Maintenance Planner; Augusta, GA - Austin Industrial; NUTR

Maintenance Planner (Augusta, GA) - Austin Industrial (NUTR)

Austin Industrial provides premier self‑perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single‑source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

The primary objective of a Major Spares & Mechanical Planner is to improve plant reliability and efficiency through planning, coordinating, and maintaining mechanical assets identified as major and/or capital spares based on criticality and other qualifying factors.

• Develop and maintain an equipment/asset database to manage Major Spares. Database information includes equipment identifiers: asset numbers, item descriptions, item store stock numbers; equipment storage and/or repair location information.
• Ship and track high‑priority equipment (Turbo Rotors, Bearings/Seal Kits, Turbo couplings, Compressors, Blowers, Gearboxes, Trunnions, Torque Converters, Valves, Motors, Pumps, etc.).
• Provide management with the location/status of equipment monthly and maintain equipment files and procedures to ensure up‑to‑date reference materials for future jobs.
• Maintain the Major Spares project structure in Oracle EAM.
• Document repair status updates, previous repair dates, in‑depth repair scope, and repair vendor details.
• Document life cycles of spares, track and record spares spending, and provide spend analysis and reporting.
• Provide budget estimates for repair or replacement costs and forecast expected spend to align with a 5‑year budgeting plan.
• Develop and maintain inspection job plan templates, data packages for each piece of critical equipment, and perform or assist with reliability walk‑throughs and inspections.
• Establish and maintain professional partnerships with vendors/contractors to facilitate customer needs.
• Research and provide vendors with all information needed for accurate proposals.
• Initiate purchase requisitions for materials, parts, and equipment within corporate authorization limits.
• Write SSA's for new parts and existing equipment as necessary and delete obsolete items to ensure correct parts are used.
• Provide management with capital spare equipment needing repairs on a periodic basis.
• Attend Turbo machinery conferences such as the Pump and Turbo machinery Symposium, as requested.
• Plan capital spare and mechanical work orders for routine work, normal outages, and turnarounds; review each work order to ensure proper information has been supplied by the originator.
• Discuss work order scope with maintenance and operations to fully define the scope, consult with engineering, safety, or other technical departments when specialized advice is required, and obtain necessary approval for specialized items.
• Plan maintenance work orders, develop job sequencing, identify basic steps and associated resources, estimate steps and materials, issue requisitions, and benchmark work orders for future asset activities.
• Attend the weekly Planner Meeting to stay up‑to‑date with onsite planning efforts.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and attributes:

• Good planning and organizational skills with proactive mindset.
• Ability to work in team environments and drive continuous improvement performance across the organization.
• Strong communication skills, with tact and diplomacy, and superior active listening skills.
• Ability to establish relationships, address conflict, and use appropriate resolution skills.
• Competent working in cross‑functional and multi‑task environments.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks, respond timely, and manage time appropriately.
• Willingness to train others in scheduling‑related functions and work on continuous improvement aspects of scheduling.

• Minimum 4 years in industrial planning and scheduling.
• Valid driver’s license.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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