Maintenance Planner

Wood; Louisiana; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful projects

Flexible working arrangements onsite

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits package

Professional development

Job summary

Wood is seeking a Maintenance Planner to support CMMS optimization and data improvement across operating assets and project transitions in Plaquemine, LA. You will partner with CMMS Specialists, Reliability Engineers, Operations and Engineering to enhance maintenance planning data, PM programs, BOMs, and SAP PM master data for safe, reliable operations.

The role requires extensive experience in LNG/oil & gas maintenance planning, SAP PM proficiency, and strong data accuracy skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of maintenance planning experience in LNG, oil & gas, petrochemical, refining, power generation, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Strong maintenance planning experience within 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;Task Lists;Functional Locations;Equipment Records;Bills of Material (BOMs)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including data manipulation, filtering, lookup functions, and large dataset management

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
• Support maintenance planning standardization across facilities and systems
• Develop and improve work packages, labor estimates, durations, sequencing, and resource requirements
• Participate in maintenance strategy and PM optimization workshops.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Cross-functional coordination

Excel data handling

Tools

SAP PM

Winshuttle

Job description

Wood is recruiting for a Maintenance Planner to join its Operations Americas business. This opportunity is onsite in Plaquemine, LA supporting global energy demand through innovative, modular LNG plant designs focused on efficiency, reliability, and lower capital cost.

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The Role

As the Maintenance Planner, you will be responsible for supporting CMMS optimization and maintenance data improvement initiatives across operating assets and project transitions. These roles will work closely with CMMS Specialists, Reliability Engineers, Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering teams to improve maintenance planning data, preventive maintenance programs, equipment hierarchies, and Bills of Material (BOMs) within SAP PM.

Discipline-focused planners are required in the following areas:

The planners will provide maintenance planning expertise and equipment knowledge to support data validation, maintenance strategy alignment, and standardization of maintenance master data for safe and reliable long-term operations.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood's Operations business delivers solutions to an ever-broadening range of clients across the energy and materials industries globally. We deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, brownfield engineering, asset optimization and management, supporting our clients through the asset lifecycle. We are focused on developing strategic relationships with our clients, providing solutions that deliver efficiency, integrity and reliability.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across Operations Americas sector
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs, offering onsite working
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle
• Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests
• Global connections with leading industry experts around the world who are shaping the standards of our profession

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
• Support maintenance planning standardization across facilities and systems
• Develop and improve work packages, labor estimates, durations, sequencing, and resource requirements
• Participate in maintenance strategy and PM optimization workshops.

Asset Register & Equipment Hierarchy Support

• Validate equipment records, functional locations, and parent-child relationships
• Support alignment of equipment hierarchy structures to client standards and ISO 14224
• Review equipment criticality, maintainable asset boundaries, and system relationships
• Assist with field verification and validation of equipment and associated data
• Support cleansing and consolidation of 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 opportunities
• Assist with material master mapping and spare part standardization
• Support workshops and reviews with maintenance 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 activities
• Track action items, progress updates, and KPI reporting
• Ensure maintenance data complies with client master data standards and governance requirements

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of maintenance planning experience in LNG, oil & gas, petrochemical, refining, power generation, or heavy industrial facilities
• Strong maintenance planning experience within 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
• Task Lists
• Functional Locations
• 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 work 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
• Preventive Maintenance Optimization
• BOM & Spare Parts Management
• Data Quality & Validation
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Technical Problem Solving

Physical & Work Environment

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