Maintenance Planner

EMCOR Group, Inc.; New Orleans (LA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ardent Services, a maintenance planning specialist within the EMCOR Group, seeks a Maintenance Planner to review specifications, prepare time and cost estimates, and plan daily maintenance activities. You will plan workflows, coordinate with departments and subcontractors, and use MS Project, Primavera, and Excel to support scheduling and budgeting.

The role emphasizes maintaining schedules, resource planning, and timely communication to meet project deadlines on site in the New Orleans area.

Qualifications

• Must have valid TWIC card.
• Must be local to the area.
• Experience with maintenance planning and scheduling software.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule workflow for each department, operations, and subcontractors to meet deadlines.
• Identify resources, assign responsibilities, and set performance expectations.
• Use information gathering to analyze situations and support decisions.
• Coordinate with staff and cross-functional teams to ensure project goals.

Job description

About Us

We are among the premier providers of specialty electrical and instrumentation (E&I) services for the nation’s process industries. Our offerings include high-quality power, control, and process automation services, as well as panel fabrication, renewable energy, and energy retrofit solutions.

Job Summary

Ardent Services

Maintenance Planner reviews specifications, proposals, and other documentation to prepare time, cost, and labor estimates, planning/preparing bids, selecting vendors or subcontractors for daily maintenance activities. This position plans and schedules workflow for each department, operations, and subcontractors to meet scheduled deadlines. Maintenance Planners possess solid knowledge of, and experience with, planning and tracking software such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, Excel and others. On small sites the planner role may also include scheduling and estimating activities.

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Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Effectively plan what is to be achieved and involve all relevant staff members.
• Anticipate important or critical events, identifying resource requirements and assigning responsibility for specific work, including deadlines and performance expectations.
• Demonstrate the use of information-gathering techniques, analyzing situation and identifying implications in order to make correct decisions.
• Ensure that staff is aware they will be accountable for achieving the desired results through planned program evaluation and individual performance appraisal.
• Ensure that staff is provided with the necessary tools to succeed.
• Determine the need for material and capacity to address expected requirements, execute the resulting plans, and update planning and financial information to reflect the results.
• Plan the management function by defining goals and the tasks and resources needed to attain those goals.
• Plan a timetable of events and decide when and where certain events will occur.
• Control and check errors, taking any corrective action so that deviations from standards are minimized and stated goals of the organization are achieved in a desired manner.
• Effectively communicate the operational perspective in cross-functional meetings.
• Possess a full understanding of modern planning concepts and practices.
• Understand the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
• Be capable of defining an effective project plan.
• Define the project resources such as money, people, materials, and space, and the milestones and specific outcomes.
• Coordinate information with other functional staff.
• Establish reporting to determine labor and productivity performance statistics.

Qualifications

MUST HAVE VALID TWIC CARD

MUST BE LOCAL TO AREA

Equal Opportunity Employer

As a leading provider of mechanical and electrical construction, facilities services, and energy infrastructure, we offer employees a competitive salary and benefits package and we are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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