Reliability & Maintenance Lead, Medium Power Transformers

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; South Boston (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in South Boston, Virginia, is seeking a Maintenance Planner and Reliability Lead for Medium Power Transformers. You will own maintenance planning, scheduling, CMMS governance, analytics, and work management to ensure critical assets perform at peak levels.

Collaborating with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain, you will develop maintenance strategies, optimize schedules, drive data-driven decisions, and support continuous improvement initiatives in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years in maintenance planning, reliability, or similar manufacturing roles.
• Experience with CMMS/EAM systems such as SAP PM, eMaint, Infor or equivalents.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain preventive maintenance plans, PM libraries, asset records, and equipment hierarchies in CMMS.
• Create and manage weekly, monthly, shutdown, outage, and long-range maintenance schedules.
• Analyze maintenance and asset data to develop KPIs, dashboards, and reports for decisions.
• Lead maintenance planning processes: prioritization, backlog, scheduling, workflow compliance.
• Ensure labor, materials, tooling, permits, docs, and job kits are ready before work.
• Coordinate major maintenance shutdowns with internal teams, contractors, and service providers.
• Support TPM, RCM, RCA and continuous improvement programs to boost equipment effectiveness.
• Partner with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality and Safety teams to improve reliability.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

CMMS governance

Maintenance analytics

Materials readiness

Work management

Preventive maintenance

Asset reliability

Data-driven insights

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP PM

eMaint

Infor

Job description

Hitachi Energy in South Boston, Virginia, is seeking a Maintenance Planner and Reliability Lead for Medium Power Transformers. You will own maintenance planning, scheduling, CMMS governance, analytics, and work management to ensure critical assets perform at peak levels.

Collaborating with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain, you will develop maintenance strategies, optimize schedules, drive data-driven decisions, and support continuous improvement initiatives in a