A professional who plans and coordinates schedule of preventive maintenance for equipment, machinery, tools, or buildings. Responsibilities include:

• Reviews manufacturers' service manuals, own establishment's usage schedules, and records of maintenance problems to determine optimum frequency of preventive maintenance.
• Studies production and operation schedules and confers with other staff and with maintenance supervisors to determine when planned maintenance will least interfere with operation of establishment.
• Estimates costs of personnel, parts, and supplies to be used during scheduled maintenance.
• Maintains records of planned and completed maintenance.
• May develop and coordinate plans for reconstruction or installation of new equipment, machinery, or buildings.
• May direct and coordinate activities of subordinate staff, such as maintenance data analyst .
• May direct and coordinate activities of maintenance workers.