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 and efficient execution, supporting safe, compliant, and reliable plant operations. The role also ensures accurate and timely creation and management of maintenance system master data. The position plans and schedules maintenance and inspection work, develops job packages and estimates, coordinates labor, materials, tools, equipment, and contractor services, and monitors maintenance execution and performance. It uses SAP and related systems to manage preventive maintenance plans, work orders, procurement, scheduling, costs, and equipment history. The role supports Asset teams, production, maintenance, and centralized turnaround activities, and may serve as step-up or backup for the Asset Care and Inspection Superintendent, supervising technicians and craftsmen within its 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.
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 to maintain manufacturing facilities.
Excellent SAP knowledge, particularly in maintenance, storeroom, and purchasing modules.
Ability to develop accurate task lists for preventive and corrective jobs on mechanical equipment.
Familiarity with SAP and Viziya.
Ability to work with vendors to develop detailed cost estimates for materials and specialty labor support.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to identify and address issues promptly.
Effective time management and ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
High attention to detail and accuracy in planning and scheduling.
Ability to collaborate effectively with operations, maintenance, engineering, and other cross-functional teams.
Strong leadership skills.
Self-starter able to work with little supervision.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree in an applicable field.
NCCER certifications in related mechanical crafts, as an alternative component of the stated experience pathway.

Responsibilities

Follow SHE standards and INEOS safety principles; promote safe behaviors and participate in safety activities, incident investigations, HAZOPs, audits, observations, and housekeeping.
Support safe and reliable plant operation by following plant procedures, completing asset integrity activities on time, maintaining procedures, and reporting defects in safety and regulatory equipment.
Plan routine, preventive, asset integrity, and inspection work using equipment history, procedures, and technical information; establish job steps and manpower needs.
Prepare job packages with inspection records, bills of materials, procedures, and other job information, and produce estimates for large jobs.
Procure and expedite parts, materials, and equipment through established workflows; work with Purchasing and Stores to resolve procurement issues.
Use SAP planning and scheduling tools and create SAP preventive maintenance plans.
Schedule material, tools, equipment, and manpower for low-priority work orders; manage a rolling three-month planning window and deliver an agreed, engineered and resourced three-week plan.
Pre-engineer and coordinate maintenance work, ensuring risk assessments, work packs, materials, tools, equipment, services, and third parties are ready.
Monitor schedule progress and identify, address, and report risks to scope, progress, quality, or cost; coordinate work-around schedules and approved schedule breaks.
Develop and plan outage scope and support the centralized turnaround team in delivering turnaround work.
Maintain maintenance-management work history data, prepare work to meet KPI requirements, and prevent overdue statutory items.
Prepare and analyze maintenance metrics and KPIs; track craft headcount and capacity and review weekly schedules to optimize shared site resources.
Provide centralized maintenance support to Assets, including improving front-end maintenance KPIs and ensuring compliance with maintenance planning processes and workflows.
Analyze and manage new equipment and spare-parts inventory data, including setup, description changes, and deletion; determine job sequence and priority in coordination with production and maintenance teams.
Manage preventive maintenance performance, including daily work orders and assignments, equipment PMs, and database reports; keep the preventive maintenance program current and optimized.
Support production by minimizing response times to equipment breakdowns and helping achieve equipment availability targets; coach Asset Support and Asset teams on maintenance workflow.
Coordinate weekly scheduling meetings with work execution, maintenance, operations, planning, and other personnel; collaborate with planning and scheduling team members to deliver required work.
Use SAP to forecast labor, service, and material costs; manage weekly maintenance budget allocations and report estimated and actual monthly spending.
Scope and estimate company and contractor work, advance work authorizations through agreed processes, monitor execution, and participate in contractor pre-job reviews.
Initiate requisitions and track purchase orders and goods receipts; support compliant procurement processes and internal controls.
Compare job execution and actual labor and material costs against the job plan and estimates, updating standard jobs where applicable; help obtain additional tools, materials, and services during execution.
Ensure manpower, man-hour, and cost estimates are available for planned work; generate and implement cost-reduction ideas.
Serve as step-up or backup for the Asset Care and Inspection Superintendent, supervising technicians and craftsmen within the area of responsibility.
Follow safety, environmental, company, and department policies; perform field audits, lead start-of-day meetings, build teamwork across organizations, and coach or support employees in the work area.