Maintenance Planner (Expression of Interest)

Wood Group • Lake Charles, LA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Wood is recruiting a Maintenance Planner for its Operations Americas business. This onsite opportunity is based in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and supports LNG plant operations and project transitions. Discipline-focused planners are sought in Mechanical, Electrical, and Instrumentation & Controls (I&C). The role supports CMMS optimization and maintenance data improvement across operating assets and project transitions, working with CMMS Specialists, Reliability Engineers, Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering teams. Planners apply maintenance planning expertise and equipment knowledge to improve maintenance planning data, preventive maintenance programs, equipment hierarchies, and Bills of Material (BOMs) in SAP PM. The work supports data validation, maintenance strategy alignment, and standardization of maintenance master data for safe, reliable long-term operations.

Wood’s Operations business delivers operations, maintenance, modifications, brownfield engineering, asset optimization, and management services across the energy and materials industries, supporting clients throughout the asset lifecycle.

The position includes reviewing and optimizing maintenance plans, job plans, and task lists; validating preventive maintenance requirements; standardizing maintenance planning; supporting asset register and equipment hierarchy validation; reviewing and optimizing BOMs and spare parts; and cleansing, validating, and updating maintenance data using Excel and SAP. The role may include field verification and walkdowns as required.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of maintenance planning experience in LNG, oil and gas, petrochemical, refining, power generation, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Strong maintenance planning experience in the assigned discipline: Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation & Controls (I&C).
• Hands-on experience with SAP PM.
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance programs, maintenance workflows, and equipment strategies.
• Experience developing or reviewing maintenance plans, task lists, functional locations, equipment records, and Bills of Material (BOMs).
• Experience reviewing OEM documentation, IOM manuals, and spare parts data.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data manipulation, filtering, lookup functions, and large dataset management.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning best practices and maintainable asset structures.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to participate in field walkdowns and equipment validation activities.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced project and operations environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting CMMS optimization or maintenance data improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of ISO 14224 equipment hierarchy principles.
• Experience supporting commissioning, startup, or project turnover activities.
• Familiarity with maintenance reliability concepts and criticality assessments.
• Experience with bulk data load tools such as Winshuttle.

Responsibilities

• Review and optimize maintenance plans, job plans, and task lists within SAP PM.
• Validate preventive maintenance requirements using OEM recommendations, maintenance strategies, and operational experience.
• Support maintenance planning standardization across facilities and systems.
• Develop and improve work packages, labor estimates, durations, sequencing, and resource requirements.
• Participate in maintenance strategy and preventive maintenance optimization workshops.
• Validate equipment records, functional locations, and parent-child relationships.
• Support alignment of equipment hierarchy structures to client standards and ISO 14224.
• Review equipment criticality, maintainable asset boundaries, and system relationships.
• Assist with field verification and validation of equipment and associated data.
• Support cleansing and consolidation of equipment and tag data.
• Review and validate spare parts lists, SPIR/SPIL documentation, and OEM recommendations.
• Support BOM development and optimization for maintainable assets.
• Identify interchangeable, repairable, and common spare opportunities.
• Assist with material master mapping and spare part standardization.
• Support workshops and reviews with maintenance and technical subject matter experts.
• Review, cleanse, validate, and manipulate data using Excel and SAP.
• Support bulk data updates and load sheet validation activities.
• Track action items, progress updates, and KPI reporting.
• Ensure maintenance data complies with client master data standards and governance requirements.
• Work across multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews.
• Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle.
• Flexible working arrangements to balance client, team, and individual needs; this opportunity is onsite.
• Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests.
• Employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed