Planning Engineer

Location : Rabigh 

• Review and issue daily schedules of maintenance activities and ensure that work orders are entered on SAP and are executed according to priorities and resource availabilities.
• Prepare major maintenance and turnaround activity plans and liaise with other operations, technical services and maintenance units to monitor major shutdowns and turnaround activities until completion, in addition to preparing daily shutdown progress reports indicating percentage of actual work completed against plan.
• Monitor the execution of preventive and corrective maintenance programs and activities, as well as maintaining the monthly planning schedule on MS-project detailing activity start and finish dates, equipment tag numbers and other details.
• Verify material requirements and equipment specifications and any other technical issues, as required, with maintenance and other operations units in order to expedite the purchase of reserve stock materials.
• Review plant modification and other engineering projects plans and drawings, in addition to monitoring physical execution and completion of works, providing technical advice and assistance when needed.
• Prepare various maintenance and inspection management reports including status reports, statistics, monthly work order backlog analysis, shutdown reports, actual cost vs. planned budget variance analysis, etc., to monitor the effectiveness of maintenance and inspection programs and be able to recommend changes as required
• Liaise with Maintenance Manager and Engineers in the maintenance section to determine resource requirements in order to coordinate manpower outsourcing, material, equipment and services as required.
• Develop a project schedule to define outage goals, assign resources, finalize the scope and budget estimation and purchase orders as well as identify the critical path to lay out the coordination strategy and direct the overall execution for both the interrelated and independent tasks.
• Prepare the Administrative procedures, technical procedures, quality plans, shutdown safety plan and temporary services/facilities plan and share it with the plant and contract staff to ensure they are all updated and well-versed with the procedures.
• Plan and coordinate the outage coordination meetings with the stakeholders, to ensure robust planning and execution and timely escalation and resolution of issues. 
• Supervise the effective administration of SAP processes within the planning section and adhere to SAP guidelines in all related aspects of annual and monthly planning, scheduling, data management to ensure data/system integrity in line with NOMAC’s defined standards.