Maintenance Strategy & CMMS Optimization Specialist

Sense; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sense is seeking a maintenance planning professional to optimize and manage SAP PM-based maintenance programs for industrial facilities. You will review strategies, develop plans, define job steps, and orchestrate workshops with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance and reliability.

The role emphasizes data quality, CMMS enhancements, and alignment with asset criticality, OEM guidance, and safety standards, offering strong collaboration across Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of SAP PM, maintenance planning, or reliability experience in industrial facilities.
• Hands-on experience developing maintenance plans, items, task lists, maintenance strategies, cycles, and packages.
• Ability to read P&IDs, OEM manuals, engineering drawings, maintenance procedures, and equipment datasheets.
• Experience analyzing existing maintenance strategies and CMMS builds and converting findings into practical improvements.
• Knowledge of preventive maintenance optimization, reliability-centered maintenance concepts, criticality, and regulatory maintenance requirements.
• Proficiency in project execution, teamwork, client relationship management, and technical workshop facilitation.
• Strong Excel, data validation, reconciliation, and reporting capability.

Responsibilities

• Review existing maintenance strategies, programs, maintenance plans, items, task lists, frequencies, cycles, call horizons, packages, and scheduling parameters.
• Analyze OEM manuals, maintenance procedures, engineering requirements, regulatory obligations, reliability studies, failure modes, criticality, and current site practices.
• Identify missing, duplicate, obsolete, conflicting, overly frequent, under-maintained, or non-value-adding maintenance content and recommend disposition.
• Develop and optimize maintenance plans, maintenance items, general and equipment task lists, strategies, packages, cycles, object assignments, and scheduling parameters.
• Define job steps, sequence, craft or skill requirements, labor hours, durations, tools, materials, permits, and approved safety references.
• Facilitate maintenance strategy review workshops with client Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Operations, HSE, and technical subject matter experts.
• Align maintenance strategies with asset criticality, operating context, OEM guidance, compliance requirements, and approved maintenance philosophy.
• Prepare SAP PM load templates, source traceability, approval logs, exception registers, and load-readiness reports.
• Perform completeness, consistency, format, cross-object, and referential-integrity validation across equipment, plans, items, and BOM/material linkages.
• Support pre-load validation, post-load verification, defect correction, approval, and final handover.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Workshop facilitation

Data validation

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or related

Tools

SAP PM

SAP S/4HANA PM

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Sense is seeking a maintenance planning professional to optimize and manage SAP PM-based maintenance programs for industrial facilities. You will review strategies, develop plans, define job steps, and orchestrate workshops with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance and reliability.

The role emphasizes data quality, CMMS enhancements, and alignment with asset criticality, OEM guidance, and safety standards, offering strong collaboration across Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance teams.