Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner – Sterling Engineering

Our client, a high‑volume solar panel manufacturing organization, is seeking a Maintenance Planner to support reliability, uptime, and preventive maintenance effectiveness across their production operations. This role is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities to ensure equipment availability while minimizing unplanned downtime in a technically complex manufacturing environment.

• Develop, plan, and schedule preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities for manufacturing and facilities equipment.
• Create and maintain detailed maintenance job plans, including labor estimates, materials, tools, and safety requirements.
• Coordinate maintenance schedules with Production, Engineering, and Operations to minimize disruptions and support throughput targets.
• Manage work orders within a CMMS, ensuring accuracy, prioritization, and timely closure.
• Support equipment reliability initiatives by analyzing downtime data, maintenance history, and failure trends.
• Ensure spare parts and materials are identified, available, and properly staged for planned work.
• Assist in developing standard maintenance procedures and best practices.
• Support shutdowns, outages, and major maintenance events, including planning and post‑event reviews.
• Track maintenance KPIs such as PM compliance, schedule adherence, MTBF, and MTTR.
• Promote safety and compliance by incorporating EHS requirements into all maintenance planning activities.

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Maintenance, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of maintenance planning or maintenance coordination experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing equipment, automation, and utilities; experience in high‑volume or semiconductor/solar manufacturing is a plus.
• Hands‑on experience with CMMS systems (e.g., Maximo, SAP PM, Fiix, eMaint, or similar).
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, manuals, and equipment documentation.
• Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to coordinate across departments.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; advanced Excel skills preferred.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Management and Manufacturing

Burlington, WA

81 k–88 k USD annually