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This role develops job plans, schedules planned work, improves preventive-maintenance effectiveness, coordinates parts and resources, and supports maintenance leadership with accurate work-order information and performance reporting.\nThe planner works closely with maintenance group leaders, skilled trades, operations, manufacturing/process engineering, safety, quality, purchasing, stores, suppliers, and contractors. The role helps convert equipment needs into executable work that improves safety, uptime, throughput, quality, cost, and environmental performance.\nWhat You’ll Do\nReview maintenance requests, equipment issues, inspection findings, and preventive-maintenance requirements for the paint department.\n\nDevelop complete work packages that define the scope, sequence, labor requirements, skills, tools, materials, permits, safety controls, and estimated duration for planned work.\n\nCreate, update, and monitor work orders, job plans, preventive-maintenance tasks, routes, and equipment records in the computerized maintenance-management system.\n\nPrioritize maintenance work with department leadership based on safety, regulatory requirements, equipment criticality, production impact, quality risk, and available resources.\n\nCoordinate daily and weekly maintenance planning with maintenance group leaders, skilled trades, operations, manufacturing engineering, and other affected departments.\n\nPlan shutdown, weekend, outage, and major repair activities, including work sequencing, contractor coordination, material readiness, and schedule tracking.\n\nConfirm that required parts, tools, equipment, drawings, procedures, permits, and technical support are available before work is scheduled.\n\nPartner with stores and purchasing to identify replacement parts, establish appropriate stocking levels, resolve material shortages, and support point-of-use availability.\n\nReview equipment history, recurring failures, backlog, downtime, preventive-maintenance compliance, and other maintenance data to identify improvement opportunities.\n\nSupport root-cause investigations and develop corrective actions that reduce repeat failures and improve equipment reliability.\n\nCoordinate with suppliers and contractors on estimates, scope, site access, safety requirements, work execution, and closeout documentation.\n\nSupport maintenance work involving paint process equipment, conveyors, robots, pumps, fans, ovens, booths, pretreatment, electrocoat, sealer, material systems, utilities, controls, and environmental equipment.\n\nVerify that completed work orders contain accurate labor, parts, failure information, follow-up actions, and technical documentation.\n\nMaintain current equipment records, bills of material, preventive-maintenance procedures, inspection routes, drawings, manuals, and maintenance standards.\n\nParticipate in maintenance priority meetings, shutdown reviews, equipment buyoffs, reliability reviews, and continuous-improvement activities.\n\nSupport safe work planning, including lockout, energy-control requirements, confined-space or hot-work planning when applicable, pre-task planning, and required permits.\n\nPrepare and communicate maintenance schedules, backlog reports, project updates, risks, and completion status to department leadership.\n\nHelp develop and maintain standardized work for maintenance planning and improve the quality, timeliness, and execution of planned work.\n\nYour Skills & Abilities\nExperience in maintenance, maintenance planning, scheduling, manufacturing engineering, facilities, or industrial operations.\n\nWorking knowledge of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, corrective maintenance, work-order management, and equipment reliability practices.\n\nAbility to read and interpret equipment manuals, maintenance procedures, technical drawings, electrical schematics, and bills of material.\n\nAbility to work effectively with skilled trades, maintenance leadership, production, engineering, suppliers, and contractors.\n\nStrong organization, prioritization, communication, and follow-through skills.\n\nAbility to work effectively with skilled trades, maintenance leadership, production, engineering, suppliers, and contractors.\n\nCommitment to safe work practices, environmental compliance, and continuous improvement.\n\nFlexibility to work any shift, including weekends and overtime as required\n\nWhat Will Give You a Competitive Edge\nAssociate or bachelor’s degree in engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, industrial technology, or a related field is preferred.\n\nExperience in an automotive manufacturing or paint shop environment.\n\nExperience planning maintenance for conveyors, pumps, motors, drives, ovens, booths, robots, process systems, utilities, or environmental equipment.\n\nExperience with Maximo or another computerized maintenance-management system, including work-order reporting, job plans, preventive-maintenance schedules, asset records, and bills of material.\n\nKnowledge of maintenance shutdown planning, contractor management, equipment buyoffs, and production-support activities.\n\nFamiliarity with reliability-centered maintenance, total productive maintenance, failure-mode analysis, root-cause problem solving, and lean manufacturing.\n\nKnowledge of lockout, energy-control requirements, pre-task planning, hazard recognition, and plant safety systems.\n\nAbility to develop clear job plans and estimate labor, materials, tools, equipment, and work duration.\n\nExperience using a computerized maintenance-management system or comparable work-order system.\n\nExperience using Microsoft Office, maintenance reporting tools, equipment history, downtime data, or dashboard applications.\n\nTechnical experience with mechanical, electrical, controls, pipefitting, millwright, or industrial equipment systems.\n\nAbility to manage UAW employees\n\nGM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).\n\nThis role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis.\n\nThe selected candidate will be required to travel About GMOur vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.\nWhy Join Us\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\nBenefits Overview\nFrom day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\nAll employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.\nAccommodations\nGeneral Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. 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