Maintenance Planning Specialist

TN United Kingdom; Wales; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Maintenance Planning Specialist to join their dynamic team in Northop. This role is crucial for supporting maintenance planning activities and ensuring operational efficiency in both onshore and offshore facilities. You will collaborate with various departments to develop shutdown schedules and coordinate maintenance activities, all while adhering to safety and quality standards. If you have a strong engineering background and a passion for optimizing maintenance processes, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking company that values innovation and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or relevant equivalent experience required.
• Extensive experience in planning and control of multi-disciplinary activities.

Responsibilities

• Support planned maintenance activities in accordance with HSE Policy.
• Coordinate with technical authority to optimize critical equipment maintenance.

Skills

Engineering degree

SAP

MS Project

Primavera

Maintenance engineering

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

SAP

MS Project

Primavera

MS Office

Job description

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Maintenance Planning Specialist, Northop

Client:

Petrofac

Location:

Northop, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Logistics

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

3ba6a3a01146

Job Views:

5

Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

Job Description:

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage, and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit, regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs and planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Job Title:

Maintenance Planning Specialist

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Maintenance Support Co-ordinator with the control and delivery of all relevant planned maintenance activities in accordance with Eni HSE Policy and Procedures to meet business targets, throughput, planning, reliability, and plant uptime.
• Support the Maintenance Support Co-ordinator, in synergy with the Technical Planning department, to ensure the Major and Asset integrity-related work and/or breakdown activities are prioritised, resourced, and planned appropriately to meet the integrated plan.
• Develop, in synergy with the Technical Planning Department, the shutdown schedules, incorporating approved business forecasts, field development projects, and maintenance strategies.
• Prepare plans for complex work, rotating equipment programs, and routine outages (train outages, maintenance campaign programs, and field outages).
• Support day-to-day effective and accurate planning (28-day and 90-day site plans) with Offshore and Onshore Planners and schedulers.
• Facilitate 90-day Day Planning meetings, rough-cut planning meetings, and weekly backlog and forward log review meetings when necessary.
• Coordinate with the technical authority to optimize critical equipment maintenance.
• Create & integrate district & functional plans for IAP.
• Prepare ISP planning Campaign and Satellites Maintenance Campaign.
• Maintain daily contact with offshore and onshore sites and other departments to ensure plans are tracked and reported, highlighting issues and offering solutions.
• Coordinate and support the execution of major and non-routine maintenance and improvement jobs on the operations site.
• Assist in preparing for minor plant shutdowns, including scope of work, spares, resources, and tools.
• Coordinate and support third-party business mobilisation and plans, collaborating with other departments.
• Support Integrated Asset Planning (IAP).

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

• Engineering degree or relevant equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with SAP, MS Project, Primavera.
• Knowledge of operational methods and daily activities of maintenance engineering supporting both onshore and offshore facilities.
• Extensive experience in planning and control of multi-disciplinary activities.
• Experience engaging with external vendors and resources.
• Understanding of contract management requirements.
• Previous experience in the upstream O&G industry with offshore and onshore projects.
• Proficiency in MS Office, SAP, MS Project, Primavera.
• Deep knowledge of maintenance & project planning.
• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and influencing skills.