Electrical Planner

Katalyst-Healthcares-; Port Sulphur (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Katalyst-Healthcare seeks an experienced Electrical Planner in Port Sulphur, LA to support maintenance planning, asset data management, BOM optimization, and CMMS activities in an industrial setting.

Responsibilities include reviewing SAP PM maintenance plans, validating preventive maintenance with OEM guidance, and standardizing planning across facilities. Strong Excel and SAP PM skills are required; collaboration across multidisciplinary teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of maintenance planning experience in heavy industrial facilities (oil & gas, petrochemical, refining, power).
• Hands-on experience with SAP PM and maintenance workflows.
• Advanced Excel skills for large datasets and data manipulation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Review and optimize maintenance plans, job plans, and task lists within SAP PM.
• Validate preventive maintenance requirements based on OEM recommendations and strategies.
• Standardize maintenance planning across facilities and systems.
• Develop and improve work packages, labor estimates, durations, sequencing, and resource requirements.
• Participate in maintenance strategy and optimization workshops.
• Validate equipment records, functional locations, and parent-child relationships.
• Review BOMs and spare parts data; support BOM development and optimization.
• Perform data cleansing, validation, and bulk updates in Excel and SAP; track KPI progress.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Excel data

Project coordination

Collaboration

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Planner to support maintenance planning, asset data management, spare parts optimization, and CMMS activities within an industrial environment.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance Planning & Execution Support

• Review and optimize maintenance plans, job plans, and task lists within SAP PM.
• Validate preventive maintenance requirements based on OEM recommendations, maintenance strategies, and operational experience.
• Standardize maintenance planning across facilities and systems.
• Develop and improve work packages, labor estimates, durations, sequencing, and resource requirements.
• Participate in maintenance strategy and preventive maintenance optimization workshops.

Asset Register & Equipment Hierarchy Support

• Validate equipment records, functional locations, and parent-child relationships.
• Align equipment hierarchy structures with VG standards and ISO 14224.
• Review equipment criticality, maintainable asset boundaries, and system relationships.
• Support field verification and validation of equipment and associated data.
• Cleanse and consolidate equipment and tag data.

Bills of Material (BOM) & Spare Parts Support

• Review and validate spare parts lists, SPIR/SPIL documentation, and OEM recommendations.
• Support BOM development and optimization for maintainable assets.
• Identify interchangeable, repairable, and common spare parts opportunities.
• Assist with material master mapping and spare parts standardization.
• Participate in workshops and reviews with maintenance and technical subject matter experts.

Data Management & CMMS Support

• Perform data review, cleansing, validation, and manipulation using Excel and SAP.
• Support bulk data updates and load-sheet validation.
• Track action items, progress updates, and KPI reporting.
• Ensure maintenance data complies with VG master data standards and governance requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of maintenance planning experience in Client, oil and gas, petrochemical, refining, power generation, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Strong maintenance planning experience within the assigned discipline.
• Hands-on experience with SAP PM .
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance programs, maintenance workflows, and equipment strategies.
• Experience developing or reviewing:
  • Maintenance plans and task lists.
  • Functional locations and equipment records.
  • Bills of Material (BOMs).
• Experience reviewing OEM documentation, IOM manuals, and spare parts data.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data manipulation, filtering, lookup functions, and large dataset management.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning best practices and maintainable asset structures.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting CMMS optimization or maintenance data improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of ISO 14224 equipment hierarchy principles.
• Experience supporting commissioning, startup, or project turnover activities.
• Familiarity with maintenance reliability concepts and criticality assessments.
• Experience with bulk data load tools such as Winshuttle.