The Maintenance Planner plays a critical role in ensuring equipment reliability and uptime by planning, coordinating, and scheduling preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. This role serves as a central point of contact between production, maintenance teams, and support functions to ensure all planned downtime activities are executed safely, efficiently, and with minimal impact to operations. The schedule for this position will be 02:00PM - 10:00PM; Monday - Friday.
Convert reactive events to PMs and PdMs to maximize equipment reliability and reduce waste. Perform regular audits to ensure task integrity and identify improvements
Participate in weekly planning meetings to align upcoming work and resolve scheduling conflicts. Collaborate with technicians and supervisors to maintain work plan visibility and status updates
Ensure all job plans and activities include required safety and compliance protocols (LOTO, PPE, Arc Flash, ISO9001 etc.)
Break down work orders into executable tasks, including estimated labor hours, tools, safety requirements, materials, and sequence of operations
Partner with Technicians to improve the CMMS data set through record keeping best practices and process optimization. Partner with reliability engineers and supervisors to analyze downtime and identify failure patterns
Maintain user data and ensure users are onboarded and offboarded promptly as required Calculate and monitor technician utilization metrics and communicate labor requirements to management
Other duties as assigned by the M2 and M3 Managers
3+ years of experience in maintenance planning or high-volume manufacturing environments
Strong understanding of maintenance best practices: PMs, PdMs, TPM, backlog management, and reliability-centered maintenance
Proficient with CMMS software, MES, inventory systems, and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)
Technical familiarity with equipment such as precision motion systems, pneumatic systems, vision systems, servo motors, and basic PLC-based automation
Working knowledge of safety practices and standards (LOTO, NFPA70E, 5S, etc.)
Must have command of the English language, both written and verbal
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire: