I&C Planner

Katalyst CRO; Port Sulphur (LA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Katalyst CRO in Port Sulphur, LA is seeking an experienced Maintenance Planning professional to optimize SAP PM workflows and support asset data management for complex facilities. You will review maintenance plans, standardize planning, and work with cross-disciplinary teams to improve efficiency and reliability.

Responsibilities include planning optimization, BOM/spare parts review, data cleansing, and KPI reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years in maintenance planning for heavy industrial facilities.
• Hands-on experience with SAP PM.
• Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and asset strategies.
• Experience developing/reviewing maintenance plans, task lists, locations, BOMs.
• Experience reviewing OEM docs, IOM manuals, and spare parts data.
• Advanced Excel skills for data manipulation and large datasets.
• Ability to coordinate 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, 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.
• 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.
• Review and validate spare parts lists, SPIR/SPIL documentation, and OEM recommendations.
• Assist with BOM development and optimization for maintainable assets.
• Coordinate reviews with maintenance teams and technical SMEs.
• Perform data review, cleansing, validation, and manipulation using Excel and SAP.
• Track action items, progress updates, and KPI reporting.

Skills

Maintenance Planning

Cross-Functional Coordination

Technical Problem Solving

Continuous Improvement

Data Validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

SAP PM

Microsoft Excel

Winshuttle

SAP MM

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

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.