Maintenance Planner

• Build and maintain the weekly maintenance schedule for the fleet: a prioritized list of work derived from the Ready Backlog (Planning) broken down by labor types, and covering 100% of available work hours.
• Coordinate week ahead crew hours and schedule commitments directly with site maintenance supervisors; the supervisor owns execution and day-of crew direction, the Planner creates the list of work derived from the craft availability and the contents of the ready backlog.
• Bundle jobs on common equipment or in the same area/facility when scheduling, to reduce mobilization and production overhead rather than dispatching a crew separately for each work order.
• Support Maintenance when unplanned/unscheduled opportunities arise to execute work from the Planned backlog. These tasks will break the current schedule but may alsi provide operational or maintenance opportunities that make them more worthwhile.
• Recognize that Site Execution has final authority to break the published schedule for any reason deemed necessary. When that happens, rework the affected plan and future schedule rather than treating the break as a compliance failure.

• Own the CMMS as the system of record for planning and scheduling data across the fleet including work order quality, backlog accuracy, and schedule compliance reporting.
• Track and report the fleet's critical M&R KPIs as derived from The CMMS: schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog size in weeks, and the ratio of planned to reactive to emergency work. These are the numbers the Director, Maintenance & Reliability uses to judge whether the M&R program is actually working.
• Maintain the asset hierarchy, PM templates, and job plan library in The CMMS so that recurring work does not need to be re-planned from scratch at each site.
• Help develop training plans for new employees on appropriate work streams and the use of The CMMS.

• Identify and reserve parts and materials required for planned work, coordinating with Supply Chain on lead times for anything not on hand.
• Flag parts availability as a schedule risk before a job is committed to the schedule, not after a crew is already mobilized.
• Update recurring work procedures with learnings from past work, including specific tools, consumables, and parts required to execute work tasks more effectively.

Coordination and Escalation

• Coordinate with engineering, maintenance and operations on newly generated PM/CbM work and on feedback from completed jobs that should inform future job plans.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Commissioning, and Reliability Technicians as the standing notification sources feeding the planning backlog, and with Operations specifically on equipment access, outage windows, and any schedule changes that affect plant availability.
• Escalate to the Director, Maintenance & Reliability any resource conflict, parts shortfall, or schedule risk that cannot be resolved at the Planner level.

• 5 or more years of maintenance planning and scheduling experience in an industrial, power generation, or process plant environment, directly supporting a work force of between 10 and 20 technicians.
• Direct working experience with a CMMS (MaintainX, Maximo, SAP, or comparable) for work order planning, PM template management, backlog reporting and KPI management.
• Strong knowledge of the preventive and predictive maintenance concepts required to plan work generated by a reliability program.
• Experience scheduling multi-discipline maintenance work across more than one site or unit concurrently.
• Experience coordinating parts and materials lead times with a supply chain or procurement function.
• Strong written communication; job plans, schedules, and backlog reporting must be usable by people who were not in the room when the plan was made.

• Experience in geothermal or other utility-scale power generation maintenance.
• Professional background as a plant maintenance technician, engineer, or operator, with the relevant experience necessary to estimate labor hours for a variety of work tasks with reasonable accuracy.
• Familiarity with RCM or FMEA-based maintenance strategy development, even if not the role setting that strategy.
• Professional credentials such as CMRP, CMRT, or similar certifications.

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX with growing offices in Oakland, CA, Golden, CO, Salt Lake City, UT, and Reno, NV.

This position supports the fleet from launch, with travel to active sites, currently Cape Station in Milford, UT, as Planning and Scheduling needs require.

Travel required is dependent upon relevant experience and will settle at ~15-20%.