How to become a maintenance planner
Official title: Maintenance planner
Also called: Maintenance scheduler, Shutdown coordinator, Shutdown planner, Fuel System Operations Executive, Fuel System Operations Manager/Fuel System Operations Senior Executive, Maintenance scheduler, Shutdown planner
Maintenance planner coordinates with stakeholders to plan and schedule routine and non-routine maintenance work to support plant operations. He/she optimises maintenance plans and schedules to minimise plant downtime and total maintenance cost.
Main tasks
- Analysing and coordinating the logistical, production and maintenance functions of organisations
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: $78,480 a year. The middle half earn $53,700 to $104,880 a year.
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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- Logistics/Production planner
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- Operations officer (administrative)
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- Executive secretary
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Questions people ask
How much does a maintenance planner earn in Singapore?
Median full-time pay is $78,480 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $53,700 to $104,880.
Will AI change the work of a maintenance planner?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026