Senior Operations Maintenance Planner

The Senior Operations Maintenance Planner has endtoend accountability for maintenance planning schedule integrity and operational readiness for assigned sites or campuses. The role balances preventive maintenance requirements vendor capacity site risk posture and operational constraints to ensure maintenance and drill activities are sequenced and executed safely consistently and without undue risk to uptime. The Planner actively challenges inputs adjusts timing and escalates risk based on realtime site conditionsenforcing planning discipline standardization and riskbased prioritization across internal teams and thirdparty vendors to identify and support stable predictable operations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Maintenance Planning & Execution

Ownership of site or multibuilding maintenance calendars including sequencing and prioritization.

Authority to approve defer or resequence preventive maintenance based on risk readiness or site conditions.

Ownership of all maintenance demands across buildings and systems.

Accountability for ensuring maintenance execution aligns with uptime protection strategies not just compliance.

Ownership of maintenance backlog health aging and corrective prioritization.

• Oversight of vendor work schedule and ensuring acceptable timeline to proceed.
• Enforce planning standards documentation quality and readiness requirements.
• Holding vendors accountable to schedule adherence SLA performance and scope clarity.
• Identifying vendordriven risks and escalating or mitigating them proactively.

Spare Parts Governance

• Identify critically based inventory on system risk and long lead supply chain demand.
• Ensuring inventory availability is aligned with planned maintenance and known vulnerabilities.
• Exercising judgment to escalate gaps that create unacceptable execution risk and implement solutions.
• Coordinating replenishment priorities when constraints exist.
  

Site Drill Planning

• Establishing annual drill calendars aligned to sitespecific risk profiles.
• Determining drill sequencing scope and coordination across buildings.
• Ensuring drills are planned to meaningfully test readiness not simply satisfy requirements and executed.
• Ownership of reporting drill completion and adherence.
• Identifying corrective actions and ensuring closure through disciplined followup.
• Providing leadership with a clear defensible view of site readiness posture.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree in Business Engineering or similar discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Three or more years of professional experience in data center mission critical environment or other maintenance role.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Project management experience and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications.
• Prior experience working in mission critical data center environments.
• Experience with the following software tools: ServiceNow Smartsheet or other CMMS platforms.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exhibits excellent interpersonal skills with all levels of the organization.
• Strong organization multi-tasking and prioritization teamwork skills.
• Strong coordination skills between multiple stakeholders third-party contractors consultants and clients.

TOTAL REWARDS

• This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes medical dental vision life and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending and HSA accounts; paid holidays; paid time off; paid volunteer days; employee assistance program; tuition assistance; parental leave; military leave assistance; QTS scholarship for dependents; wellness program and other company benefi role is bonus eligible and may be eligible for equity.

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