Power Distribution Planner/Scheduler

INEOS•Texas City, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Power Distribution Planner/Scheduler role is responsible for ensuring 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 plant operations. This role also ensures accurate and timely creation and management of maintenance system master data.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent required.
10+ years of direct planning and scheduling experience.
Demonstrated proficiency in industry-wide and plant-specific safety, equipment repair, work process planning, and personnel management techniques and procedures.
Knowledge and skill in the SAP Plant Maintenance Module is required.
Must possess or obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card prior to first day of employment.
Hands-on knowledge and experience with various types of Instrumentation and Electrical systems and equipment, and crafts, along with an understanding of maintenance work processes.
Must possess and maintain an In-depth knowledge of methods, materials, tools, and equipment used in the maintenance of manufacturing facilities.
Excellent knowledge of SAP with specific knowledge in the maintenance, storeroom, and purchasing modules.
Ability to develop accurate task lists for both preventative and corrective jobs on electrical equipment.
Ability to work with vendors to develop detailed cost estimates for materials and specialty labor support.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential for collaborating with teams, stakeholders, and clients.
The ability to identify and address issues promptly is crucial.
Juggling multiple tasks and deadlines requires effective time management.
Precision and high attention to detail and accuracy matters in planning and scheduling.
Collaboration skills: Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including operations, maintenance, and engineering personnel.
Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong leadership skills.
Self-starter, able to work with little supervision.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree in electrical field is preferred.
5+ years electrical maintenance field experience in a petrochemical environment.
Accredited associate degree or NCCER Certifications in high voltage and planning experience.
Running list edit reports in SAP.
Creating and changing maintenance items and task lists in SAP.
Creating and changing notifications and orders in SAP.
Publishing weekly schedules in SAP.
Creating requisitions in SAP.
Publishing and issuing look ahead schedules to provide for additional maintenance execution efficiencies.
Familiarity with Viziya.

Responsibilities

Ensuring compliance with SHE (Safety, Health, Environmental) standards and expectations.
Leading the work group’s efforts in promoting and demonstrating safe behaviors.
Ensuring the safe and reliable operation of the plant by strict adherence to plant procedures and timely completion of all electrical integrity activities.
Developing and maintaining procedures as needed to comply with facility maintenance, ISO 9000, and process safety management requirements.
Planning routine and preventive instrument/electrical maintenance jobs to establish accurate job steps and proper manpower utilization.
Producing job packages to provide inspection records, parts lists (BOM), procedures and complete information associated with a job.
Producing job estimates for large jobs to assist in decisions within business guidelines.
Procuring parts, materials and equipment through the defined procurement workflow in a timely manner that meets the set job priority for scheduling.
Interfacing with Purchasing and Stores to resolve issues and barriers that occur in the parts procurement process.
Using the planning/scheduling tools in SAP and navigating, running reports and entering data in ProCal instrument management system.
Planning and supporting all electrical aspects of ISO and quality management programs to maintain ISO certifications.
Creating SAP preventative maintenance plans.
Determining accurate requirements for and scheduling all material and manpower for low priority work orders.
Executing the process that plans and schedules the Power Distribution maintenance work for a rolling 3-month window.
Delivering an agreed 3-week fully engineered and resourced plan to optimize the use of resources and deliver a productive, cost effective and safe maintenance service to the Assets.
Planning, pre-engineering and coordinating all maintenance work for the allocated discipline.
Monitoring and driving progress to meet the schedule.
Identifying, addressing and reporting upon issues with the potential to effect scope, progress, quality or cost.
Developing and planning Outage scope and supporting centralized TAR team to deliver TAR work scope.
Maintaining the asset work history data in the maintenance management system to enable effective planning.
Planning and preparing work to ensure full KPI compliance requirements and no overdue statutory items.
Preparing and analyzing metric reports and applicable maintenance process performance KPIs.
Recording, tracking and monitoring craft headcount and capacities to ensure adequate schedule loading on a weekly basis.
Working with the Asset teams, managers, and others to develop work-around schedules to alleviate forecasted impacts to the critical path activities.
Working closely with others involved in the maintenance work process to handle schedule breaks that are approved.
Performing review of drafted weekly schedule to optimize the use of site maintenance shared resource groups.
Delivering against front-end maintenance KPIs and suggesting interventions for measurable improvements where required.
Ensuring compliance with the agreed maintenance planning processes/workflow.
New equipment and spare parts inventory analysis, set up, change descriptions and deletion.
Determining job sequence and priority through coordination with production, maintenance supervisors, and planner/schedulers.
Managing and tracking maintenance PM performance.
Ensuring that the preventive maintenance program is a living and evolving program that is updated and optimized at all times.
Supporting production activities at all times by ensuring minimum response times to equipment breakdowns and achievement of equipment availability targets.
Supporting and coaching members of the Asset Support and Asset teams on the maintenance workflow process.
Working directly with other planning and scheduling team members as needed to ensure all required deliverables are achieved.
Coordinating weekly scheduling meetings with Work Execution Supervisors, Coordinators, Maintenance Supervisors, Operations Supervisor, Planners, and others.
Leveraging knowledge and skills of SAP software to forecast labor, services, and material costs in order to execute maintenance strategies and provide cost to Asset Managers.
Scoping and estimating all requested INEOS and contractor work, challenging as necessary prior to work commencing.
Progressing work authorization via agreed processes and monitoring execution to deliver a cost effective service.
Managing weekly services and materials maintenance budget allocation and providing reports on both estimated and actual Monthly spends.
Participating in pre-job review meetings with outside service contractors to review job requirements.
Procurement of maintenance goods and materials including initiating requisitions, tracking purchase orders, and goods receipts using computerized system.
Analyzing the execution of the job versus the job plan and comparing labor and material actual versus estimates.
Updating standard jobs if applicable.
Assisting maintenance in obtaining additional tools, material, and services required for planned jobs during execution.
Supporting the sites in the commitment to ensuring effective procurement processes and internal controls are in place with legally compliant standards.
Actively participating in the plant Quality process and ensuring that manpower, man-hour, and cost estimates are available for all planned work.
Generating and implementing cost reduction ideas to continuously improve cost efficiencies for the department and plant.
Supervising the Technicians within area of responsibility.
Knowing and following all safety and environmental rules/regulations that affect the work area, adhering to all job expectations and both company and department policies and procedures.
Performing field audits.
Leading a high-quality start of day meeting that clearly communicates expected safety and job performance behaviors and results.
Developing relationships to promote teamwork between organizations.
Spending some portion of their day in the work area or in the field coaching/supporting their employees.