Maintenance Planner

Summary: The Maintenance Planner at New-Indy, Oxnard is responsible for the safe and efficient planning of all maintenance work activities in their areas.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Embed safety into every job plan, identifying hazards and required permits (LOTO, confined space, hot work) and documenting safety requirements.
• Review approved work orders for completeness, return incomplete requests, and maintain a clean prioritized planning backlog.
• Perform field walk-downs to define scope, labor, materials, tools, access requirements, and operational constraints.
• Develop detailed job plans including scope, job steps, labor estimates, crafts, parts, tools, support equipment, drawings, manuals, and photos.
• Prepare complete job packages and ensure all work reaches Ready-to-Work status before scheduling.
• Provide labor estimates and craft requirements to support realistic scheduling.
• Identify stock and non-stock material requirements, create purchase requisitions, improve Bills of Material (BOMs), and partner with the storeroom to improve inventory accuracy.
• Maintain a 2–3 week planning horizon, lead weekly planning meetings, and participate in scheduling meetings.
• Collect execution feedback and continuously improve job plans, PMs, estimates, and BOMs to reduce rework and increase wrench time.
• Support reliability initiatives, RCAs, engineering documentation, vendors/OEMs, shutdown planning, and critical maintenance events.
• Maintain high-quality CMMS (Maximo) data and ensure work orders are properly updated and closed.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job is not a supervisory position.