Mechanical Maintenance Planner

JOB SUMMARY: This position is responsible for managing unplanned work and developing job plans to drive work execution efficiency and asset availability. This includes generating work steps with labor, material, equipment, and services, estimating labor and material costs; creating job packets for field execution and continually improving job plans via updates based upon feedback from the Execution Teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage the backlog of unplanned work:
  • Review the backlog and planning list.
  • Clarify incomplete or unclear work notifications.
  • Group work orders and/or notifications together that can be planned and completed as a single order.
  • Determine the appropriate degree of planning.
  • Utilize the proper SAP status codes including work order start and finish dates to allow proper scheduling of the work order.
• Work Order Planning:
  • Create job plans for the effective execution of work by providing job scopes, job step sequence, labor and material requirements, skill requirements, specifying the necessary tools and equipment, external resources, and determining work order costs.
  • Identify permitting requirements and special isolation needs.
  • Create task lists (job plan library) for recurring jobs.
  • Create purchase requisitions and reservations for necessary materials, equipment or services and orders material.
  • Forward completed “ready-to-schedule” job packages to the Scheduler.
  • Continually improve the job plans by collaborating with Maintenance Supervisors and Engineers to 1) Maintain a spare parts inventory, 2) Build & Maintain Bill of Materials for area equipment, 3) Continually update task lists to ensure: necessary changes or improvements are incorporated, and efficiencies are captured per job feedback, 4) Obtaining and analyzing feedback from the work crew through the job feedback process and 5) Updating the task list and job plan libraries.
  • Review work scopes for changes which would result in triggering a Management of Change (MoC)
  • Create Job Packets as needed by providing spec sheets, vendor manuals, P&IDs, pictures, isolation plans, job plan/feedback form, etc.
• Turnaround Planning
  • Create job plans for the effective execution of turnaround projects: job scopes, job step sequence, labor and material requirements, skill requirements, specifying the necessary tools and equipment, external resources, and determining work order costs
  • Participate and coordinate with turnaround group on scheduled jobs and external resource needs.
  • Coordinate purchase requisitions / purchase orders and expedite orders to assure scheduled delivery for turnaround.

Key Qualifications:

Education/ Experience

• Requires High School Diploma or equivalent
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a chemical/petrochemical or other similar manufacturing environment.

Knowledge/Specialized Skills

• Hands on knowledge and experience with various types of process systems and equipment, and crafts, along with an understanding of maintenance work processes. Possess an understanding of maintenance scheduling.
• Ability to procure and expedite materials and resources.
• Deal effectively with the unknown and unexpected and possess the ability to handle non-routine and emergency activities, such as plant shutdowns, start-up, etc.
• Excellent organizational and work management skills.
• Keen attention to detail and a high degree of quality orientation
• Analytical Thinking
• Quality Orientation & Attention to Detail
• Work Management
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills
• Entrepreneurial Actions
• Customer Focus
• Strategic Thinking

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Communicate with supervision and Production
• High sense of urgency
• Performs duties in a manner that fosters good teamwork and is consistent with our vision of maintenance being a high-performance work team.
• Be able to lift 60 lbs., walk, sit, squat, bend, push/pull with arms/legs, body, reach overhead, stoop.
• Available for flexible hours and overtime as required to support Maintenance activities including shutdown both planned and un-planned.
• The process problems include dealing with the technical difficulties of corrosive and hazardous chemicals and operating temperatures up to 2400°