Job Description

Job Description: Maintenance Planner

Position Title: Maintenance Planner
Department: Maintenance / Operations
Reports To: Maintenance Manager
Location: Duncanville TX
Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Summary

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing, scheduling, and coordinating preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities to ensure optimal equipment reliability and minimal downtime. This role serves as a key link between operations, maintenance technicians, engineering, and procurement to ensure maintenance work is well-planned, materials are available, and work is executed safely and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Scheduling

• Create detailed job plans, including labor requirements, materials, tools, permits, and step-by-step work instructions.
• Develop and manage preventive and predictive maintenance schedules.
• Prioritize maintenance activities based on operational needs, safety requirements, and asset criticality.
• Maintain and optimize the maintenance backlog.

Work Order Management

• Review incoming work requests and convert them into actionable work orders.
• Ensure work orders contain complete scopes, technical specifications, and required documentation.
• Track work order progress and closeout, ensuring accurate reporting in the CMMS/EAM system.
• Analyze completed work orders for improvements in job planning and execution.

Materials & Procurement

• Identify and request spare parts, tools, and contract services needed for work execution.
• Coordinate with procurement and warehouse teams to ensure timely material availability.
• Help maintain accurate spare-parts inventory and update bill of materials (BOMs).

Equipment Reliability & Continuous Improvement

• Support reliability initiatives by analyzing equipment history, failures, and maintenance trends.
• Recommend improvements to maintenance strategies, PM tasks, and job plans.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and reliability teams to optimize asset performance.

Health, Safety & Compliance

• Ensure all maintenance plans incorporate proper safety procedures, permits, and regulatory requirements.
• Support compliance programs, including audits, inspections, and documentation control.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• High school diploma required, technical diploma or degree in engineering, maintenance, or related field preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in maintenance planning, industrial maintenance, or a related role.
• Experience with CMMS/EAM systems (e.g., SAP, Maximo, Infor, eMaint, Fiix).
• Manufacturing, industrial, or facilities experience preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and facility systems.
• Excellent planning, scheduling, and organizational skills.
• Ability to read technical drawings, manuals, and schematics.
• Strong communication and coordination skills across multiple teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook).
• Analytical mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

Key Attributes

• Detail-oriented and highly organized
• Problem-solver with strong prioritization skills
• Safety-focused
• Customer-service mindset
• Able to work independently and collaboratively

Working Conditions

• Typical work environment includes a mix of office and industrial/plant settings.
• May require occasional walking, climbing, or exposure to noise, heat, or machinery during site visits.

This role will also share responsibilities to assist the EHS manager.

Shift

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Full or Part Time

Full time

Cabinetworks Group (the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we want to have the best available persons in every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company’s policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

Cabinetworks Group is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is an Internet based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA) that allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees in the United States. Please click on the following links for more information.

E-Verify Participation Poster: English & Spanish

E-verify Right to Work Poster: English, Spanish

#IDDVA