I&E Maintenance Planner

Join the ECI Group's Professional Technical Services Network as a onsite I&E Maintenance Planner
. This an 18- 24-month duration from award based in the New Orleans (Waggaman) area.
Note:
You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position.

Our client is developing and operating a major chemical manufacturing facility in Waggaman, Louisiana, producing Dimethyl Carbonate (DMC) and Ethyl Methyl Carbonate (EMC) for the battery supply chain. The site is a petrochemical/chemical manufacturing operation requiring engineering support for construction, commissioning, startup, reliability, maintenance, and operations activities

The Instrument & Electrical Planner role has responsibility for daily Instrumentation & Electrical work, Maintenance Planning and driving improvement to standardize best practices in the Planning function. This role is fundamental and critical to the effective and efficient execution of maintenance work through job planning, estimating, obtaining, and receiving materials to execute maintenance work within the boundaries established by management.

• Prepare detailed work packages and job plans that include equipment, parts, materials, documentation, and special tools and for the delivery of these parts and services when they are needed and maintaining an appropriate backlog of effectively planned work ready for scheduling when maintenance resources are available.
• Maintain established metrics of performance to ensure the maintenance function continues to improve.
• Plan all maintenance work orders in SAP by analyzing basic job steps, determining their relative sequence, and identifying parts, materials, special tools, skills, and personnel requirements for each step.
• Review engineering drawings and sketches necessary to complete the work order plan.
• Screen each work order request for proper completion, discusses the details with the originating area, and ensures the work is clearly defined and properly authorized.
• Develop estimate for craft hours, labor, and material costs for each work order.
• Review the work area for potential safety hazards and makes appropriate notes in the job plan. Include any required safety procedures and standards in the work package.
• Create a list of materials by quantity and type required to perform work requested. Develop and communicate material staging plan and ensure job kits are prepared and ready before they are needed for the job.
• Identify needs for support work orders such as sheet metal work, scaffolding, insulation removal, heavy equipment, rigging, etc.
• Prepare work packages that include drawings, work permits, procedures, special tools, job plan, work order, safety requirements, and materials.
• Maintain sufficient planned maintenance backlog for assigned work crews. Routinely communicate status to appropriate Line Leadership and specialist/ coordinators.
• Deliver assembled work packages to the appropriate work groups before the work is to be implemented.
• Review all completed work orders and determine craft hours spent versus the job plan estimate.
• Publish established planning and scheduling performance metrics for the work group.
• Develop and archive job plans and maintain job plan library.
• Adjust job plan library information based on job audits and by reviewing execution feedback forms and adjusting preventive maintenance plans and corrective maintenance standard task lists.
• Maintain accuracy of equipment bill of material database in SAP. Sets up any missing bill of materials for equipment.
• Recommend minimum essential stocking of spare parts and eliminate spare parts from inventory that are no longer needed. Routinely review material inventory for spare parts available.
• Provide support for the maintenance budgeting process.
• Attend monthly safety meetings and complete company-required training programs.
• Prepare annual and bi-annual maintenance plans for all majorplant
  
  Instrument / Electrical equipment site wide including opportunistic shutdowns. Plans should include detailed schedules of all tasks to be performed, the necessary resources allocated both internal and external, the…