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Maintenance Planner

NWH
Center, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 10/27/2025 CLOSED ON 12/16/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Planner position at NWH?

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Create weekly maintenance schedules in collaborations with site leadership
  • Lead weekly maintenance meetings
  • Print or email all open work orders for sites
  • Check for any reactive work orders
  • Close all completed work orders and review technician notes.
  • Keep maintenance/site managers up to date on past due work orders
  • Create job tasks in MPulse
  • Create PM’s
  • Review downtime data and create new scheduled maintenance based on maintenance and machine history.  Update downtime data as needed
  • Check with supervisor or Maintenance lead about parts supplies and update MPulse
  • Assist in training maintenance on how and why we do work orders
  • Have a good understanding of the difference between preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance
  • Build out and keep up to date work centers in MPulse, based on section and parts maintained
  • Demonstrate understanding of work centers and part names
  • Understand lockout tagout and maintenance processes to better understand the functioning of work orders
  • Track site maintenance and safety metrics
  • Assist other team members as needed

 

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or equivalent
  • Must possess skills, knowledge, and experience in the field of maintenance.
  • Experience with maintenance management software is a plus

 

Competencies:

  • Must follow all established safety policies. Must have good safety record and a positive, can-do attitude.
  • Be adaptable, work where needed as required
  • Must be able to work overtime, weekends, holidays as required and in all conditions.
  • Capable of completing required documentation
  • Able to work as a team, get along with team members; give and take advice and criticism from other team members
  • Strong computer and communication skills

 

Physical Requirements

  • While performing the duties of this job, the team member will frequently be required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear.
  • The team member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
  • While performing the duties of this Job, the team member is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
  • This job may require the following equipment when in the field eye protection, hearing protection, leather/rubber gloves, safety shoes, sleeve protection, safety vest, and a hard hat.

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