Senior Planner

Job description / Role

- Receives and process routine maintenance or SD / TA work requests /notifications to work orders
- Perform site surveys and identification of specialized services required to execute works
- Determines, prepare, and ensure resources requirements and availability (manpower, equipment, tools, and lifting equipment) and works sequences for maintenance jobs
- Liaise with related Departments supervisors and various levels for scheduling and work sequence
- Participates in regular Planning & Operation schedule meetings and produce schedule reports
- Monitors and coordinate work executors compliance to maintenance or SD / TA plans and schedules
- Ensures compliance to all relevant safety, health and environmental procedures in the section in order to promote a healthy and safe work environment
- Ensures materials and resources availability for planned Maintenance or SD / TA Jobs
- Ensures compliance of Work Executors to set Quality Assurance and Control system
- Review the maintenance backlog / schedule compliance, and recommend solutions to catch-up for delays, balance workload, and optimize resources utilization

Requirements

Education:
- Technical Diploma Certificate in Electrical/ Instrument Engineering or Equivalent. University degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent will be advantage

Technical Knowledge:
- 7 years experience in Oil & Gas Industry with a minimum of 4 years in maintenance planning
- Good experience in planning, scheduling of routine maintenance & shutdown turnaround related jobs
- Sound judgment in technical matters with good skills in engineering field materials specifications and international standards
- Familiar with budgeting and cost control
- Good knowledge in Quality Assurance, Quality Control and HSE plans
- Excellent knowledge & skills in Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), MS project & MS applications. Knowledge in Primavera and CAD will be advantage
- Possess analytical thinking in data analysis

About the Company

Orpic is one of Oman’s largest and most rapidly growing businesses in the Middle East oil industry. Orpic’s refineries in Suhar and Muscat, as well as the aromatics and polypropylene production plants in Suhar, provide fuel, chemicals, plastics and other petroleum products, to Oman and the world.

Owned by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman and Oman Oil Company SAOC, Orpic’s impressive integration of refinery and plant operations coupled with its ambitious growth plans, has cemented its position as one of the industry’s most forward-thinking companies. The company currently recruits around 2,600 employees who work towards the common goal of an integrated Omani refining and petrochemicals business expected to increase to 3,000 by 2020.

Orpic is committed to operating safely and reliably, while paying due care to the environment and the communities within which it operates. The company strongly believes in serving Oman with pride.