Maintenance Planner

Number of employees

2000

McCarran, NV

Posted on: 2026-07-28

Category: materials

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Redwood Materials is an American clean energy company headquartered in Sparks, Nevada, focused on securing domestic supplies of critical battery materials and providing large-scale energy storage solutions. The company recycles end-of-life batteries to recover lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper, creating one of the largest domestic sources of these critical minerals in the United States. Its operations support the broader transition away from reliance on foreign supply chains for materials essential to electric vehicles and energy storage systems. Through its Redwood Energy division, the company designs, integrates, and deploys large-scale energy storage systems for data centers and the national grid, utilizing both new and repurposed batteries to deliver cost-effective solutions. Redwood Materials partners with major automotive, technology, and energy companies including Volkswagen Group of America, Panasonic, GM Ultium Cells, Toyota, BMW, Amazon, Volvo, and Southern Company, reflecting its central role in the emerging domestic battery supply chain. Founded by former Tesla Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel, Redwood Materials was established with the mission of building a circular economy for batteries, reducing waste, lowering the carbon footprint of energy storage, and strengthening American energy independence. The company holds ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 certifications, underscoring its commitment to occupational health, safety, and environmental management standards.

About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for the short-term planning and coordination of maintenance activities to support safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations. This role serves as the primary interface between Operations, Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, and the Spares Team to ensure work is properly planned, prioritized, resourced, and executed. 

The Maintenance Planner focuses on daily and weekly maintenance activities, preventive maintenance execution, work order planning, and coordination of plant resources. The role is responsible for ensuring technicians have the information, materials, permits, tools, and labor required to successfully complete scheduled work. 


Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

  • Develop and maintain daily and weekly maintenance schedules based on plant priorities, resource availability, and operational needs
  • Review, plan, and coordinate maintenance work orders, ensuring labor, materials, tools, permits, and safety requirements are identified prior to execution
  • Manage the preventive maintenance program, including PM scheduling, completion tracking, and continuous improvement of job plans
  • Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, and Storeroom teams to ensure work is prioritized and executed efficiently with minimal impact to production
  • Maintain work order backlog while monitoring schedule compliance, PM completion, and other maintenance KPIs to drive improved performance and reliability
  • Support contractor coordination and implementation of corrective actions resulting from reliability and root cause investigations

Required 

  • 3+ years of industrial maintenance, maintenance planning, reliability, operations, or related experience
  • Experience working within a CMMS (Limble, SAP, Maximo, Fiix, Infor, etc.)
  • Strong organizational and communication skills
  • Ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
  • Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation maintenance practices

Preferred 

  • Experience in chemical processing, manufacturing, mining, energy, or heavy industrial operations
  • Maintenance Planning & Scheduling certification or equivalent training
  • Familiarity with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) principles
  • Experience coordinating contractors and plant resources

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions

  • Frequent work in indoor office, warehouse, and operational environments.
  • Occasional work outdoors in varying weather conditions.
  • Occasional exposure to noise, dust, fumes, and other conditions commonly found in industrial and manufacturing environments.
  • Occasional work at heights and around operating machinery and equipment.
  • Occasional driving may be required to support business operations, vendor visits, training, or travel between facilities.
  • Ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, and perform routine physical movements as required to support daily responsibilities.
  • Ability to use a computer and standard office equipment, including repetitive hand motions and keyboarding.
  • Must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE), including safety glasses, hearing protection, steel-toed footwear, and other safety equipment as required.
  • Ability to safely navigate active production, warehouse, construction, and operational environments while adhering to all safety policies and procedures.

 

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

 

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