Maintenance Planner

Job description / Role

Job Summary
• Upon receipt of any maintenance request (Notification) the Maintenance Planner is responsible for the detailed planning and preparation activities to ensure that the execution of the maintenance request can be performed safely with the optimal resources in the shortest duration within the agreed timeframe.

Major Duties / Responsibilities
• Upon receipt, convert notifications into work orders in SAP.
• Organize weekly planning meeting to discuss maintenance orders of assigned area with maintenance coordinator, supervisor, operation supervisor and specialty to clarify scope of work and organize next week schedule.
• Communicate with maintenance coordinator to identify require outside service contracts, spare parts, materials and special tools required that are required to do the job.
• Create Service PR for any required services and follow up with Purchasing.
• Reserve required material if it is available as stock spare and ask supervisor to collect.
• Create sub order to central workshop planners to any service that are required from
• Overhauling and fabrication activities at Workshop
• Plan and schedule plants preventative maintenance orders.
• Develop weekly maintenance schedule and send to field maintenance supervisor, coordinator, operation supervisor and specialist.
• Create material PR for non-stock material and follow up with Purchasing.
• Load work center activities (Operation accounts) into order and assign resource quantities as required.
• Once job is ready for scheduling, flag it in the system for upload into central schedule as per the agreed time frame.
• Update completed tasks in the SAP system on a daily basis.
• Ensure that work history is captured within the notification (Failure codes etc.)
• Ensure that work orders and notifications get closed after completion without delay.
• Update the order in SAP with proper user status.
• Communicate to Operation for overdue PM to be deferred.
• Coordinate spares refurbishment.
• Refurbished material returns back to warehouse as stock material.
• Updating the equipment Bill of material.
• Create the request through spare finder for the non-inventory items to
• Any assignment from management from time to time.

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience
• Academic - Diploma or equivalent
• Related Work Experience (type and years)
• Recognized maintenance craftsmen with at least 5 years plus planning experience
• 5 years plus multi-disciplined planning experience in a Petrochemical Environment

Additional / Specialized Training
• Excellent working knowledge of SAP, PM Module

Language Skills
• Excellent communication skills

About the Company

Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) is a Saudi joint stock company owned jointly by private sector investors from Saudi Arabia and GCC countries. The company was established on 22/12/1999, with a total capital of SR 500 milion (currently SR 1.5 billion).

Sipchem actively invests in petrochemical and chemical industries, both basic and intermediate to produce chemicals used to manufacture a multitude of products that improve the lives of people worldwide.

Through its affiliates, International Methanol Company (IMC) and Gulf Advanced Chemical Industries Company (GACIC), Sipchem produces one million mtpa of methanol and 75 thousand mtpa of butanediol.

For the attainment of sustainable growth according to a special strategy that links the company's present with its future, Sipchem continuously explores the prospects of development and renovation to facilitate the process of desired growth and expansion. In the second half of 2006, Sipchem started construction of Acetyl Complex which consists of Acetic Acid plant (460 thousand mtpa), Vinyl Acetate Monomer plant (330 thousand mtpa) and Carbon Monoxide plant (345 thousand mtpa). Commercial operation of these plants is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2009. The launch of these additional facilities demonstrates the company's aggressive expansion program, which aims to make it one of the largest, fully-integrated, petrochemical complexes in the Middle East, owned and operated by the private sector.

In conducting its activities, Sipchem maintains strict adherence to the highest product quality standard without compromising its commitment to the environment and the safety of its employees and the community.