Maintenance Planning Intern

Guardian Glass (a Koch Company) is seeking a Maintenance Planning Intern to join our Carleton, Michigan team for Summer 2027. This role will support the maintenance department by developing clear, accurate job plans and helping implement them in our computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

At Guardian, we make high-performance, energy efficient glass for homes and buildings. Perhaps most of all, we make the ideas, formulas and processes that make these products possible. When you are looking at a city’s skyline or the grilles on the latest cars and trucks, chances are you’re seeing our Guardian Industries products.

Koch Industries has been consistently selected as one of the top 100 Internship Programs in the U.S by WayUp. The internship opportunity will be a 12-week program running from late May to mid-August 2027.

The Carleton maintenance team supports safe, reliable operation of plant equipment. The intern will work directly with maintenance technicians, planners, supervisors, and operations personnel to capture equipment knowledge and convert it into practical, repeatable job plans.

As an intern, you will be challenged, have your voice heard, and gain practical experience while contributing meaningful work to the team.

This internship provides hands-on experience with maintenance planning, equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, documentation, and CMMS data quality in a manufacturing environment, with a strong focus on safety and continuous improvement.

The Maintenance Planning Intern will:

• Gather information from technicians, equipment manuals, drawings, and field observations to develop detailed maintenance job plans.

• Write clear job steps that include safety requirements, tools, parts, labor skills, estimated hours, and equipment conditions.

• Enter and maintain job plans, task lists, preventive maintenance procedures, and related equipment information in the CMMS.

• Review existing work orders and job plans for accuracy, consistency, and completeness.

• Help standardize job-plan formats, naming conventions, and documentation practices across the maintenance department.

• Validate job plans in the field with maintenance personnel and revise them based on feedback and actual work performed.

• Support CMMS data cleanup, including asset records, bills of materials, spare-parts information, and preventive maintenance frequencies.

• Assist with measuring job-plan effectiveness through schedule compliance, work-order feedback, estimated-versus-actual hours, and repeat maintenance issues.

• Participate in continuous-improvement projects that improve maintenance efficiency, equipment reliability, and safe work execution.

The intern will work alongside maintenance employees to solve real problems and create documentation that improves safety, consistency, planning, and equipment reliability.

In addition to contributing to the maintenance team, the intern will learn about our Principle-Based Management culture, build professional connections, and participate in broader internship-program activities.

These are just a few key aspects of our internship program.

• Enrolled in a degree, 2-year technical program, certificate program, or other training related to engineering, engineering technology, industrial maintenance, manufacturing, reliability, information systems, or a similar field.
• Experience communicating technical information clearly in written and verbal formats.
• Experience organizing and documenting technical information, procedures, or work activities.
• Experience collaborating with others in hands-on environments
• Experience using standard computer applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.