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Responsibilities:

• Plan and prepare maintenance work by reviewing, prioritizing, and defining the scope, labor, materials, safety requirements, and job steps for all incoming work orders in the CMMS.

• Develop and maintain job plans and templates to standardize work execution, improve job quality, and ensure compliance with safety and maintenance standards.

• Manage maintenance backlog health by organizing, classifying, and preparing work for scheduling, ensuring work orders are complete, accurate, and “ready-to-schedule.”

• Support the weekly and long-range maintenance schedule by aligning job requirements with labor availability, parts readiness, and operational downtime windows.
• Identify needed spare parts, check stock availability, and generate purchase requisitions when required.
• Ensure CMMS data accuracy and maintenance program integrity through high-quality job documentation, PM updates, equipment history records, and continuous PM optimization.

• Prepare and distribute periodic maintenance backlog and KPI summaries to key stakeholders, highlighting overdue work orders, high-priority issues, and scheduling constraints.

• Collaborate with Maintenance, Engineering, and the Storeroom to validate spare parts lists, BOM updates, and materials availability.

• Assist with training of technicians, supervisors, and engineers in CMMS use, documentation standards, and planning workflows

• Identify continuous improvement opportunities for PM tasks, job plans, and planning processes.

Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree in Industrial Maintenance, Engineering Technology, Mechanical/Electrical discipline, or equivalent military/technical experience.
• Minimum 3–5 years of hands-on maintenance experience in an industrial, manufacturing, utilities, or comparable environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• General working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and industrial equipment systems sufficient to understand failure modes, plan work, and estimate labor and materials.
• Knowledge of preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance principles.
• Understanding of predictive maintenance data (vibration, thermography, oil analysis) and how PdM findings inform job planning.
• Strong computer literacy, including CMMS navigation, MS Excel (data analysis/visualization, filters, lookups), MS Word, MS Project, and SAP or equivalent purchasing systems.
• High attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy across job plans, work orders, and CMMS asset data
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear, technician-friendly job plans.
• Organizational and planning skills to manage multiple competing priorities, shifting schedules, and high-volume maintenance demands
• Certification(s) in maintenance planning/scheduling, reliability (CMRP, CRL), or PMO/RCM methodologies are preferred but not required.

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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