Maintenance Planner

Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.

*Position Overview :

The Maintenance Planner is expected to follow the maintenance work flow process to maximize effectiveness of the crafts and overall maintenance function. This person will interact regularly with maintenance staff, craftsmen, operation UTL s, and management. Requires a good understanding of and experience with accepted industry practices for planning work, materials, services, technical information, and a good understanding of safe work practices in a chemical plant.

*Job Responsibilities :

• Follow the standard maintenance work flow process
• Interact with operation UTL s in the screening of work notifications to ensure that the scope of work, equipment involved, priority, and expected completion date is understood and realistic
• Walk job area to clarify scope of work and expectations; take field measurements as needed, and document field information for job plan
• Expertise in planning out job steps and resources which include labor, materials, services, special tools, work instructions, technical information, drawings, safe work permitting, etc.
• Write work instructions where standard work instructions do not exist; collaborate with discipline specialists and engineers as needed for work instructions
• Understand basics of all typical maintenance crafts, and know who to contact as specialized resources for planning details
• Communicate with venders to clarify job scope and obtain quotes for materials and services
• Maintain awareness of the target date for job scheduling and completion, complete planning 2-3 weeks in advance, and communicate with operation UTL s when the target date is not feasible
• Coordinate regular updates with internal customers to facilitate communication on job planning progress and obstacles
• Responsible for preventive maintenance planning in collaboration with discipline specialists and engineers; update task lists as needed to maintain accurate PM job plans; update equipment BOM s as needed to maintain accurate parts lists for planning
• Assemble and issue job packages; drive continuous improvement in the completeness of the job package as a communication and quality management tool for the maintenance work process
• Monitor and maintain planning backlog within targeted control limits
• Monitor planning accuracy versus target, and drive continuous improvement
• Requires significant use of SAP in work planning, issuing material/service requisitions, warehouse parts reservations, and tracking parts delivery

Strategic Focus & Direction:

• Helps others to find creative solutions to complex problems
• Sought out by others learning analytical problem-solving
• Recognized as a model of good judgment

Trust & Teamwork:

• Self-starter (low maintenance team member)
• Dependable team member
• Proactive collaborative team member
• Exhibits strong/effective personal leadership

Personal Leadership:

• Seen as a leader outside own team
• Suggests change, then follows through to make it happen
• Leads local projects effectively

Achieves Business Results:

• Needs little direction
• Initiates learning on skills needed to improve work
• Is first or a fast follower to new ideas

*Minimum Qualifications :

• Prior experience as job planner or estimator
• 5 years of experience in a skilled trade
• Experience in a chemical plant or in heavy industry
• Experience in planning in SAP
• Ability to use Microsoft Office suite, e.g. Work, Excel, Project
• Ability to perform internet searches for job materials or services
• Able to read and interpret vender manuals and drawings
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively to craftsmen/operators, venders/suppliers, other departmental staff, and management
• Able to organize and plan jobs, and develop job cost estimates
• Ability to learn and apply maintenance best practices
• Highly motivated, energetic, and self-directed
• Able to work effectively in a matrix team environment

Education Requirements :

Minimum high school diploma

Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.

If you are an active Westlake employee (or an employee of any Westlake affiliates), please do not apply here.You will apply via the Jobs Hub application in Workday.