Maintenance Planning Intern
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026. Koch Industries scores A on the Alion truth index.
Your Job
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.
Our Team
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.
What You Will Do
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.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- 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
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience with a CMMS, work instructions, maintenance, or technical writing
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
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.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).