The Planning Engineer is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing maintenance planning, scheduling, work management, shutdown planning, and maintenance control processes to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations.
This role supports leadership in maintenance planning and resource coordination, and ensures the effective utilization of labor, materials, and services. A key focus of the position is establishing maintenance planning systems, CMMS processes, and work management standards to support commissioning, start-up, and sustainable plant operations.
Develop and implement maintenance planning and scheduling processes.
Ensure all preventive, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance activities are properly planned and scheduled.
Review work requests and convert approved work into executable job plans.
Develop detailed work packs including labor requirements, materials, tools, permits, and procedures.
Coordinate weekly and monthly maintenance schedules with Operations and Maintenance teams.
Monitor schedule compliance and planning effectiveness.
Ensure maintenance backlogs are effectively managed and prioritized.
Support development of maintenance strategies for critical equipment.
Own and govern the site's maintenance work management process, ensuring compliance with planning, scheduling, execution, and close-out standard
Coordinate with warehouse and procurement teams to ensure timely availability of critical spares and shutdown materials
Develop and maintain maintenance performance dashboards, reporting automation, and planning analytics tools to improve decision-making
Coordinate and lead weekly, monthly and quarterly planning meetings in coordination with stakeholders
WORK MANAGEMENT & CMMS ADMINISTRATIONManage maintenance work management processes within ERP/CMMS systems.
Ensure work order quality, data accuracy, and system compliance.
Develop and maintain equipment hierarchies, asset registers, and maintenance plans.
Monitor key work management KPIs.
Maintain planning and scheduling standards across all maintenance disciplines.
Ensure historical maintenance records are maintained for reliability analysis.
Drive continuous improvement of CMMS utilization and effectiveness.
SHUTDOWN & TURNAROUND PLANNINGLead planning and preparation for plant shutdowns, turnarounds, and major maintenance campaigns.
Develop integrated shutdown schedules and resource plans.
Coordinate labor, equipment, materials, and contractor requirements.
Monitor shutdown planning milestones and readiness reviews.
Support execution teams during shutdown implementation.
Facilitate shutdown governance meetings, readiness reviews, and critical path monitoring activities
Conduct post-shutdown reviews and lessons learned assessments.
PERFORMANCE MONITORING & REPORTINGDevelop maintenance planning and execution performance dashboards.
Monitor KPIs including:
Schedule Compliance
PM Compliance
Backlog Management
Work Order Closure Rates
Contractor Performance
Maintenance Cost Performance
Shutdown Performance
Prepare weekly and monthly maintenance performance reports.
Analyze trends and recommend improvement initiatives.
Support annual maintenance budgeting and forecasting processes.
CONTRACTOR & RESOURCE MANAGEMENTCoordinate with contract administrator for mobilization and demobilization activities.
Evaluate contractor performance and productivity.
Ensure contractors comply with safety, quality, and environmental requirements.
Optimize utilization of labor, equipment, and maintenance resources.
Coordinate external specialist services and OEM support.
LEADERSHIP & TEAM MANAGEMENTLead maintenance planners, schedulers from Contractors
Develop workforce capability and succession plans.
Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Ensure departmental objectives align with maintenance business goals.
SAFETY & COMPLIANCEEnsure compliance with company safety policies and procedures.
Participate in risk assessments and shutdown safety planning.
Ensure contractor compliance with permit-to-work and site safety requirements.
Support incident investigations and corrective action implementation.
Promote safe work practices and zero-harm objectives.
BUDGET & COST CONTROLSupport preparation of annual maintenance budgets.
Monitor maintenance expenditures against approved budgets.
Track contractor costs and service contract performance.
Identify cost optimization opportunities…
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