What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Planner, Manufacturing Facilities position at Tesla Motors, Inc.?
What to Expect
What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
Compensation and Benefits
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
The Facilities Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing complete, accurate, and executionready maintenance job plans that support safe, efficient, and reliable operation of manufacturing facilities and critical plant infrastructure. This role defines what work will be done and how, ensuring labor, materials, tools, documentation, and safety requirements are fully planned before work is scheduled and executed. The Facilities Maintenance Planner focuses on facilities maintenance execution and coordinates with manufacturing, operations, engineering, and reliability teams to support uptime and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do
- Develop detailed job plans for preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance supporting manufacturing facilities and plant utilities
- Define scopes of work including job steps, labor estimates, trade skill requirements, sequencing, and production constraints
- Identify, coordinate, and stage required materials, tools, spare parts, and specialty equipment to support timely execution
- Ensure job plans include all required safety and production risk controls, including LOTO, JSA/JHA, PPE, permits, and coordination with manufacturing schedules
- Maintain and improve job plans, task lists, asset hierarchies, and bills of material within FLUX for facilities and infrastructure assets
- Collaborate with manufacturing operations, maintenance trades, engineering, and reliability teams to align planning with uptime and throughput goals
- Review completed work orders and execution feedback to drive planning accuracy, standardization, reduced rework, and increased wrench time
What You'll Bring
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in manufacturing facilities maintenance, industrial maintenance, or maintenance planning roles
- Strong working knowledge of manufacturing facility systems, including electrical distribution, HVAC, plumbing, compressed air, water, and other plant utilities
- Demonstrated proficiency using FLUX or similar maintenance planning and work management systems in a manufacturing environment
- Ability to read and interpret drawings, schematics, P&IDs, manuals, and technical documentation
- Solid understanding of industrial safety and manufacturing compliance requirements (LOTO, OSHA, PPE, permitrequired work)
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fastpaced, productiondriven environment
- Effective communication skills to coordinate across maintenance trades, manufacturing operations, engineering, and leadership
Compensation and Benefits
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
- Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
- Tesla Babies program
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
Expected Compensation
$80,000 - $180,000/annual salary cash and stock awards benefits
Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Salary : $80,000 - $180,000