Planner (Electrical)

Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company; Port Sulphur (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company, seeks a seasoned Maintenance Planning professional to optimize maintenance plans and manage data within SAP PM. You will standardize processes across facilities, develop work packages, and coordinate with SMEs to ensure accurate asset hierarchies and BOM data.

The role requires 10+ years in maintenance planning in heavy industries, strong Excel skills, and the ability to drive continuous improvement across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of maintenance planning experience in LNG, oil & gas, petrochemical, refining, power generation, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Strong maintenance planning experience within assigned discipline.
• Hands-on experience with SAP PM.
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance programs, maintenance workflows, and equipment strategies.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including data manipulation, filtering, lookup functions, and large dataset management.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience developing or reviewing: Maintenance Plans, Task Lists, Functional Locations, Equipment Records, Bills of Material (BOMs).

Responsibilities

• Review and optimize maintenance plans, job plans, and task lists within SAP PM.
• Validate preventive maintenance requirements based on OEM recommendations, maintenance strategies, and operational experience.
• Support maintenance planning standardization across facilities and systems.
• Develop and improve work packages, labor estimates, durations, sequencing, and resource requirements.
• Participate in maintenance strategy and PM optimization workshops.
• Validate equipment records, functional locations, and parent-child relationships.
• Review equipment criticality, maintainable asset boundaries, and system relationships.
• Review and validate spare parts lists, SPIR/SPIL documentation, and OEM recommendations.
• Perform data review, cleansing, validation, and manipulation using Excel and SAP.
• Track action items, progress updates, and KPI reporting.

Skills

Maintenance planning

SAP PM

MS Excel

Data validation

Cross-functional coordination

Project management

Technical problem solving

Education

Engineering Degree

Tools

SAP PM/MM

Winshuttle

Job description

Job Description & Skill Requirement:

Maintenance Planning & Execution Support

• Review and optimize maintenance plans, job plans, and task lists within SAP PM
• Validate preventive maintenance requirements based on OEM recommendations, maintenance strategies, and operational experience
• Support maintenance planning standardization across facilities and systems
• Develop and improve work packages, labor estimates, durations, sequencing, and resource requirements
• Participate in maintenance strategy and PM optimization workshops.

Key Responsibilities

Job Description & Skill Requirement:

Maintenance Planning & Execution Support

• Review and optimize maintenance plans, job plans, and task lists within SAP PM
• Validate preventive maintenance requirements based on OEM recommendations, maintenance strategies, and operational experience
• Support maintenance planning standardization across facilities and systems
• Develop and improve work packages, labor estimates, durations, sequencing, and resource requirements
• Participate in maintenance strategy and PM optimization workshops.

Asset Register & Equipment Hierarchy Support

• Validate equipment records, functional locations, and parent-child relationships
• Support alignment of equipment hierarchy structures to VG standards and ISO 14224
• Review equipment criticality, maintainable asset boundaries, and system relationships
• Assist with field verification and validation of equipment and associated data
• Support cleansing and consolidation of equipment and tag data

Bills of Material (BOM) & Spare Parts Support

• Review and validate spare parts lists, SPIR/SPIL documentation, and OEM recommendations
• Support BOM development and optimization for maintainable assets
• Identify interchangeable, repairable, and common spare opportunities
• Assist with material master mapping and spare part standardization
• Support workshops and reviews with maintenance and technical SMEs

Data Management & CMMS Support

• Perform data review, cleansing, validation, and manipulation using Excel and SAP
• Support bulk data updates and load sheet validation activities
• Track action items, progress updates, and KPI reporting
• Ensure maintenance data complies with VG master data standards and governance requirements

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of maintenance planning experience in LNG, oil & gas, petrochemical, refining, power generation, or heavy industrial facilities
• Strong maintenance planning experience within assigned discipline.
• Hands-on experience with SAP PM
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance programs, maintenance workflows, and equipment strategies
• Experience developing or reviewing:
• Maintenance Plans
• Task Lists
• Functional Locations
• Equipment Records
• Bills of Material (BOMs)
• Experience reviewing OEM documentation, IOM manuals, and spare parts data
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including data manipulation, filtering, lookup functions, and large dataset management
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning best practices and maintainable asset structures
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple priorities

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting CMMS optimization or maintenance data improvement initiatives

• Knowledge of ISO 14224 equipment hierarchy principles
• Experience supporting commissioning, startup, or project turnover activities
• Familiarity with maintenance reliability concepts and criticality assessments
• Experience with bulk data load tools such as Winshuttle

Core Competencies

• Maintenance Planning
• SAP PM/MM
• Equipment & Asset Hierarchies
• Preventive Maintenance Optimization
• BOM & Spare Parts Management
• Data Quality & Validation
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Technical Problem Solving
• Continuous Improvement

Physical & Work Environment

Site-based with occasional field visits as required

• Ability to participate in field walkdowns and equipment validation activities
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced project and operations environment

Qualification

• 4-years Engineering Degree