Maintenance Planner - I&E (Instrumentation)

Responsibilities -

• The position’s responsibilities include every aspect of chemical plant instrument and electrical planning for both preventative and corrective maintenance activities.
• This position actively supports improving the safety, reliability, and operability of the facility.
• This position will require a self-starter that can independently develop job plans for distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, instrumentation, motors, and low-voltage power distribution systems.
• This role works with manufacturing personnel, maintenance personnel, contractors and others to provide high quality job plans for technicians and craftsmen.
• The IE&A Planner/Scheduler is accountable for scheduling maintenance work ensuring that all work activities can be planned proactively, in a safe and environmentally sound manner, assuring compliance with established codes, procedures.
• This position will also develop, maintain & analyze routine corrective maintenance, outage and project schedules and provide front end loaded schedules to assist in developing and revising outage/project scope documents as needed.
• Additional duties include conducting scheduled maintenance, collecting progress data, developing and implementing project/outage schedule/status reports, and providing consistent, accurate information to the routine maintenance execution as well as project/outage execution teams.
• The purpose of the IE&A Planner/Scheduler role is to ensure non-emergency preventive and corrective maintenance work is appropriately planned and scheduled to ensure safe, efficient execution of asset maintenance in support of safe, compliant, and reliable ASA plant operations.

Qualifications - [Education details]

Required Skills

• Software capability (SAP) and ability to adapt to changes
• Lead through the transition period of a new company and organization
• Regulatory requirements (e.g., OSHA, TCEQ, API Standards)
• Contractor management
• Lead-time to procure parts and equipment
• Exposure to changes in market conditions
• Vendor support and know-how

Preferred Skills

• High school diploma or equivalent required, Associate degree in instrumentation or electrical field is preferred.
• 10+ direct planning and scheduling experience and demonstrated proficiency in industry-wide and plant-specific safety, equipment repair, work process planning, piping and instrumentation layout, and personnel management techniques and procedures.
• OR
• 5+ years electrical and/or instrumentation maintenance field experience in a petrochemical environment, Accredited associate degree or NCCER Certifications in I&E and planning experience.
• Knowledge and skill in the SAP Plant Maintenance Module is required.
• This includes, but not limited to, running list edit reports.
• Creating and changing maintenance items and task lists, creating and changing notifications, orders, publishing weekly schedules and creating requisitions.
• Publishing and issuing look ahead schedules to provide for additional maintenance execution efficiencies.
• Must possess or obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card prior to first day of employment.