Maintenance Planner

Department: Maintenance

Location: Freeport, TX

Travel Involved: Less than 5%

Job Type: Full-time

Description: 

The Maintenance Planner role within MPE is responsible for the duties listed below for mechanical planning activities. Planning requires a detailed job package for each task and resource involved in completing a work order, as assigned by the Production Maintenance Coordinator (PMC) or the planner’s immediate supervisor.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Review each day the notifications prioritized by the PMC to determine which jobs are to be planned.
• Process work notifications and work orders properly, ensuring status codes are correct
• Discuss and understand the notification scope, interacting with the notification issuer and/or maintenance craftsmen to understand history, deficiencies, special requirements, and possible initial troubleshooting
• Create Work Orders from Work Notifications, using appropriate codes for the type of work, such as maint work center.
• Visit the job site and scope out the job by taking pictures, creating drawings and sketches, and assembling a bill of materials. Walking down the job with a craftsman may be required.
• Enter plans into maintenance work orders by developing, within each one, a well-defined list of tasks with an adequately detailed scope of work, including all necessary steps to perform each task and complete the work order.
• Develop special instructions and provide the required documentation, such as MOC, QA/QC forms, data sheets, and piping schematics.
• Create and review Task Lists within SAP to be used for future work
• Request materials, parts, and services, as appropriate, for the maintenance work
• Inform engineers of Add/Change/Delete needs for spare parts that must be managed by procurement or kept in inventory. Also inform when parts aren’t tied to equipment BOM in SAP.
• Review feedback form from Maintenance Technicians, Engineers, etc. on the plans that have been executed or attempted
• Work with the contractor administrator by issuing requisitions for outside contractors on planned jobs so he can issue them PO’s.
• Support, when needed, in issuing POs or SESs for emergency work involving outside contractors.

Preferred Skills, Education, and Experience: 

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Associate degree in Industrial Technology, Mechanical Technology, Engineering Technology, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of industrial maintenance experience, OR
• Minimum 3 years of maintenance planning experience in a manufacturing, chemical, refinery, power generation, or petrochemical facility.
• Experience planning mechanical, piping, rotating equipment, or fixed equipment work.
• Working knowledge of:
  • Pumps
  • Gearboxes
  • Motors
  • Heat exchangers
  • Piping systems
  • Valves
  • Compressors
  • Preventive and predictive maintenance programs
• Ability to read and interpret:
  • P&IDs
  • Equipment drawings
  • Mechanical drawings
  • Isometric drawings
  • Technical manuals