Maintenance Planner (Engineering)

Maintenance Planner – Electrical or Mechanical

Location: Shuqualak, MS | Full-Time | On-Site

Industry: Engineered Wood Products | Compensation: ~$85-90K Bonus 401(k)

A leading engineered wood manufacturer is hiring two Maintenance Planners to support a brand-new facility in Shuqualak, MS. You’ll be joining during the startup phase—helping build the maintenance planning function from the ground up.

Open Roles:

• Electrical Maintenance Planner (top priority)
• Mechanical Maintenance Planner (active; potential to add a second)
  
  

These roles are key to ensuring safe, efficient, and well-prepared maintenance execution—and a great opportunity for experienced techs or leads ready to transition into planning full-time.

What You’ll Own (not All Required Experience)

• Build and manage job plans, PMs, task lists, and work instructions in the CMMS
• Walk down jobs, gather parts/tools, and coordinate with vendors and the storeroom
• Prepare work packages for downtime windows, outages, and capital installs
• Partner with maintenance, operations, and automation teams to support day-to-day priorities
• Support root cause analysis, preventive maintenance, and reliability improvement
• Electrical Planner: Motors, drives, PLCs, MCCs, instrumentation
• Mechanical Planner: Conveyors, hydraulics, gearboxes, mobile and fixed equipment
  
  

What You Bring (flexible)

• 3-5 years of industrial maintenance experience (lumber, paper, mill, mfg, etc.)
• 1-2 years of planning/scheduling, or strong informal planning experience as a lead tech
• Solid understanding of PM systems, troubleshooting, and maintenance workflows
• CMMS experience (any platform)
• Comfortable coordinating with multiple stakeholders and walking the floor
• Electrical Planner: Industrial electrical or E&I background preferred
• Mechanical Planner: Mechanical maintenance or millwright background preferred
  
  

Compensation & Perks

• Salary: ~$85-90K base depending on experience
• Bonuses: Annual incentive bonus (5-21%) pay-for-performance bonus (7-12%)
• Retirement: 401(k) with strong employer contribution and match (12%)
• Hours: Salaried 40-hour week, with additional flexibility during outages or startup
• Relocation: Sign-on bonus available for qualified candidates
  
  

Why This Role?

• Help shape the maintenance function at a greenfield facility with new equipment
• Join a site with strong investment in people, safety, and culture
• Work with a team that values training, stability, and career development
• Clear path to grow into reliability, supervisory, or capital project roles
• Be the person who helps get it right from day one
  
  

📩 Ready to make an impact where your planning skills matter?

Apply here OR Send your resume to jacob.ayers@manpowerengineering.com and include a few times this week you're free for a short intro call.

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