Maintenance Planner: Reliability & Outage Planning

US15 Air Products LLC; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance day one

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

FSAs

Life Insurance

EAP

Job summary

Air Products’ La Porte area Texas sites seek a Maintenance Planner to lead planning, scheduling, and cost control for maintenance activities. The role emphasizes safety, efficient work execution, and collaboration with operations and contractors in a 24/7 plant environment.

You will help estimate labor and material needs, track PM compliance, prioritize tasks by criticality, and coordinate with the North American PM team to assign work accurately.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent with a minimum of 5 years maintenance planning and mechanical craft experience in a chemical plant or refinery environment required.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and teamwork-oriented skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and strong computer skills (Microsoft Office, especially Excel).
• Must be able to climb ladders and steps, get on scaffolding and wear PPE such as full body harness.
• Able to lift 50 lbs. Elevated work required.

Responsibilities

• Tracking and providing updates on progress of day-to-day jobs on the daily maintenance schedule and will report status updates to both Maintenance Supervisor and Superintendent.
• Assist in leading and participating in weekly/monthly maintenance planning and backlog meetings with operations teams.
• Provide current updates on projected delivery times of parts on order to aid in the scheduling process.
• Assist in tracking PM compliance and drive the team to meet compliance goals of 100%.
• Work with the North American PM coordination team to ensure PMs are assigned appropriately to our equipment or update accordingly.
• Assist on PM prioritization based on operation needs, type of equipment and task criticality.
• Assist and lead the planning and execution of smaller plant outages that fall outside of the North American Turn Around Team.
• The Maintenance Planner is expected to provide leadership and oversee contractors by job walkdowns, follow up through the process and verify the work is completed safely and with quality against expectation.
• Support the Maintenance Supervisor and Superintendent in the creation and implementation of standardized maintenance work practices and procedures.
• Help coach the teams on a consistent basis to adhere to and improve these work processes.
• Interface with Materials Management and warehousing to create components/parts requisitions, update spares information as needed, create parts list for job plans and stage purchased materials.
• Work along with the Maintenance Administrative Assistant to keep the maintenance documentation evergreen, update procedures, pull SAP lookaheads and keep track of purchase orders or other SAP transactions.
• Assist in estimating projected spend/cost estimates for forecasting purposes.
• Carry out onsite assessments of the resources and equipment necessary to enable the maintenance team to successfully execute the various maintenance activities.
• Champion the management of change (MOC) process and provide accurate and concise information as required to the operations team.
• Analyze equipment history to improve reliability and reduce downtime.

Skills

After-hours availability

Reading engineering drawings

Multitasking

Prioritization

Safety-conscious

Decision making

Education

High school diploma or equivalent; 5+ years maintenance planning experience in chemical plant/refinery

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Air Products’ La Porte area Texas sites seek a Maintenance Planner to lead planning, scheduling, and cost control for maintenance activities. The role emphasizes safety, efficient work execution, and collaboration with operations and contractors in a 24/7 plant environment.

You will help estimate labor and material needs, track PM compliance, prioritize tasks by criticality, and coordinate with the North American PM team to assign work accurately.