Maintenance Build Specialist (Oil & Gas)

Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company; Lake Charles (LA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sira Consulting in Lake Charles, LA seeks a seasoned Maintenance Planning Specialist to review and optimize maintenance strategies across client sites. You will analyze OEM manuals, regulatory requirements, and CMMS data to ensure complete, non-duplicative maintenance content and effective schedules.

The role requires leading workshops with cross-functional teams, defining job steps, labor hours, tools, permits, and safety references, and aligning plans with asset criticality and compliance.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of SAP PM, maintenance planning, maintenance build, or reliability experience in industrial facilities.
• Hands-on experience developing maintenance plans, items, task lists, maintenance strategies, cycles, and packages.
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, OEM manuals, engineering drawings, maintenance procedures, and equipment datasheets.
• Experience analyzing existing maintenance strategies and CMMS builds and converting findings into practical improvements.
• Knowledge of preventive maintenance optimization, reliability-centered maintenance concepts, criticality, and regulatory maintenance requirements.
• Proficiency in project execution, teamwork, client relationship management, and technical workshop facilitation.
• Strong Excel, data validation, reconciliation, and reporting capability.

Responsibilities

• Review existing maintenance strategies, programs, plans, items, task lists, and scheduling parameters.
• Analyze manuals, procedures, regulatory obligations, reliability studies, and current site practices.
• Identify missing, duplicate, obsolete, or non-value-adding content and recommend disposition.
• Develop and optimize maintenance plans, items, task lists, strategies, cycles, and scheduling parameters.
• Define job steps, sequence, labor hours, durations, tools, materials, permits, and safety references.
• Facilitate strategy review workshops with client teams and SMEs.
• Align strategies with asset criticality, operating context, OEM guidance, and compliance.
• Prepare SAP PM load templates, source traceability, logs, and load-readiness reports.
• Perform completeness, consistency, and referential-integrity validation across equipment, plans, items, and BOMs.
• Support pre-load validation, post-load verification, defect correction, approval, and final handover.

Skills

SAP PM

Maintenance planning

Reliability engineering

P&IDs reading

Data analysis

Excel

Workshop facilitation

Project coordination

Team collaboration

Client relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or related

Tools

SAP S/4HANA PM

Mass-load tools

CMMS

Job description

• Review existing maintenance strategies, programs, maintenance plans, items, task lists, frequencies, cycles, call horizons, packages, and scheduling parameters.
• Analyze OEM manuals, maintenance procedures, engineering requirements, regulatory obligations, reliability studies, failure modes, criticality, and current site practices.
• Identify missing, duplicate, obsolete, conflicting, overly frequent, under-maintained, or non-value-adding maintenance content and recommend disposition.
• Develop and optimize maintenance plans, maintenance items, general and equipment task lists, strategies, packages, cycles, object assignments, and scheduling parameters.
• Define job steps, sequence, craft or skill requirements, labor hours, durations, tools, materials, permits, and approved safety references.
• Facilitate maintenance strategy review workshops with client Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Operations, HSE, and technical subject matter experts.
• Align maintenance strategies with asset criticality, operating context, OEM guidance, compliance requirements, and approved maintenance philosophy.
• Prepare SAP PM load templates, source traceability, approval logs, exception registers, and load-readiness reports.
• Perform completeness, consistency, format, cross-object, and referential-integrity validation across equipment, plans, items, task lists, and BOM/material linkages.
• Support pre-load validation, post-load verification, defect correction, approval, and final handover.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of SAP PM, maintenance planning, maintenance build, or reliability experience in industrial facilities.
• Hands-on experience developing maintenance plans, items, task lists, maintenance strategies, cycles, and packages.
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, OEM manuals, engineering drawings, maintenance procedures, and equipment datasheets.
• Experience analyzing existing maintenance strategies and CMMS builds and converting findings into practical improvements.
• Knowledge of preventive maintenance optimization, reliability-centered maintenance concepts, criticality, and regulatory maintenance requirements.
• Proficiency in project execution, teamwork, client relationship management, and technical workshop facilitation.
• Strong Excel, data validation, reconciliation, and reporting capability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA PM and mass-load tools.
• Experience in LNG, oil and gas, petrochemical, refinery, process, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Familiarity with RCM, PM optimization, failure-mode analysis, job-plan development, and maintenance work management.
• Experience supporting greenfield or brownfield CMMS implementation, migration, or improvement programs.
• Strong proficiency in project management, planning, progress tracking, risk management, and delivery governance.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent client relationship management, stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, and communication skills.
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, OEM manuals, engineering drawings, equipment datasheets, equipment lists, and vendor documentation.
• Ability to analyze existing maintenance strategies, CMMS structures, data quality, and build maturity, and recommend practical improvements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and Microsoft Excel skills.

Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or a related discipline