Corporate Maintenance Planning and Excellence Leader

Job Description:

Corporate Maintenance Planning and Excellence Leader

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government, or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
The Corporate Maintenance Planning and Excellence Leader will be responsible for establishing, standardizing, and governing global maintenance cost management, work planning, and scheduling excellence across all manufacturing sites. This role drives cost transparency, planning discipline, and execution efficiency to support improved asset reliability, reduced unplanned downtime, and sustainable cost performance.

Reporting into Global Maintenance Director, this leader serves as the enterprise subject matter expert for maintenance cost strategy, work scope planning, budgeting, and work management and execution effectiveness. The role partners closely with Plant Engineering and Maintenance, Reliability, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain to embed best‑in‑class maintenance planning and controls across the enterprise.

As a(n) Corporate Maintenance Planning and Excellence Leader you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

Defining and Implementing Global Maintenance Cost Strategy & Governance including: Defining and implementing a global maintenance cost management framework, including budgeting, cost structures, metrics and reporting standards.

• Establish enterprise guidelines for maintenance budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range Renewal capital and OPEX planning.
• Own global maintenance cost KPIs for Planning effectiveness, Budgets and spend adherence and contractor cost, planning and execution effectiveness.
• Partner with Capital planning and Finance to ensure alignment between maintenance strategy, budget governance, and financial targets.

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Excellence

• Establish and deploy global standards for maintenance planning and scheduling, including backlog management, job plan quality, Library planning and readiness criteria.
• Define expectations for planner roles, scheduling cadence, frozen week schedules, and work execution discipline.
• Drive consistency in CMMS/EAM planning workflows, data quality, Data clean up and reporting.
• Support initiatives to improve schedule compliance, craft wrench time, and backlog health across all sites.

Program Deployment & Performance Improvement

• Assess current state maintenance planning, scheduling, execution effectiveness and cost control maturity across manufacturing sites.
• Develop and execute a phased global deployment roadmap to close gaps and elevate performance.
• Support and or lead global improvement initiatives focused on:
  • Planned vs. reactive maintenance mix
  • Maintenance productivity and utilization
  • Contractor and internal labor optimization
• Establish review cadences (monthly, quarterly, annual) for cost and planning performance with corporate and site leadership.

Contractor Cost & Productivity Enablement

• Partner with others in Global Maintenance & Contractor Management leadership to improve contractor cost transparency, productivity measurement, and rate governance.
• Define global standards for estimating, job costing, and craft/contractor time tracking.
• Support best‑practice sourcing strategies to reduce total cost of maintenance services.

Tools, Analytics & Digital Enablement

• Define requirements and performance expectations for CMMS/EAM, planning tools, and cost analytics platforms.
• Partner with IT, Digital Manufacturing, and Finance to improve maintenance cost visibility, dashboards, and predictive insights.
• Develop standardized reporting and benchmarking across sites and regions.

Capability Building & Change Leadership

• Develop global competency frameworks for maintenance planners and schedulers.
• Define training curricula, certification pathways, and best‑practice playbooks.
• Coach regional and site leaders through change, reinforcing planning discipline and cost accountability.
• Build and lead a global community of practice for maintenance planning and cost excellence.

Your Skills and Expertise
Demonstrated expertise in:

• • Maintenance cost management and budgeting
  • Planning, scheduling and execution best practices
  • CMMS/EAM systems and work management processes

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Technology (completed and verified prior to start)

• Ten (10) years of experience in maintenance or turnaround cost, planning & scheduling and execution leadership, or capital asset management roles within manufacturing or industrial environments in a private, public, government or military environment.
• Five (5) years of experience applying strong analytical, financial, and performance management skills.
• Five (5) years of experience leading large-scale, multi-site change initiatives.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Experience working in global manufacturing organizations with union and contractor workforces.

Work location:

• Remote

Travel: May include up to 30–40% US travel with some overseas travel

Relocation: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in a country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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