Maintenance Planning Manager

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Manager Maintenance – Planning

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What we need:

Mohawk is looking for a Maintenance Planning Manager to drive planning, scheduling, and storeroom excellence across the site.  This role provides direction for planners, schedulers, and storeroom operations while ensuring high-quality job planning, accurate materials readiness, and disciplined work management. This role will own maintenance planning governance, oversee weekly and long-range schedules, and lead the preparation and execution of major downtime events.

What you’ll do:

• Provide leadership, direction, and performance management for Maintenance Planners/Schedulers and the Storeroom Supervisor, ensuring clear role ownership, expectations, and accountability.
• Establish standard work, priorities, and planning horizons for planners and schedulers to ensure consistent, high-quality job planning and scheduling discipline.
• Set expectations for storeroom performance, inventory accuracy, and service levels through the Storeroom Supervisor rather than direct task execution.
• Coach and develop team members to improve planning quality, schedule adherence, materials readiness, and data accuracy.
• Own and govern the site maintenance work management process, ensuring work is properly scoped, planned, and ready prior to scheduling and execution.
• Review and approve planning standards, job plan quality expectations, and backlog management strategies established by the planning team.
• Ensure alignment between maintenance priorities, equipment criticality, production needs, and planned downtime opportunities.
• Partner with Maintenance Managers, Engineering, and Operations to ensure maintenance planning supports asset reliability and production objectives.
• Provide oversight and strategic direction for weekly and daily maintenance scheduling developed by planners and schedulers.
• Own accountability for monthly maintenance down days, ensuring scope definition, resource alignment, materials readiness, and execution sequencing are established and adhered to.
• Lead long range planning and coordination for biannual maintenance down weeks, ensuring work is identified, planned, resourced, and staged well in advance.
• Ensure Down Days and Down Weeks are governed by clear scope control, readiness reviews, and execution expectations to minimize risk and reactive work.
• Provide managerial oversight of contractor planning and utilization in support of scheduled down days and extended shutdowns.
• Ensure planners appropriately integrate contractor scope, labor hours, skill requirements, and sequencing into maintenance plans and schedules.
• Partner with procurement, safety, and maintenance leadership to ensure contractors are properly qualified, aligned, and prepared to execute work safely and efficiently.
• Hold planners and supervisors accountable for effective contractor coordination and cost control during planned events.
• Serve as the site owner for maintenance work management governance within the CMMS, with strong emphasis on SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) usage and discipline.
• Champion potential CMMS integration with SAP
• Establish expectations for work order lifecycle management, including planning, releasing, scheduling, confirmation, and close‑out accuracy.
• Review and act on KPIs related to planning effectiveness, schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog health, and materials availability.
• Ensure planners, supervisors, and storeroom leadership are trained and compliant with SAP standards and processes.
• Provide managerial oversight of storeroom operations through the Storeroom Supervisor, ensuring inventory accuracy, transaction discipline, and material availability.
• Ensure kitting and staging processes support scheduled maintenance work and downtime events without direct involvement in daily storeroom activities.
• Align storeroom strategies with maintenance planning requirements, critical spare strategies, and reliability objectives.
• Drive cost savings on non-OEM parts and materials, working with vendors, purchasing, and internal customers.
• Perform additional responsibilities as needed to support evolving business priorities

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred.
• 6-8 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• 1-3 years of management experience.
• PMP Certification Preferred.

What you’re good at:

• Demonstrated experience leading or governing scheduled maintenance down days, outages, or extended shutdowns.
• Strong experience using a CMMS, with preference for SAP Plant Maintenance (PM).
• Working knowledge of storeroom/parts room and MRO inventory management concepts.
• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline or field.
• Focused on and responsible for their team's productivity and collective impact.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and organizational skills.
• Able to multitask, prioritize, delegate, and manage time effectively.
• High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential data.
• Proficient using Microsoft Office Suite products.
• Flexible attitude, adaptable to change, team player, and able to handle multiple projects at once.
• High degree of professionalism, judgment, maturity, and resourcefulness in the absence of formalized guidelines and procedures.

What else?

• This employee will be responsible for direct reports.
• Occasional exposure to hazardous conditions caused by noise, moving mechanical parts, airborne particles, and other conditions associated with a high-traffic production floor.
• Must be able to walk long distances and stand for long periods of time.
• Bending, crouching, and stooping may be required.
• Must be able to work in non-climate-controlled facilities.
• The work environment may be a noisy, high traffic manufacturing production floor.
• May be required to work a flexible schedule to include evening and night shifts, weekends, and holidays.
• The ability to wear personal protective gear correctly most of the day.
• The ability to lift 50 pounds regularly.

Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk’s vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world’s largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don’t Work participant.

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