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Fervo Energy Company

Maintenance Planner

Houston, TX · On-site

This position reports to the Director, Maintenance & Reliability, and is the single point of ownership for turning an identified maintenance need into a fully planned, resourced, and scheduled work ...

GAF

Maintenance Reliability Engineer II

Gainesville, TX · On-site

$92K - $116K/yr

... specific reliability and maintenance programs. This role independently leads initiatives to ... planning, scheduling, purchase req's, work order completion). * Perform other job duties as ...

Gaf

Maintenance Reliability Engineer II

Gainesville, TX · On-site

$92K - $116K/yr

... specific reliability and maintenance programs. This role independently leads initiatives to ... planning, scheduling, purchase req's, work order completion). * Perform other job duties as ...

Ameritex Machine & Fab, LLC

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Interim Maintenance Planner & Reliability Lead

Conroe, TX · On-site

$85K - $135K/yr

The Interim Maintenance Planner & Reliability Lead owns maintenance readiness, work order flow, preventative maintenance discipline, spare parts and tooling availability, and maintenance decision ...

Electrolit Manufacturing

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Reliability Engineer

Waco, TX · On-site

$90K - $100K/yr

This role leads reliability initiatives including asset management, predictive maintenance, failure analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance programs while overseeing the planning and execution ...

Electrolit Manufacturing USA Inc

Reliability Engineer

Waco, TX · On-site

$91K - $114K/yr

This role leads reliability initiatives including asset management, predictive maintenance, failure analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance programs while overseeing the planning and execution ...

Shell

Non-Routine/Maintenance Planner

Deer Park, TX · On-site

$103K - $155K/yr

Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds Worker Type: Regular Posting Start Date: September 1, 2026 ... Review planning queues daily and manage planning backlog through efficient planning practices

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What does a maintenance reliability planner do?

A Maintenance Reliability Planner is responsible for developing and organizing maintenance plans to improve the reliability and efficiency of equipment and machinery. They analyze equipment performance data, schedule preventive maintenance, and coordinate with maintenance teams to minimize downtime and unplanned outages. Their role ensures that maintenance activities are carried out effectively, ultimately reducing costs and improving productivity for the organization.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a maintenance reliability planner, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Maintenance Reliability Planner, you need a solid background in mechanical or electrical maintenance, experience in reliability-centered maintenance, and typically an associate's or bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field. Familiarity with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), predictive maintenance tools, and certifications such as CMRP (Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional) are commonly required. Excellent analytical thinking, organization, and communication skills help you prioritize tasks, coordinate teams, and optimize maintenance schedules. These skills and qualifications are crucial to minimizing equipment downtime, improving plant reliability, and maximizing operational efficiency.

How does a maintenance reliability planner typically collaborate with other departments to improve equipment uptime?

A Maintenance Reliability Planner works closely with operations, engineering, and maintenance teams to coordinate scheduled maintenance and ensure minimal disruption to production. They review equipment histories, analyze failure patterns, and communicate with operators to prioritize work orders and preventive tasks. By fostering cross-functional communication, they help identify root causes of equipment issues and implement solutions that enhance reliability, safety, and efficiency across the facility.

What is the difference between Maintenance Reliability Planner vs Maintenance Technician?

AspectMaintenance Reliability PlannerMaintenance Technician
CredentialsCertifications in reliability, planning, or maintenance management; technical knowledgeTechnical certifications, trade licenses, hands-on skills
Work EnvironmentOffice-based planning, scheduling, and coordinationFieldwork, equipment repair, troubleshooting
Employer & IndustryManufacturing, energy, facilities managementIndustrial plants, facilities, manufacturing

The Maintenance Reliability Planner focuses on developing maintenance strategies, scheduling, and ensuring equipment reliability through planning. In contrast, the Maintenance Technician performs hands-on repairs and maintenance tasks. Both roles are essential in maintaining equipment uptime but differ in their primary responsibilities and work environment.

Do you need a degree to be a maintenance reliability planner?

A maintenance reliability planner typically does not require a formal degree but benefits from technical training, certifications, and experience in maintenance, reliability engineering, or related fields. Strong knowledge of maintenance management systems, troubleshooting, and planning skills are essential for the role.

How much do maintenance reliability planners make in the US?

Maintenance reliability planners in the US typically earn between $70,000 and $100,000 annually, depending on experience, industry, and location. Salaries can increase with certifications such as RCM or CBM and proficiency in maintenance management software like SAP or Maximo.

Is a maintenance reliability planner a good job?

A maintenance reliability planner is a valuable role focused on optimizing maintenance strategies to improve equipment uptime and reduce costs. It typically requires skills in data analysis, maintenance management systems, and understanding of reliability principles. The job offers opportunities for career advancement in industrial, manufacturing, or energy sectors.

