.
• Partner across Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Safety teams to improve reliability, efficiency, and operational performance.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

CMMS governance

Maintenance analytics

Data analysis (Excel)

Cross-functional collaboration

Asset reliability

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Maintenance Management

Tools

SAP PM

eMaint

Infor

Job description

Hitachi Energy USA Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Planner and Reliability Lead to shape maintenance strategies for our Medium Power Transformer operations in a fast-paced manufacturing setting.

You will own planning, analytics, and CMMS governance, coordinating with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain to improve asset reliability, safety, and throughput. This role emphasizes data-driven decisions and continuous improvement.