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What to Expect
The Role: Maintenance Planner
As a Tesla Maintenance Planner, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the
operational availability of a wide array of manufacturing equipment. You will
apply your technical skills to support the installation, maintenance, and
repair of mechanical and electrical systems, factory automation, and robotics.
You will work with the highest caliber process and equipment engineering teams
to improve equipment reliability and minimize or eliminate downtime.
What You'll Do
The primary functions of a Maintenance Planner are:
Lead the job or work planning process (e.g. monthly, quarterly, annually,
weekly). Identify labor, materials, tools and safety requirements for
maintenance work orders.
Create job plan packages that include written and other info providing
guidelines for the completing the job safely, efficiently and with high
quality.
Kit materials for jobs requiring materials from Spares (or other)
Communicate job plan to the Sustaining Supervisors and/or Technicians
prior to start of the work
Communicate and collaborate with Operations Planner(s) to optimize
scheduling and ensure critical equipment needs (PMs, Corrective Work,
Safety Updates, etc…) are accounted for in the build planning process.
Manage Work Orders
Spares management
Liaison between Maintenance, Production Ops and Engineering
As illustrated in the bullet points above, there are a great deal of
responsibilities, requiring significant time and knowledge to be handled
appropriately. The right candidate provides these additional benefits,
relative to cross-functional teams as shown below:
Operations
Reduce cost of maintenance while improving service
Minimize downtime and interruptions to ops (UPDT)
Render better service to ops by performing most important jobs first
Apply technical and maintenance experience to analysis of each job
Provide orderly procedures for processing work to prevent work orders from
getting lost
Maintains accurate backlog status
Reports completion promptly
Provide expert maintenance advice to ops through the maintenance planner
Require that ops personnel anticipate their repair work before jobs become
emergencies
Maintenance
Permit advanced determination of labor resources needed and time required
to complete each job, which aids the maintenance supervisor in measuring
the performance of his/her personnel.
Allow elimination of delays due to waiting for information, materials,
equipment, other skills, tool, etc.
Provide an overall plan for the supervisor on which to base his/her pre-
thinking and pre-planning for day-to-day work and future work
Provide the cooperation necessary in connection with each job to do work
as prescribed by operations
Provide a central source of information concerning maintenance work,
equipment, and equipment repair
Allow the supervisor to devote closer attention to supervision of work in
the field or shop
Provide special tool and equipment requirements
Reduce clerical work of the supervisor
Permit advance determination of the number of labor resources needed in a
given area or location
Reduce the number of job interruptions once work is started
Establish job goals for the work force
Predetermine and arrange for required shop work
Apply specialized ability to the planning and scheduling of shutdowns
Management
Reduce total cost of maintenance while improving conditions of equipment
Permit accurate forecasting of labor and material needs
Permit immediate recognition of labor shortages and excesses
Enable management to level out peak workloads
Provide factual data required for evaluation of performance and corrective
action as needed
Provide close and constant liaison between operations, maintenance and
engineering
Provide a full day of scheduled work for each technician and thus increase
productivity through the elimination of delays
Permit more accurate collection and analysis of cost and assure an
economic level of maintenance with less interruption of production
Highlight for analysis requests for work of questionable justification
Provide for maximum delegation of authority to permit decisions to be made
by those who have firsthand knowledge of the problem
What You'll Bring
Candidate must demonstrate technical proficiency in one or more of the
following:
Experience with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)
Skilled with common workplace software (MS Word, Excel. PowerPoint etc.)
Able to read and interpret basic mechanical drawings and electrical
schematics
Robust mechanical experience with a background in automotive / vehicle
systems or similar
Proven leadership ability and strong communication and organizational
skills
Experience with Powered Industrial Trucks or automated conveyance systems
Experience in warehouse equipment systems – Dock doors, dock leveling,
pallet racking repair
Experience and/or certifications operating industrial equipment
(forklifts, scissor lifts, etc)
Background in secure rigging, hoisting, and industrial lifting
Skills in electronic, hydraulic, and pneumatic troubleshooting and repair
Skills in GD&T, drafting, machining, rapid fabrication
Proven compliance in all aspects of safety (LOTO, Arc Flash, fall
restraint, etc)
Ability to perform thorough safety inspections on all necessary equipment
Skills with a variety of hand and powered tools
Ability to manage workload while contributing to a positive, team-oriented
work environment
Preferred Skills:
AS/BS Degree in Industrial/Mechanical/Electrical Technology is preferred.
3+ years of experience maintaining industrial equipment and automation, or
technical military experience in lieu of degree
Advanced machining and fabrication skills – welding, bending, etc.
Advanced electrical background working on high voltage systems
Willing to perform shift and overtime as required
Allen Bradley and/or Siemens PLC experience is a plus.
Fanuc and/or Kuka robot experience a plus
