Maintenance planner with 14 years in plant maintenance, the last 5 planning and scheduling work for a 450-employee chemical plant. Builds job plans, kits parts and runs weekly schedules in SAP PM, and raised planned work from 48% to 81% of total maintenance hours while reducing overtime 22%.
Experience
Maintenance Planner / Scheduler, Coastal Bend Chemicals (Corpus Christi, TX)
Mar 2021 – Present
Plan and schedule 900+ work orders a month for 38 craft workers across mechanical, electrical and instrument teams
Raised planned and scheduled work from 48% to 81% of total hours, cutting craft overtime 22%
Built 260 standard job plans with parts, permits and labor estimates in SAP PM
Coordinated a $3.1M, 21-day turnaround of 1,400 jobs that finished on schedule with no recordables
Mechanical Technician, Coastal Bend Chemicals (Corpus Christi, TX)
Jan 2016 – Feb 2021
Repaired centrifugal pumps, compressors and valves in a PSM-covered process unit
Served on the reliability team that cut repeat pump failures 30% with seal upgrades
Assisted with pump alignment, rigging and equipment setting on refinery projects
Education
AAS, Process Technology, Del Mar College (Aug 2012 – May 2015)
Skills
Certifications: SMRP Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), OSHA 30 General Industry, TWIC
Planning: job plans, work order backlog management, weekly scheduling, kitting, turnaround planning
Systems: SAP PM, Primavera P6, Excel, Power BI
How to write a Maintenance Planner resume
A strong Maintenance Planner resume shows the licences you hold, the equipment and systems you work on, and how your work improved safety, uptime, quality or output. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
Sections, in order
Summary
Certifications
Experience
Skills
Education
Length: One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Summary: Write two or three lines: your role, your strongest skills, and one result that proves them.
Skills to feature
Blueprint and schematic reading
Licences and trade certifications
Safety compliance (OSHA, NFPA 70E, LOTO)
Troubleshooting and diagnostics
Preventive maintenance
PLCs and controls
Precision measurement and GD&T
Welding and fabrication
CMMS (Maximo, Fiix, UpKeep)
Lean manufacturing and 5S
Example bullet points
Rebuilt the PM schedule for 14 injection molders in Fiix, cutting unplanned downtime from 9% to 4% in six months
Passed 3G and 4G AWS D1.1 bend tests and held a weld reject rate under 1% on structural steel
Wired 120 kVA of new service and panels to NEC 2023 with zero failed inspections across 30 commercial jobs
Tips from recruiters
Put licences and certifications near the top with the issuing body, state and number of hours or expiry date where relevant.
Name the machines, controls and processes you know (Haas, Fanuc, Allen-Bradley, GTAW) because hiring managers and ATS filters search for them.
Quantify safety and quality as well as output: incident-free hours, scrap, rework and inspection pass rates all count.
Recommended templates
Classic (ATS-friendly): Jake's-style LaTeX classic: small caps and hairline rules
Compact (ATS-friendly): Dense single column that fits long histories
Modern (ATS-friendly): Clean single column with accent headings and rules
Maintenance Planner resume FAQ
What should a Maintenance Planner resume include?
A Maintenance Planner resume should show the licences you hold, the equipment and systems you work on, and how your work improved safety, uptime, quality or output. Use these sections in this order: Summary, Certifications, Experience, Skills and Education. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
What is the best resume template for a Maintenance Planner?
Classic, Compact and Modern work well for Maintenance Planner roles. They are single-column with standard headings, so applicant tracking systems (ATS) parse them reliably.
How long should a Maintenance Planner resume be?
One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Which skills should a Maintenance Planner put on a resume?
Prioritize the skills named in the job posting. Common ones for Maintenance Planner roles are Blueprint and schematic reading, Licences and trade certifications, Safety compliance (OSHA, NFPA 70E, LOTO), Troubleshooting and diagnostics, Preventive maintenance and PLCs and controls.
How do I write strong Maintenance Planner resume bullet points?
Start with an action verb, say what you did, and end with a measurable result such as equipment uptime, scrap rate and OEE. For example: "Rebuilt the PM schedule for 14 injection molders in Fiix, cutting unplanned downtime from 9% to 4% in six months."