Maintenance Planner

Your Job

The Guardian Glass facility in Carleton, MI is looking for a Maintenance Planner! In this role you will help increase equipment uptime, reduce unplanned downtime, and strengthen coordination between Maintenance and Production. Through effective planning, parts readiness, and collaboration, you'll ensure maintenance work is executed safely, efficiently, and with minimal disruption to operations.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or at any time in the future. This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

What You Will Do

• Review and approve production maintenance requests and plan work that improves safety, uptime, and operational reliability
• Plan, order parts, and prepare work orders to enable safe, efficient, and well coordinated execution by maintenance technicians
• Foster open communication among technicians, operations, and supervisors to support shared priorities and execution clarity
• Utilize and maintain the CMMS to improve data accuracy and work management reliability
• Develop Job Safety Analyses (JSAs) for non standard work and ensure safe work practices are followed
• Create and update preventive maintenance procedures to support reliable long term asset health
• Apply sound judgment to balance urgent break in work with scheduled activities while providing weekly forecasts for scheduling
• Collaborate with Area Leaders to prioritize upcoming work based on operational needs and maintenance readiness
• Partner with maintenance and reliability teams to optimize manpower planning and resource coordination

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience planning skilled trades maintenance activities
• Experience creating and implementing preventive and predictive maintenance strategies
• Knowledge of electrical and mechanical drive systems
• Experience with a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), such as EAM / Infor

What Will Put You Ahead

* Familiarity with glass manufacturing or other continuous process manufacturing environments

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Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

Guardian Glass is a leading global manufacturer of high-performance glass for residential, commercial, transportation, and architectural applications. Guardian Glass produces float, coated, and fabricated glass products at its manufacturing locations around the world. Guardian's vision is to be a preferred partner to our customers, suppliers, employees, and communities based on a foundation of mutual benefit.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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