Maintenance Planner

Houston, TX • On-site

Fervo Energy Company
Clean Energy Semiconductors Manufacturing • 11 - 50 employees
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Full-time

Posted 15 days ago

Job description

Job Type
Full-time
Description
The Maintenance Planner owns work order planning and scheduling for Fervo's fleet of geothermal generating facilities. This position reports to the Director, Maintenance & Reliability, and is the single point of ownership for turning an identified maintenance need into a fully planned, resourced, and scheduled work order. That need can originate as PM or CbM work generated by the maintenance strategy, or as a Work Request raised by Operations, Maintenance, Commissioning, or Reliability Technicians in the field.
At Fervo, we follow the Palmer methodology for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling; with clear distinctions between the Planning function and the Maintenance Execution function. Therefore, this role will not be involved in hands on maintenance work, but is expected to spend meaningful time in the field with Operations and Maintenance teams . This field time allows the Planner to understand the facilities, identify opportunities, and use that field experience to create and improve maintenance plans.
This position is responsible for both Planning and Scheduling. Planning determines what a job requires: parts, labor hours, discipline, procedure, permits, and outage or access windows, before it is scheduled. Scheduling determines when the job runs and which crew executes it, sequenced against competing priorities across every active site. The expected time allocations for these functions is approximately 80/20, planning to scheduling.
Requirements
Responsibilities
Work Order Planning
  • Convert preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance Work Requests into fully planned work orders in the CMMS system. Each plan includes scope of work, procedure reference, required parts, estimated labor hours, and discipline requirements.
  • Process Work Requests from the fleet: PM/CbM work generated by the maintenance strategy, and Work Requests raised by Operations, Maintenance, Commissioning, Engineering, and Reliability. Work procedures will be built according to priority, asset criticality, and repeatability of the activity.
  • Work procedures shall be built by equipment type, not by site, so job plans are reusable between power generating facilities on similar equipment.
  • Provide labor and time estimates on every plan, even when imperfect. Iterate upon each plan through feedback received from the technicians to improve plans over time.
  • Verify job plans before release: parts on hand or on order, permits identified, and any outage or equipment-access window confirmed with Operations.
  • Maintain a 4 to 6 week rolling backlog of planned, ready-to-schedule work across all sites, sorted by priority and readiness. A plan is not complete until it is schedulable without further work by planning.
  • Serve as the fleet's plant historian: maintain the searchable record of work performed, parts consumed, and findings identified on each asset, so future job plans are built from actual maintenance history rather than reconstructed from memory.

Scheduling
  • Build and maintain the weekly maintenance schedule for the fleet: a prioritized list of work derived from the Ready Backlog (Planning) broken down by labor types, and covering 100% of available work hours.
  • Coordinate week ahead crew hours and schedule commitments directly with site maintenance supervisors; the supervisor owns execution and day-of crew direction, the Planner creates the list of work derived from the craft availability and the contents of the ready backlog.
  • Bundle jobs on common equipment or in the same area/facility when scheduling, to reduce mobilization and production overhead rather than dispatching a crew separately for each work order.
  • Support Maintenance when unplanned/unscheduled opportunities arise to execute work from the Planned backlog. These tasks will break the current schedule but may alsi provide operational or maintenance opportunities that make them more worthwhile.
  • Recognize that Site Execution has final authority to break the published schedule for any reason deemed necessary. When that happens, rework the affected plan and future schedule rather than treating the break as a compliance failure.

CMMS Ownership
  • Own the CMMS as the system of record for planning and scheduling data across the fleet including work order quality, backlog accuracy, and schedule compliance reporting.
  • Track and report the fleet's critical M&R KPIs as derived from The CMMS: schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog size in weeks, and the ratio of planned to reactive to emergency work. These are the numbers the Director, Maintenance & Reliability uses to judge whether the M&R program is actually working.
  • Maintain the asset hierarchy, PM templates, and job plan library in The CMMS so that recurring work does not need to be re-planned from scratch at each site.
  • Help develop training plans for new employees on appropriate work streams and the use of The CMMS.

Parts and Materials Coordination
  • Identify and reserve parts and materials required for planned work, coordinating with Supply Chain on lead times for anything not on hand.
  • Flag parts availability as a schedule risk before a job is committed to the schedule, not after a crew is already mobilized.
  • Update recurring work procedures with learnings from past work, including specific tools, consumables, and parts required to execute work tasks more effectively.

Coordination and Escalation
  • Coordinate with engineering, maintenance and operations on newly generated PM/CbM work and on feedback from completed jobs that should inform future job plans.
  • Coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Commissioning, and Reliability Technicians as the standing notification sources feeding the planning backlog, and with Operations specifically on equipment access, outage windows, and any schedule changes that affect plant availability.
  • Escalate to the Director, Maintenance & Reliability any resource conflict, parts shortfall, or schedule risk that cannot be resolved at the Planner level.

Requirements
Required
  • 5 or more years of maintenance planning and scheduling experience in an industrial, power generation, or process plant environment, directly supporting a work force of between 10 and 20 technicians.
  • Direct working experience with a CMMS (MaintainX, Maximo, SAP, or comparable) for work order planning, PM template management, backlog reporting and KPI management.
  • Strong knowledge of the preventive and predictive maintenance concepts required to plan work generated by a reliability program.
  • Experience scheduling multi-discipline maintenance work across more than one site or unit concurrently.
  • Experience coordinating parts and materials lead times with a supply chain or procurement function.
  • Strong written communication; job plans, schedules, and backlog reporting must be usable by people who were not in the room when the plan was made.

Preferred
  • Experience in geothermal or other utility-scale power generation maintenance.
  • Professional background as a plant maintenance technician, engineer, or operator, with the relevant experience necessary to estimate labor hours for a variety of work tasks with reasonable accuracy.
  • Familiarity with RCM or FMEA-based maintenance strategy development, even if not the role setting that strategy.
  • Professional credentials such as CMRP, CMRT, or similar certifications.

Location
Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX with growing offices in Oakland, CA, Golden, CO, Salt Lake City, UT, and Reno, NV. This position supports the fleet from launch, with travel to active sites, currently Cape Station in Milford, UT, as Planning and Scheduling needs require. Travel required is dependent upon relevant experience and will settle at ~15-20%.

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