Lead Maintenance Planner

Job description / Role

Overview

Aramco energizes the world economy. Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer. With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades of experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

We are seeking a Lead Maintenance Planner to join Southern Area Power Operations Department.

The Southern Area Power Operations Department is responsible for delivering electrical energy to customers in the safest, most reliable and economical manner through a competent workforce committed to excellence and customer satisfaction.

Your primary role is to plan, estimate and schedule maintenance work in an Industrial Maintenance Division and assist the senior Maintenance Planner in planning, estimating and scheduling more jobs. You will utilize corporate maintenance computer programs and databases such as SAP to provide information in a timely and efficient manner. You will coordinate stepped work within the same organization (different work centers) and analyze and prepare daily/weekly schedules.

Key Responsibilities

You will be required to perform the following:

• Process work orders. Visit job sites when necessary. Utilize knowledge of craft skills and knowledge of the equipment involved, and place job steps in the proper sequence.
• Identify all materials, tools, equipment, and special preparations required for each job step.
• Provide the foremen with a completed package at minimum cost. Ensure that materials are received prior to scheduling the job. Ensure that surplus and excess materials are returned to the proper materials handling personnel for eventual return to the storehouse.
• Arrange for and schedule support service equipment to coincide with the maintenance order scheduling. Provide maintenance performance monitoring data for your assigned area or unit. Prepare Whole Job Standards and review the log of existing Whole Job Standards for potential application.
• Participate in the Weekly/Schedule Coordination Meeting and present the Weekly Schedule of workable maintenance jobs from the backlog. Ensure which jobs will be worked in the upcoming week.
• Prepare daily schedules from the approved Weekly Schedule. Coordinate daily schedules with Maintenance Foremen, Supervisor and Operations Foremen and ensure that a complete planning package is attached to the work order. Check received materials and issue to craftsmen.
• Request crane/trailer and ensure contracts readiness or other resources required on the daily scheduled jobs. List, edit and check all issued maintenance tickets and plan/schedule work.
• Plan major jobs with the assistance of the senior planner and develop critical path charts if required. Update maintenance order statuses. Generate Plant Maintenance reports. Provide maintenance performance monitoring data for your assigned area.

Minimum Requirements

• As the successful candidate, you must have a Diploma in Electrical Engineering. Bachelor's preferred.
• You should have a minimum of 8 years of special field experience in at least one craft or in maintenance planning.
• Fluent command of the English language, both written and verbal.

Working Environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly. At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

About the Company

Saudi Aramco is an integrated global energy enterprise. The company markets and exports crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas liquids and sulfur. It also ships crude oil worldwide through an affiliated company and participates in petroleum refining and marketing activities at home and abroad. Its overseas affiliates are in the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries span the globe, with offices in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Leiden, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.