Electrical Planner

Katalyst CRO; Port Sulphur (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will review SAP PM plans, validate maintenance requirements, standardize processes, and assist with BOMs and data governance, collaborating across facilities. The role also requires strong Excel skills and the ability to handle large data sets in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of maintenance planning experience in oil & gas, petrochemical, refining, power generation, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Hands-on SAP PM experience.
• Advanced Excel skills for data manipulation and large dataset handling.
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance programs, workflows, and asset strategies.
• Experience developing or reviewing maintenance plans, task lists, functional locations, equipment records, and BOMs.
• Experience reviewing OEM documentation, IOM manuals, and spare parts data.
• 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 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.
• Validate equipment records, functional locations, and parent–child relationships.
• Align equipment hierarchies with VG standards and ISO 14224; review system relationships.
• Review BOMs, SPIR/SPIL documentation, and OEM recommendations for parts.
• Assist with material master mapping and spare parts standardization.
• Perform data review, cleansing, validation, and manipulation using Excel and SAP; track progress and KPI reporting.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Data governance

Prioritization

Asset management

Tools

SAP PM

Excel

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.