I&C Planner

Katalyst CRO; Port Sulphur (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Katalyst CRO is seeking an experienced Maintenance Planner to review and optimize maintenance plans across facilities, ensuring alignment with OEM recommendations and VG standards. The role focuses on SAP PM execution, data integrity, and cross-functional collaboration to improve maintenance workflows.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in maintenance planning within heavy industrial settings, a four-year engineering degree, and hands-on SAP PM experience to drive standardization and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of maintenance planning experience in heavy industrial facilities such as oil & gas, petrochemical, refining, or power generation.
• Four-year Engineering degree is required.
• Hands-on experience with SAP PM is required.
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance programs and equipment strategies.
• Experience developing or reviewing maintenance plans, task lists, BOMs, and associated data.
• Advanced Excel skills for data manipulation and large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Review and optimize maintenance plans, job plans, and task lists within SAP PM.
• Validate preventive maintenance requirements based on OEM recommendations and maintenance 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 preventive maintenance optimization workshops.
• Validate equipment records, functional locations, and parent-child relationships.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Cross-functional coordination

Technical problem solving

Data validation

Process improvement

Education

Four-year Engineering degree

Tools

SAP PM

Microsoft Excel

Winshuttle

Job description

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 hierarchies with VG standards and ISO 14224.
• Review equipment criticality, maintainable asset boundaries, and system relationships.
• Support field verification, equipment data validation, and equipment tag data cleansing.

BOM & Spare Parts Management:

• 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.
• Coordinate reviews with maintenance teams and technical SMEs.

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 & gas, petrochemical, refining, power generation, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Four-year Engineering degree.
• Hands-on experience with SAP PM.
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance programs, maintenance workflows, and equipment strategies.
• Experience developing or reviewing maintenance plans, task lists, functional locations, equipment records, and 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 coordinate across multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple priorities.

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.

Core Competencies:

• Maintenance Planning
• SAP PM/MM
• Equipment & Asset Hierarchies
• Preventive Maintenance Optimization
• BOM & Spare Parts Management
• Data Quality & Validation
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Technical Problem Solving
• Continuous Improvement

Physical & Work Environment:

• Site-based role with occasional field visits.
• Ability to participate in field walkdowns and equipment validation activities.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced project and operations environment.