Maintenance Planner, LFP Cell Manufacturing

What to Expect

The Maintenance Planner plays a critical role in ensuring equipment reliability and uptime by planning, coordinating, and scheduling preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. This role serves as a central point of contact between production, maintenance teams, and support functions to ensure all planned downtime activities are executed safely, efficiently, and with minimal impact to operations.

What You'll Do

• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling of activities
• Create and audit PMs and PdMs to maximize equipment reliability and reduce waste
• Participate in bi-weekly planning meetings to align upcoming work and resolve conflicts
• Ensure all job plans and activities include required safety protocols (LOTO, PPE, Arc Flash, etc.)
• Collaborate with technicians and supervisors to maintain work plan visibility and status updates
• Break down work orders into executable tasks, including estimated labor hours, tools, safety requirements, materials, and sequence of operations
• Partner with reliability engineers and supervisors to analyze downtime and identify failure patterns

What You'll Bring

• 3+ years of experience in maintenance planning or high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Technical familiarity with equipment such as precision motion systems, pneumatic systems, vision systems, servo motors, and PLC-based automation (Allen Bradley preferred)
• Working knowledge of safety practices and standards (LOTO, NFPA70E, 5S, etc.)
• Strong understanding of maintenance best practices: PMs, PdMs, TPM, backlog management, and reliability-centered maintenance
• Proficient with CMMS software, MES, inventory systems, and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)
• Must have command of the English language, both written and verbal

Compensation and Benefits

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.