As a preventive maintenance coordinator, your job is to develop and implement a proactive maintenance schedule that balances cost-effectiveness with the need to monitor and maintain functioning equipment. As part of your duties, you identify and catalog equipment, enter information in a maintenance record, and assign work orders. If the maintenance cannot be done in-house, you may be asked to choose a contractor or decide if the company should hire someone on a full-time basis. You can also expect to produce reports on maintenance needs and identify when some or all regular business operations need to be suspended to allow maintenance to occur. You may need to use ladders and other equipment to conduct visual inspections.