Maintenance Planner – Oil & Gas | Dubai

TQM Zone DMCC; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

TQM Zone DMCC in Dubai is seeking a Maintenance Planner to lead shutdown planning, scheduling, and coordination with operations to safeguard asset integrity and safety. You will manage turnaround timelines, prepare work packs, and ensure parts and resources are available for efficient execution.

The role requires a mechanical engineer with a decade of experience in plant maintenance planning, strong Primavera and CMMS skills, and fluency in English for clear reporting and cross-team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with specialization in Mechanical.
• Total minimum of 10 years of experience, incl. 7 years in plant maintenance scheduling.
• At least 3 years on-site maintenance experience in petrochemical/oil & gas.

Responsibilities

• Set up Turnaround Overall Schedule with milestones and critical path.
• Determine job events and sequences for repairs with operations & maintenance teams.
• Verify schedule accuracy and report progress and challenges.
• Develop repair schedules, spare parts lists, and manning requirements.
• Prepare shutdown work scope and work packs with related drawings and ITPs.
• Issue work orders and purchase requisitions; ensure material availability.
• Maintain CMMS data accuracy and communicate with warehouse for parts.

Skills

Plant maintenance planning

Scheduling and scheduling analysis

Fast decision making

English communication

Analytical skills

EHS awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

CMMS (Oracle / SAP / Maximo)

Job description

Need a Maintenance Planner immediately for a reputed Oil and Gas firm based in Dubai for plan shutdown and turnaround activities of plant assets, daily maintenance and preventive maintenance activities in liaison with other departments for ensuring the integrity, operational safety, quality, reliability, and availability in a cost-effective way.

Main accountabilities involve:

• Setting-up the Turnaround Overall Schedule/Bar-chart, Identifying the Major Milestones and Critical Path jobs.
• Responsible to determine job event, job sequence of repairing equipment (Daily, unplanned shutdown, turnaround) and expected close communication with operations, maintenance supervisors, maintenance foreman and engineers.
• Verification of schedule accuracy and completeness.
• Reporting of progress and challenges to schedule.
• Responsible to develop repair schedule, spare part list, manpower, facilities, services as required for repairing equipment.
• Prepare and Finalization of shutdown Work Scope and work pack (P&A, Isometric, GA drawing, data sheet, blind list, Inspection test plan (ITP), etc.) in co-ordination with other departments.
• Responsible to receive and clarify a work request and develop or issue work orders including close reporting through CMMS system.
• Responsible to develop and issue a purchase requisition of material non-stock category or services maintenance and expected close communication with purchasing group to keep availability or delivery material and services.
• Responsible to develop material list requirement and issue material reservation of spare parts stock category and expected close communication with warehouse foreman to keep availability of spare parts.
• Identifies all materials, tools, equipment, and special preparations required for each job step. Ensures that materials are on-site prior to scheduling the job. Ensures that surplus and excess materials are returned to the proper materials handling personnel for eventual return to the Warehouse.
• Daily review of all released maintenance work orders, material reservations, committed materials and ensure bagging & tagging prior to scheduling the work.
• Prepare and maintain statistical maintenance and technical reports (including work completion history reports and material status) related to the routine and preventive maintenance activities.
• Ensure Annual planned maintenance is updated, tracked and reported on regular basis.
• Knowledgeable with international standards, petroleum / petrochemical plant materials and equipment.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned and requested.
• Compliance with the Company Policies, Procedures and Regulations

Educational qualification and skills required:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with specializing in Mechanical stream.

Total Minimum of 10 years of experience, out of which,

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in Plant Maintenance Scheduling and Planning within a large industrial organization, preferable in Petrochemical or Oil & gas industry.
• At least 3 years’ on-site experience in maintenance field, preferably in petrochemical, refinery or chemical plants.

Expertise required:

• Thorough knowledge of Plant Maintenance of equipment in Petrochemical or Oil & gas industry.
• Expertise knowledge of Primavera and Microsoft Project.
• Sound knowledge of CMMS and working knowledge in effective full life cycle planning of Preventive and shutdown planning.
• Expertise in planning and scheduling.
• Ability to operate the company planning software Primavera Enterprise version (P6)
• Networking and influencing skills, ability to manage change and deal with ambiguity.
• Fluent English and Solid reporting skills a must.
• Ability and commitment to perform against fixed deadlines
• Self-motivated and Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to identify about EHS requirements.
• Computer Skills: Expert in Primavera, Microsoft Project
• Knowledge in CMMS (Oracle / SAP / Maximo) Expertise in Word, Excel, Power point and Access.

Skills

• Thorough knowledge of Plant Maintenance of equipment in Petrochemical or Oil & gas industry.
• Expertise knowledge of Primavera and Microsoft Project.
• Sound knowledge of CMMS and working knowledge in effective full life cycle planning of Preventive and shutdown planning.
• Expertise in planning and scheduling.
• Ability to operate the company planning software Primavera Enterprise version (P6)
• Networking and influencing skills, ability to manage change and deal with ambiguity.
• Fluent English and Solid reporting skills a must.
• Ability and commitment to perform against fixed deadlines
• Self-motivated and Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to identify about EHS requirements.
• Computer Skills: Expert in Primavera, Microsoft Project
• Knowledge in CMMS (Oracle / SAP / Maximo) Expertise in Word, Excel, Power point and Access.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract