Maintenance Planner Scheduler II

Danos, LLC; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Danos, LLC is seeking a Maintenance Planner to oversee planning and scheduling of all maintenance activities at our Midland, TX site. The role emphasizes SHE, work planning, estimates, procurement practices, and contractor interfaces to optimize equipment readiness and reliability.

The successful candidate will develop job packs, lead look-ahead schedules, and coordinate with operations, procurement, and field teams to ensure timely, within-budget execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience in planning and scheduling maintenance work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for management.
• Ability to lead Work Team meetings and drive action items and cost plans.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite and maintenance planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule Routine Maintenance work and Turnarounds.
• Develop schedules, cost estimates, and equipment plans with cross-functional teams.
• Identify critical paths and allocate resources across disciplines.
• Educate field personnel on look-ahead schedules and progress tracking.
• Assist with procurement strategy and vendor coordination.
• Resolve scheduling issues and monitor contingencies and changes.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Strong communication

Leadership

Adaptability

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Open Ticket/Open Invoice

Job description

Overview

To be responsible for the planning and scheduling of all Maintenance activities. Should have good understanding of safety, health, and environmental requirements (SHE), work selection criteria, work planning, norms estimating, procurement practices, business practices and controls, contractor interface awareness, development of job packs, etc. Skilled in scheduling work tasks to ensure efficient resource utilization, excellent coordination between operations (equipment readiness / permitting), material availability, construction equipment support, and labor crew (skills) composition and assignment.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate SAFETY is the top priority
• Participate in planning with Core/Work Teams
• Plan and schedule any Routine Maintenance work required
• Work with Planner in developing schedule, cost estimates and equipment planning for Routine work to be accomplished during the Turnaround window
• Plan complex job and develop resource plan with Scheduler, Execution lead, and Operations across all disciplines. Able to identify and monitor critical and sub-critical paths for major events
• Apply advanced functions of Planning & Estimating Tools, as applicable to the position. Able to educate field execution personnel on look-ahead schedules, and help ensure timely work progression
• Provide input to maintenance work Contracting/Procurement strategy and steward to that plan
• Resolve scheduling issues, including: Negative Float, Out-of-sequence updates, resource overloads, scope change, progress validation, etc.
• Develop a complete job plan with materials, resources and timeline.
• Provide input into material of construction selection and management.
• Plan, estimate, track and schedule Field Order Changes (FCO's).
• Apply planning logic, such as, lead, lag, critical path and milestones.
• Adequately assess work contingencies with schedule impact, lead coordination activity between teams should contingencies arise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering within an applicable discipline, appropriate certification(s) within discipline, or equivalent professional experience

• Previous experience in a closely related position
• Good verbal and written communication skills; ability to clearly and concisely convey recommendations to management
• Ability to adapt to tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and frequent changes in priorities
• Demonstrates good leadership skills in Work Team meetings to remove barriers and steward action items and cost profile to work plan and cost estimates
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of software programs
• Proficient in Open Ticket/Open Invoice

• Must meet all conditional job offer requirements