Maintenance Planner

Organizational Context

With LAO manufacturing facilities in Canada and Belgium, INEOS Oligomers is one of the large merchant suppliers of Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO).

INEOS Oligomers

Maintenance Planner

Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, TX - USA

With LAO manufacturing facilities in Canada and Belgium, INEOS Oligomers is one of the large merchant suppliers of Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO). LAO is used in a variety of industries, with main markets being comonomers for polyethylene, feedstock for production of lubricants, surfactants, lubricant additives, and paper sizing chemicals, and base stock for drilling fluids. PAO is a synthetic lubricant. As part of its growth strategy, INEOS Oligomers invested $500 million in a new world scale LAO & PAO production facility located in Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, Texas.

INEOS Oligomers is hiring a Maintenance Planner that will report to the TAR & Capital Supervisor. As a Responsible Care company, we encourage our employees to embrace the principles of Responsible Care® by actively practicing them, promoting awareness of Responsible Care® and encouraging others to commit to these principles. Responsible Care® is the chemistry industry's commitment to sustainability - the betterment of society, the environment and the economy.

Its ethic and principles compel us to innovate for safer and more environmentally friendly products and processes, and to work cooperatively to identify and eliminate harm throughout the entire life cycle of their products.

The Maintenance Planner role is responsible for ensuring maintenance work is accurately planned and scheduled in a safe, effective and efficient way.

• Company policies and procedures
• Technical training, documentation, and tools
• Equipment reliability
• Maintenance budget
• Equipment preparation and work permit process
• Maintenance department organization

• Vendor support and know-how

• Work safely by following all Company and Site policies, procedures, and expectations.
• Work order planning
• Review and validate clarity of work requests.
• Visit job location and field verify work request requirements.
• Develop work plans that minimize equipment downtime and maximize safe/efficient/effective use of resources.
• Identify material needs.
• Define scope of work for contract services.
• Produce cost estimates and request budget approval as required.
• Initiate procurement and track status of materials and contract services.
• Produce the job package and documentation.
• Develop standard plans and maintain library.
• Initiate the review of plan performance for continuous improvement of the planning process. Facilitate daily and weekly planning & scheduling meetings.
• Responsible for maintaining backlog.
• Responsible for planning & scheduling related KPI measures.
• On a periodic rotating schedule, act as Maintenance Department contact for organizing night and weekend callout support.
• Complete other duties assigned by the TAR and Capital Supervisor.
• Backup Scheduler:
  Maintenance Work Order Scheduling
• Organize weekly work orders schedules.
• Build weekly and daily schedules that minimize equipment downtime and maximize efficient/effective use of resources.
• In consultation with Maintenance and Production leadership, ensure work schedules are aligned with business plan objectives.
• Identify potential constraints/deficiencies/trends that could impact the schedule and recommend corrective action.
• Set net capacity for the crafts based on information about the related available labor.
• Receive daily schedule updates from maintenance personnel and update the weekly schedule.
• Track compliance of PPM task completion and advise the Maintenance Department of issues impacting the effectiveness of the PPM program.
• Facilitate daily and weekly planning & scheduling meetings.

• High school diploma required; 2-year technical degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years in an industrial maintenance environment. Petrochemical plant or refinery experience required.

• Ability to demonstrate strong working knowledge of process and…