Maintenance Planner

Job Description

Are you interested in playing a key role in building a strong maintenance planning and scheduling process that supports equipment reliability, technician productivity, and operational readiness at the new LEGO Manufacturing site in Virginia?

The Maintenance Planner plans and schedules preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance work to support safe, reliable, and efficient equipment operation across assigned production areas.  Responsibilities will include the following:

• Will develop detailed job plans including labor requirements, estimated duration, tools, parts, safety requirements, permits, LOTO needs, and any special instructions required to execute work effectively.

• Partners with Maintenance, Production, Engineering, MRO, Safety, and Quality teams to prioritize work, reduce downtime, and ensure maintenance activities are aligned with business and production needs.

• Manages weekly and daily maintenance schedules by balancing equipment availability, technician capacity, production windows, material readiness, and business priorities.

• Ensures parts and materials are available before scheduled work begins by coordinating with MRO, Procurement, vendors, and storeroom teams to prevent delays and improve schedule compliance.

• Maintains accurate CMMS/SAP work order data including job plans, equipment records, labor estimates, work history, backlog status, and maintenance documentation.

• Tracks and reports maintenance planning KPIs such as schedule compliance, backlog, PM completion, wrench time, work order aging, emergency work, and planned vs. unplanned maintenance.

• Drives continuous improvement in maintenance planning processes by improving job plans, standardizing recurring work, identifying reliability trends, and supporting root cause problem solving.

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will help ensure maintenance work is properly planned, parts are

available, priorities are aligned, and the team is prepared to execute work safely and efficiently.  Partner closely with Maintenance, Production, Engineering, MRO, Safety, and Quality teams to reduce downtime, improve schedule compliance, and support the successful startup and long-term performance of our manufacturing operations.

The Maintenance Planning team plays a critical role in ensuring our equipment, people, and processes are ready to support safe and reliable manufacturing operations. The department partners closely with Maintenance, Production, Engineering, MRO, Safety, and Quality to plan work effectively, reduce downtime, improve equipment reliability, and support strong execution across the operation.  As a Maintenance Planner, this role supports the broader organization by turning maintenance needs into clear, executable work plans. By ensuring work orders are properly scoped, parts are available, priorities are aligned, and schedules are realistic, the Maintenance Planner helps technicians perform work safely and efficiently while enabling production teams to meet business

commitments.

“In this role, you help turn maintenance strategy into action. By making sure work is planned, parts are ready, and teams are aligned, you help create a safe, reliable operation that allows our colleagues to focus on what matters most: bringing high-quality LEGO play experiences to life.”

Do you have what it takes?

• Experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, work coordination, or maintenance work management within a manufacturing, automated production, logistics, industrial, or related technical environment.

• Working knowledge of preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, work order management, equipment reliability, and maintenance execution processes.

• Experience using SAP, CMMS, EAM, or similar maintenance management systems to create, plan, schedule, update, and close maintenance work orders.

• Ability to develop clear job plans that include labor estimates, parts, tools, safety requirements, equipment availability, permits, and work instructions.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner across Maintenance, Production, Engineering, MRO, Safety, Quality, Procurement, and vendor teams.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, schedule changes, backlog, urgent work, and material readiness in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred

• Experience using Power BI, Excel, or similar data visualization tools to create maintenance dashboards, KPI visuals, reports, and performance summaries.

• Ability to translate maintenance data into clear insights related to schedule compliance, backlog, PM completion, planned vs. unplanned work, MTBF, MTTR, work order aging, and labor utilization.

Additional

• This position will work onsite 5 days a week.

• This position will travel globally and nationally (20%).

Join our Team

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $84,674.00 - $127,010.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
 
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
                                                                                                                                             
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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