Maintenance Planner

Job Reference 1251482

Location Freeport, Texas, United States

Industry Process - Chemicals

Function Planning / Scheduling

Job Type Contract

Date Added November 18, 2024

Our client is seeking a Maintenance Planner to work within their facility located in Freeport, TX, for a long-term contract.

The Maintenance Planner will provide field maintenance planning for the safe and efficient execution of maintenance work in a 24x7 continuous process chemical plant using SAP.

Job Responsibilities:

• Know, understand and be able to field plan and prepare job packages. Build safety into job plans to ensure the work can be executed safely.
• Understand and have the necessary functioning capability to prepare job plans in the SAP CMMS.
• Receive and review for completeness, authorized work orders from the gatekeeper. Determine if the work order is complete and if the information is accurate.
• Consistently and constructively provide feedback to the gatekeeper of any improvements that could be or should be made to improve work order planning.
• As necessary and required, perform field checks associated with the equipment in the work order.
• Prepare a detailed job package and place the major job steps in the SAP CMMS job plan, identifying the correct crafts and time allocations for each major job step.
• Identify required materials from either stores or external suppliers based upon detailed job plans. Prepare the needed purchase requisition and hand off the completed documents to the purchasing and/or material coordinator.
• Identify required external services based upon the detailed job plans. Prepare the needed purchase orders or release documents, then hand off the completed documents to the purchasing and/or material coordinator.
• Openly, willingly and with an encouraging attitude, accept constructive feedback from crafts to improve all aspects of job planning.
• Assure that work orders selected by the gatekeeper have been coded as "Planned" and "Ready to Schedule" and that parts, materials and external resources, if required, are available.
• Perform back-up functions for the Scheduler using Prometheus and includes facilitating daily and weekly scheduling meetings.
• May be asked to support turnaround activities at site in a planning or coordinating role.
• Participates in Environmental, Health, & Safety initiatives as set forth by the company. Participates in and completes company-required training programs.