Maintenance Planner

Allied Reliability is hiring for a contract Maintenance Planner for a start-up alternate fuel company for a 6 month project. Uses proven maintenance planning methods and techniques to maximize system availability, throughput, quality, safety, environmental performance, and reduce equipment time to repair. Follows all company environmental, safety, and health guidelines in planning maintenance work. Schedules day-to-day, downturn and outage activities for facility maintenance teams, orders required parts, requests and coordinates subcontracted service. Assignments are broad in nature, requiring appreciable independent action, originality, and ingenuity for successful completion.

• Prepares for work to be executed in support of equipment reliability.
• (Supervisors and/or technicians’ complete preparations for emergency/break in work).
• Working with technical resources as needed, completes job plans with steps/procedures, labor, duration, parts, tools, consumables, drawings, resource documents, safety and environmental considerations, etc. per company standards, for daily work, downturns and outages; equipment modifications; PMs; and Condition Monitoring.
• Develops master plan for downturns and outages.
• Reserves stores material required for planned jobs; requisitions non-stock material; reserves needed tools.
• Manages CMMS use and data, to include 52-week plan, job plans, subcontracted work, work order life and history, job status, closing codes, repair costs, and other CMMS information.
• Manages PM program and CMMS output of inspection schedules for PM, PdM and lubrication routes.
• Identifies material, people, and time required to execute work; verifies availability of those resources prior to scheduling work; arranges for appropriate alternatives as needed.
• Reviews maintenance work order requests for content and clarity; visits job site to understand conditions and requirements; discusses work requests with originator to determine total scope of work and priority; keeps requester apprised as to work order status through completion.
• Works with Maintenance Engineering, Reliability Engineering and MRO to ensure that spares are stocked at appropriate levels.
• Maintains the equipment hierarchy and criticality in CMMS.
• Updates CMMS and job plan BOMs to reflect changes in materials.
• Provides Work Execution Management documents and reports such as Work Orders by Type; Work Backlog; PM Compliance; Weekly, Downturn and Outage Schedules; Overdue PMs; Overdue RCA/RCM action items; Overtime; equipment repair history and cost, trouble calls, and internal customer satisfaction
• Identifies opportunities to improve process, planning or performance through analysis of work order flow, project demands, and expectations.
• Review utilization and cost data to recommend corrective actions to reduce costs.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field or appropriate work experience.

• Good communication skills, including verbal and written communications.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think "outside the box."

• Petrochemical experience is a must Will manage projects, not people Familiarity with:

• Rotating equipment & instrumentation (DP Cells / Rosemont onsite)Piping, Vessels, pumps, towers, columns, Reactor/catalystLow-horsepower motors

• Need someone “well-rounded” – has both mechanical and E&I knowledge.

• Must be highly organized and use efficient work methods.

Basic Qualifications:

Must be U.S. Citizen or National of the U.S., an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or an alien authorized to work in the U.S. for this employer.