Senior Maintenance Planner
Redwoodmaterials•6h ago
United StatesOnsiteFull-timeSenior Level5+ yrs exp
Top focus
Demand Planner
- About Redwood Materials
- Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse
- recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.
- The Senior Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, coordinating
- optimizing maintenance execution and plant downtime activities to maximize equipment reliability, plant availability
- workforce efficiency. This role serves as the central coordination point between Maintenance, Operations, Reliability, Engineering
- Spare Parts teams to ensure work is properly scoped, planned, resourced, scheduled
- The role focuses heavily on outage planning, resource coordination, contractor alignment
- improving overall maintenance execution performance through structured planning processes. Focus between outage preparation and execution will be to support weekly maintenance schedules and preventative maintenance activities.
- Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
- Develop detailed job plans for preventive, corrective, predictive, and turnaround maintenance activities
- Build and maintain weekly maintenance schedules in coordination with Operations and Maintenance leadership
- Define labor requirements, tooling, permits, scaffolding, specialty services, and materials required for work execution
- Ensure all work orders contain complete scope, estimated labor hours, procedures, drawings, and parts requirements before scheduling
- Prioritize maintenance backlog based on risk, criticality, production impact, and equipment health
- Downtime / Turnaround Coordination
- Lead planning and execution for plant shutdowns, outages, and major maintenance events
- Develop integrated downtime schedules including:
- Critical path activities
- Resource loading
- Contractor coordination
- Equipment isolation sequencing
- Startup readiness planning
- Facilitate daily outage coordination meetings during shutdown execution
- Track downtime progress, identify schedule risks, and drive recovery plans when deviations occur
- Cross-Functional Coordination
- Act as liaison between Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, EHS, and Contractors
- Coordinate equipment access windows and ensure operational readiness for planned work
- Support Management of Change (MOC) activities related to maintenance or shutdown work
- Work with Reliability Engineering to incorporate RCA findings, PM improvements, and predictive maintenance strategies into future plans
- Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, or related technical field OR equivalent industrial maintenance experience.
- 5+ years of experience in industrial maintenance, planning, and/or scheduling
- Experience planning major outages, shutdowns, or turnarounds in a manufacturing or process plant environment.
- Strong understanding of:
- Mechanical systems
- Rotating and fixed equipment
- Process equipment
- Maintenance workflows
- Lockout/Tagout and permitting systems
- Experience with CMMS systems (SAP, Maximo, JDE, etc.).
- Strong organizational, communication, and coordination skills.
- Preferred
- Experience in chemical, mining, refining, cement, energy, or heavy industrial environments
- Familiarity with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), RCA methodologies, and predictive maintenance programs
- Experience with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project
- Supervisory or lead coordination experience during outages or shutdowns
- The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
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Required skills
Maintenance PlanningSchedulingPreventive MaintenanceResource CoordinationContractor Management