SAP PM Maintenance Planner & Reliability Specialist

Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company; Lake Charles (LA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sira Consulting in Lake Charles, LA seeks a seasoned Maintenance Planning Specialist to review and optimize maintenance strategies across client sites. You will analyze OEM manuals, regulatory requirements, and CMMS data to ensure complete, non-duplicative maintenance content and effective schedules.

The role requires leading workshops with cross-functional teams, defining job steps, labor hours, tools, permits, and safety references, and aligning plans with asset criticality and compliance.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of SAP PM, maintenance planning, maintenance build, or reliability experience in industrial facilities.
• Hands-on experience developing maintenance plans, items, task lists, maintenance strategies, cycles, and packages.
• Ability to read and interpret 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, plans, items, task lists, and scheduling parameters.
• Analyze manuals, procedures, regulatory obligations, reliability studies, and current site practices.
• Identify missing, duplicate, obsolete, or non-value-adding content and recommend disposition.
• Develop and optimize maintenance plans, items, task lists, strategies, cycles, and scheduling parameters.
• Define job steps, sequence, labor hours, durations, tools, materials, permits, and safety references.
• Facilitate strategy review workshops with client teams and SMEs.
• Align strategies with asset criticality, operating context, OEM guidance, and compliance.
• Prepare SAP PM load templates, source traceability, logs, and load-readiness reports.
• Perform completeness, consistency, and referential-integrity validation across equipment, plans, items, and BOMs.
• Support pre-load validation, post-load verification, defect correction, approval, and final handover.

Skills

SAP PM

Maintenance planning

Reliability engineering

P&IDs reading

Data analysis

Excel

Workshop facilitation

Project coordination

Team collaboration

Client relationship management

Education

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

Tools

SAP S/4HANA PM

Mass-load tools

CMMS

Job description

Sira Consulting in Lake Charles, LA seeks a seasoned Maintenance Planning Specialist to review and optimize maintenance strategies across client sites. You will analyze OEM manuals, regulatory requirements, and CMMS data to ensure complete, non-duplicative maintenance content and effective schedules.

The role requires leading workshops with cross-functional teams, defining job steps, labor hours, tools, permits, and safety references, and aligning plans with asset criticality and compliance.