Maintenance Planner

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Braskem America is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Braskem S.A. headquartered in Philadelphia. The company is the leading producer of polypropylene in the United States, with six production plants located in Texas, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, as well as an Innovation and Technology Center in Pittsburgh and a New Renewable Innovation Center in Lexington, which focuses on leveraging groundbreaking developments in biotechnology and chemical catalysis.

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Department: Maintenance

Location: Freeport, TX

Travel Involved: Less than 5%

Job Type: Full-time

The Maintenance Planner role within MPE is responsible for the duties listed below for mechanical planning activities. Planning requires a detailed job package for each task and resource involved in completing a work order, as assigned by the Production Maintenance Coordinator (PMC) or the planner’s immediate supervisor.

• Review each day the notifications prioritized by the PMC to determine which jobs are to be planned.
• Process work notifications and work orders properly, ensuring status codes are correct
• Discuss and understand the notification scope, interacting with the notification issuer and/or maintenance craftsmen to understand history, deficiencies, special requirements, and possible initial troubleshooting
• Create Work Orders from Work Notifications, using appropriate codes for the type of work, such as maint work center.
• Visit the job site and scope out the job by taking pictures, creating drawings and sketches, and assembling a bill of materials. Walking down the job with a craftsman may be required.
• Enter plans into maintenance work orders by developing, within each one, a well-defined list of tasks with an adequately detailed scope of work, including all necessary steps to perform each task and complete the work order.
• Develop special instructions and provide the required documentation, such as MOC, QA/QC forms, data sheets, and piping schematics.
• Create and review Task Lists within SAP to be used for future work
• Request materials, parts, and services, as appropriate, for the maintenance work
• Inform engineers of Add/Change/Delete needs for spare parts that must be managed by procurement or kept in inventory. Also inform when parts aren’t tied to equipment BOM in SAP.
• Review feedback form from Maintenance Technicians, Engineers, etc. on the plans that have been executed or attempted
• Work with the contractor administrator by issuing requisitions for outside contractors on planned jobs so he can issue them PO’s.
• Support, when needed, in issuing POs or SESs for emergency work involving outside contractors.

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Associate degree in Industrial Technology, Mechanical Technology, Engineering Technology, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of industrial maintenance experience, OR
• Minimum 3 years of maintenance planning experience in a manufacturing, chemical, refinery, power generation, or petrochemical facility.
• Experience…