Maintenance Planner Scheduler

INEOS•Texas City, TX

About The Position

The Asset Care Planner/Scheduler ensures non-emergency preventive and corrective maintenance work is appropriately planned and scheduled for safe, efficient execution in support of safe, compliant, and reliable plant operations. The role also ensures accurate and timely creation and management of maintenance system master data. The position plans routine, preventive, asset-integrity, and inspection work; develops job packages and estimates; coordinates procurement of parts and materials; and uses SAP planning and scheduling tools. It manages rolling three-month planning and delivers an agreed, fully engineered and resourced three-week schedule, coordinating personnel, materials, equipment, contractors, and services. The role monitors work progress, maintains maintenance history and KPI data, supports outage and turnaround work, and helps optimize preventive maintenance programs. The position provides centralized maintenance support to site assets, coordinates scheduling meetings, supports production and equipment availability, and coaches teams on maintenance workflows. It also forecasts and tracks labor, services, materials, and costs; supports procurement and cost-control processes; and may serve as step-up or backup for the Asset Care and Inspection Superintendent, including supervising technicians and craftsmen within the area of responsibility.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Either 10 or more years of direct planning and scheduling experience, with 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 or more years of mechanical maintenance field experience in a petrochemical environment, an accredited associate degree or NCCER certifications in related mechanical crafts, and planning experience.
Knowledge and skill in the SAP Plant Maintenance Module, including running list-edit reports; creating and changing maintenance items, task lists, notifications, and orders; publishing weekly schedules; and creating requisitions.
Ability to publish and issue look-ahead schedules.
Must possess or obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card before the first day of employment.
Hands-on knowledge and experience with mechanical equipment inspection and repairs, crafts, and maintenance work processes.
In-depth knowledge of methods, materials, tools, and equipment used in manufacturing-facility maintenance.
Excellent SAP knowledge, particularly maintenance, storeroom, and purchasing modules.
Ability to develop accurate task lists for preventive and corrective mechanical-equipment jobs.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey technical information to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to identify and address issues promptly, manage multiple tasks and deadlines, and maintain precision and attention to detail.
Ability to collaborate effectively with operations, maintenance, engineering, and other cross-functional teams.
Strong leadership skills and ability to work with little supervision.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree in an applicable field.
Familiarity with Viziya.
Ability to work with vendors to develop detailed cost estimates for materials and specialty labor support.

Responsibilities

Promote and demonstrate safe behaviors; comply with SHE standards, INEOS Life Saving Rules, plant procedures, and regulatory requirements.
Participate in incident investigations, HAZOPs, audits, safety observations, housekeeping, and reviews of safety incidents and near misses.
Maintain safety and regulatory equipment, report defects, and ensure timely completion of asset-integrity activities.
Develop and maintain procedures supporting facility maintenance, ISO 9000, and process safety management requirements.
Plan routine and preventive asset-integrity and inspection jobs using equipment history, procedures, and technical information.
Prepare job packages with inspection records, bills of materials, procedures, and associated job information; estimate large jobs where needed.
Procure and expedite parts, materials, and equipment through established workflows, and resolve procurement issues with Purchasing and Stores.
Use SAP planning and scheduling tools and create preventive maintenance plans.
Determine material, tool, equipment, and manpower requirements and schedule low-priority work orders.
Plan and schedule Asset Care and Inspection maintenance work across a rolling three-month window and deliver an agreed, fully engineered and resourced three-week plan.
Coordinate maintenance work for the allocated discipline, including third parties, risk assessments, work packs, materials, tools, equipment, and services.
Monitor schedule progress and identify, address, and report issues that may affect scope, progress, quality, or cost.
Develop and plan outage scope and support the centralized turnaround team.
Maintain asset work-history data and prepare work to meet KPI requirements and avoid overdue statutory items.
Prepare and analyze maintenance metrics and process-performance KPIs; track craft headcount and capacity for weekly schedule loading.
Coordinate workaround schedules with asset teams and managers to address forecast impacts to critical-path activities.
Review weekly schedules to optimize shared maintenance resources and manage approved schedule breaks.
Provide centralized maintenance support, track preventive-maintenance performance, and generate daily work orders, equipment PMs, assignments, and database reports.
Maintain and optimize the preventive maintenance program, and support equipment availability and production response requirements.
Analyze new-equipment and spare-parts inventory; set up, update, or delete related records and descriptions.
Determine job sequence and priority with production, maintenance supervisors, and planner/schedulers.
Coach Asset Support and Asset teams on maintenance workflows and coordinate weekly scheduling meetings with relevant stakeholders.
Forecast labor, service, and material costs in SAP; estimate requested company and contractor work and progress work authorizations.
Manage weekly maintenance service and material budget allocations and report estimated and actual monthly spending.
Participate in contractor pre-job reviews, initiate requisitions, track purchase orders and goods receipts, and support compliant procurement controls.
Compare job execution and actual labor and material costs against job plans and estimates, updating standard jobs where applicable.
Help maintenance obtain additional tools, materials, and services needed during planned work execution.
Participate in the plant quality process and ensure estimates for manpower, man-hours, and costs are available for planned work.
Generate and implement cost-reduction ideas to improve department and plant cost efficiency.
Serve as step-up or backup for the Asset Care and Inspection Superintendent, including supervising technicians and craftsmen within the area of responsibility.
Conduct field audits, lead start-of-day meetings, build teamwork across organizations, and coach or support employees in the work area.