Outage Planner/ Scheduler

Outage Planner

Location: Corpus Christi, TX

Schedule: Monday through Friday, potential for weekends (40-hour work week with OT)

Openings: 1

Interview Process: 2 rounds

Description:

• Reports to the Overhaul Manager
• Manages all work request notifications from the areas to which he/she is assigned.
• Ensures all maintenance work orders are coded correctly and work scope defined.
• Ensures all planned outage/overhaul work orders are coded correctly and work scope defined.
• Estimates jobs showing sequence of steps, the number of tradespersons and required labor hours for each step. Lists determinable materials and any special tools or equipment needed.
• Reviews with engineering those work orders requiring engineering design.
• Coordinates and plans work with other support crafts or business units.
• Examines jobs to be done, performs job walk-downs, and determines best way to accomplish the work.
• Consults with requester or maintenance foreman/supervisor when necessary.
• Consults with external departments or maintenance foreman/supervisor when necessary.
• Gathers information from external departments and adds information to the planned outage/overhaul schedule and job scopes.
• Develop contractor work packages for planned outages/overhauls and communicate with contractor services managers.
• Develop and update Planned Outage/Overhaul schedule utilizing scheduling tool as needed.
• Consult with Project Managers and ensure SOW and detailed planning is ready to be scheduled "RTS".
• Reviews equipment reports, communicates defects of equipment by writing notifications for review in the plant meetings.
• Obtains blueprints, drawings, instructional manuals and special procedures, as needed, from files or other sources.
• Makes any additional sketches, diagrams, etc., necessary to clarify the intent of the work order.
• Identifies and obtains material, parts, and services through the SAP component reservations and purchase requisitions process.
• Ensures the safety needs are given a top priority in work planning.
• Maintains work order backlog files waiting for scheduling based on priority.
• Provide work order packages to assist in work execution.
• Manages preventive maintenance plans.
• Attends PDM and NDE meetings and initiates notifications for defects noted in reports.
• Follows up to ensure work orders are completed or closed at the proper time.
• Maintains close contact with the other planners to ensure coordination of complex multi-skill field and shop jobs.
• Participate in weekly meetings with the operations supervisors and the maintenance supervisors concerned with the areas for which he/she is responsible.
• Develops a file of standard work orders (plans, packages) for regularly recurring repair jobs, based on historical experience, to simplify and refine the planning process.
• Assists maintenance and operations management in periodically providing reports, analysis of equipment, labor, cost, and history.
• Make recommendations for system improvement.
• Maintains necessary records and files and prepares and distributes meaningful and accurate control reports to Maintenance, Operations, and leadership.
• Works weekends during planned outage and Overhauls as needed to update schedule and assist Overhaul Manager with outage related activities.
• Conducts planned outage/overhaul development meetings as outlined in the Overhaul Services SOP.
• Performs other tasks and special assignments as requested by the Overhaul Manager.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Electrical, Instrument & Controls, Mechanical or Welding trade background necessary
• Mechanical, Refining, and/or Welding trade background necessary
• Have adequate trade knowledge depth to estimate job labor hours, materials or services.
• Should have good oral/written communication skills.
• Good administrative and mathematical skills with willingness to handle paperwork
• Have good planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to understand what constitutes good instructions
• Able to read blueprints, electrical drawings, manuals and shop drawings; and the ability to generate rough sketches as needed.
• Ability to develop multiple job plans and to multi-task.
• Orientation and commitment to excellence and customer service.
• Style and capability commanding respect within both maintenance and operating organizations.
• Basic computer skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, ppt).

Preferred Qualifications

• Computer skills in SAP PM. Familiar with Primavera and/or PaSta planning and scheduling tool.
• SAP PM Administrative experience (taxonomy records, failure codes, PM strategies)
• Experience planning and/or scheduling experience in the power generation industry
• General understanding of reliability programs such RCM, FMEA, CBM, PdM
• Electrical, Instrument and Controls, Mechanical or Welding trade background experience as a Journeyman in Power Generation.

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