Maintenance planner
Description
Maintenance planners schedule and coordinate maintenance work to keep equipment and facilities running efficiently. The work involves planning maintenance schedules, coordinating resources and parts, prioritising work, analysing maintenance data, and optimising the planning that keeps equipment maintained and downtime minimised.
They work in industrial, facilities, and manufacturing settings. The role suits organised, analytical, practical people who understand maintenance and can plan and coordinate it well, manage schedules, parts, and priorities, work the data to improve reliability, and combine planning discipline with the practical knowledge to keep maintenance efficient and equipment running.
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Career path
Labor statistics estimates from 2023–2033