Electrical Planner - Maintenance

KUWAIT STEEL; Ahmadi; On-site; KWD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

KUWAIT STEEL is seeking an Electrical Maintenance Planner to oversee maintenance schedules for electrical systems. Candidates should have at least 7 years of relevant industry experience and be proficient in SAP.

The role involves planning preventive and corrective maintenance, coordinating with departments to minimize downtime, and ensuring compliance with maintenance standards. This is an opportunity for individuals skilled in both technical and supervisory capacities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years relevant experience in rolling mills or heavy industry operations.
• Minimum 4 years in electrical/electronic maintenance planning.
• Minimum 2 years in a supervisory role.

Responsibilities

• Plan maintenance schedules for electrical systems.
• Authorize routine maintenance activities and control documentation.
• Track maintenance records and verify compliance.

Skills

Electrical systems knowledge

SAP PM and MM Modules

Preventive maintenance scheduling

Technical reporting

Communication skills

Education

Diploma with 7 years of experience

Bachelor's Degree with 5 years of experience

Tools

SAP or CMMS

Job description

Job Description

-Plan preventive, predictive, breakdown, condition-based, shutdown, and corrective maintenance schedules for electrical and electronic systems.

-Prepare work orders, spare parts requests, and electrical documentation in coordination with operations and engineering teams.

-Coordinate with production, maintenance, and safety departments to align electrical maintenance plans with operational requirements and minimize downtime.

-Lead the planning, scheduling, and resource coordination of equipment improvement, modification, and redesign activities, including minor projects and reliability initiatives, ensuring work readiness, material availability, manpower allocation, and integration with maintenance and production plans.

-Support maintenance activities across different plants or areas, including planning, coordination, and scheduling of centralized or shared-service initiatives for standardized electrical equipment, promoting best practices, technical consistency, and efficient use of internal resources.

-Authorize routine maintenance activities and control shift-level documentation to ensure accuracy and compliance.

-Guide technicians in proper documentation, SAP entry, reporting, and safe use of electrical systems.

-Ensure accurate and timely maintenance planning data in SAP, including work orders, task lists, materials, and maintenance plans. Maintain data integrity to support reliable scheduling, backlog management, and continuous optimization of preventive maintenance plans.

-Track electrical maintenance records, test reports, and completed work orders to verify compliance with standards and maintenance KPIs.

-Review material requests, consumption, and feedback reports to ensure effective maintenance planning.

-Prepare and update master data for all electrical equipment through SAP, ensuring data integrity and standardization.

-Prepare weekly, monthly, and annual electrical maintenance performance reports for review by department management.

-Report backlog status, planning performance, and highlight opportunities for process and cost improvement.

-Provide planning-based input to support maintenance cost analysis, resource allocation decisions, and continuous improvement initiatives, using SAP data and planning metrics to identify efficiency and optimization opportunities.

-Optimize maintenance resource utilization and cost efficiency through effective planning, balancing internal labor, contractors, materials, and equipment availability, and supporting cost control, budget adherence, and maintenance cost optimization initiatives.

-Prepare, release, and monitor purchase requisitions, service requests, job orders, and material entries through SAP (Materials Management module).

-Prepare technical evaluations for purchase of materials, spares, and electrical consumables as per company policy.

Preferred Experience

• Diploma: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience rolling mills or heavy industry operations with at least 4 years of electrical/electronic maintenance planning in rolling mills or similar and minimum of 2 years supervisory role.
• Bachelor’s Degree: Minimum 5 years of experience in stell industry or heavy industry operations with at least 2 years of electrical/electronic maintenance planning in rolling mills or similar and minimum of 2 years supervisory role.
• Practical exposure to weekly down-day planning, annual shutdown preparation, and coordination of spares, contractors, and services for electrical and automation maintenance.
• Prior hands-on use of SAP or CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) (advantage).
• Exposure to KPI tracking, energy monitoring, testing instruments, and automation systems.

Job-Specific Skills

• Working knowledge of electrical systems, PLC’s, drives, motors, and instrumentation.
• Ability to schedule and track preventive and corrective maintenance.
• Competence in work order systems, spare parts planning, and technical reporting.
• Familiarity with plant electrical safety standards, safety requirements and work permit systems.
• Ability to review and optimize schedules and resource utilization.
• Strong Knowledge of SAP PM and MM Modules.
• Strong adherence to Quality (IMS/ISO) & Plant Safety Standards, SOPs, risk prevention measures, and emergency procedures.
• Effective communication, coordination, basic problem-solving, and reporting skills for workshop and maintenance operations.