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Maintenance Planner

Gerdau and Careers
Petersburg, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/25/2026

We Have:

  • A strong global presence with steel mills that transform millions of metric tons of raw material to produce steel beams, flat-rolled steel, merchant bar, rebar, spikes, and wire used by the automotive industry, appliance, construction, machinery, and equipment industries.
  • A culture that welcomes diversity, encourages innovation and creates products that serve humanity.
  • An environment that values teamwork, safety, and sustainability.
  • A commitment to continuous improvement and the belief that we can create a better future for our employees and our global community by investing in people, processes, and technology.

We Offer:

  • Competitive compensation with annual STI Bonus
  • Comprehensive Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision Plans – Eligible upon 1st day of hire
  • Health & Dependent Care (Flexible Spending Account)
  • 100% Matching 401K up to 6%
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Life/Accidental Life Insurance
  • Health Advocate Services
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement Program
  • Career Path System and Training
  • An empowering and open culture with the opportunity to grow and create

Your Qualifications:

  • Two-year degree/advanced technical training with at least 3 years’ experience at a Master level discipline OR GED/HS Diploma with 5-7 years of on-the-job heavy industrial experience.
  • Must have master level knowledge of heavy manufacturing or other related maintenance engineering activities.
  • Possess extensive working knowledge of maintenance concepts and techniques with a demonstrated expertise in asset reliability technology and systems as well as experience using CMMS (SAP ERP preferred).
  • Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, have the ability to work independently or in a team environment, perform and prioritize a variety of tasks with minimum supervision, and have a broad knowledge of computer software applications.

Your Purpose:

You will serve in an advisory capacity to support and coordinate the Asset Reliability Maintenance Management for scheduled and project maintenance to improve equipment reliability. This position does not have direct reports but will facilitate down-days and outages by establishing planned work with operations, maintenance, reliability, and engineering. You will work with Equipment Area Sponsors and Supervisors, coordinates the work identification and scheduling for run time, down-days and outages. You will have direct responsibility for assisting Area Sponsors with planning proactive maintenance and project work on all equipment at their assigned location(s) as well as scheduling run time and down day work. You will also be working with reliability technicians, reliability engineers, mill operations, maintenance personnel and suppliers.

Your Work:

You will provide coordination, direction and support for implementing and sustaining Asset Reliability Processes (ARP) to improve safety, equipment reliability, and product quality at optimum efficiency and costs by:

  • Coordinating and managing work order backlog for area of responsibility.
  • Facilitating Down Day and Outage planning meetings.
  • Developing maintenance plans and scheduling approved non-emergency-based work plans.
  • Monitoring and reporting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to support ARP assessment and improvements.
  • Participating in all major failure incident investigations within area of responsibility.
  • Maintaining optimal inventory plans and assisting with inventory management for equipment and critical spare parts using Reliability Centered Maintenance methodologies.
  • Preparing, planning, and providing work packages for maintenance activities during down days and major plant outages.
  • Developing and maintaining optimal inventory plans and assisting with inventory management for equipment and critical spare parts using Reliability Centered Maintenance methodologies.
  • Training personnel on equipment care, modifications, renovations, installations, additions, and replacements of facilities and equipment.
  • Participating in all safety programs to help reduce accidents throughout the plant.
  • Ensuring timely completion of preventative maintenance and predictive work orders within specifications, and compliance with appropriate rules and regulations.
  • Auditing non-emergency work orders for proper data management, as well as developing inspection procedures for major repaired equipment when returned to the plant.
  • Interfacing between maintenance and engineering on all new capital expenditures and assist in the development of equipment specifications to ensure that predictive and preventative maintenance tools can be implemented effectively.
  • Updating CMMS, including SAP, for new equipment and equipment changes, work plans, job plans, preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance.
  • Generating CMMS, including SAP, reports that are utilized in all aspects of managing proactive maintenance.

Application Question(s):

  • Do you have maintenance planning experience in a manufacturing environment?

Education:

  • High school or equivalent (Required)

Work Location: In person

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