Maintenance Planner - Reliability & Safety Focus

Air Products; La Porte (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance – medical/dental/vision day

401(k) plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Flexible spending accounts

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Air Products seeks a Maintenance Planner at our La Porte, TX plant to optimize maintenance work orders, prioritize tasks, and drive safe, cost-effective execution. You will collaborate with Maintenance Supervisors, operations teams, and contractors to ensure timely, compliant execution of preventive maintenance and outages.

The role requires strong planning, multi-project coordination, and hands-on mechanical experience in a chemical plant environment.

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.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and teamwork-oriented skills; ability to interact with a diverse team.
• 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

• Track and provide updates on progress of day-to-day jobs on the daily maintenance schedule and report status to 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 scheduling.
• 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 equipment or update accordingly.
• Assist on PM prioritization based on operation needs, type of equipment and task criticality.
• Lead planning and execution of smaller plant outages outside of the North American Turn Around Team.
• Provide leadership and oversee contractors by job walkdowns and verify work completed safely and with quality.

Skills

SAP

Excel

P&ID reading

Multi-project mgmt

Safety mindset

Decision making

Job description

Air Products seeks a Maintenance Planner at our La Porte, TX plant to optimize maintenance work orders, prioritize tasks, and drive safe, cost-effective execution. You will collaborate with Maintenance Supervisors, operations teams, and contractors to ensure timely, compliant execution of preventive maintenance and outages.

The role requires strong planning, multi-project coordination, and hands-on mechanical experience in a chemical plant environment.