SAP PM & Maintenance Planning Specialist

Katalyst-Healthcares-; Lake Charles (LA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Katalyst-Healthcares- is seeking an experienced SAP PM and maintenance planning specialist to optimize strategies across industrial facilities. You will review plans, ensure data integrity in CMMS, and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

The role requires 5+ years in SAP PM and proven ability to develop maintenance items, task lists, and cycles; strong Excel and stakeholder facilitation; on-site work in Lake Charles, LA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in SAP PM, maintenance planning, maintenance build, or reliability within industrial facilities.
• Hands-on experience developing maintenance plans, maintenance 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 (RCM), asset criticality, and regulatory maintenance requirements.
• Strong project execution, teamwork, client relationship management, and technical workshop facilitation skills.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, data validation, reconciliation, and reporting capabilities.

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 appropriate actions.
• Develop and optimize maintenance plans, maintenance items, general and equipment task lists, strategies, packages, cycles, object assignments, and scheduling parameters.
• Define job steps, sequencing, craft or skill requirements, labor hours, durations, tools, materials, permits, and approved safety references.
• Facilitate maintenance strategy review workshops with 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.
• Validate completeness, consistency, formatting, cross-object relationships, and referential integrity across equipment, plans, items, task lists, and BOM/material linkages.
• Support pre-load validation, post-load verification, defect correction, approvals, and final handover.

Skills

Excel & data analysis

Project management

Stakeholder facilitation

Documentation & reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

SAP PM

CMMS

SAP S/4HANA PM

Mass-load tools

Microsoft Excel (advanced)

Job description

Katalyst-Healthcares- is seeking an experienced SAP PM and maintenance planning specialist to optimize strategies across industrial facilities. You will review plans, ensure data integrity in CMMS, and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

The role requires 5+ years in SAP PM and proven ability to develop maintenance items, task lists, and cycles; strong Excel and stakeholder facilitation; on-site work in Lake Charles, LA.