Maintenance Planning Engineer (Aтырау 25/12/2020)

About the Role

This position provides full planning, work management, analysis, and guidance for all offshore operations. The role involves coordinating with maintenance, operations, and service departments to ensure resource availability, including manpower, materials, documentation, and support for corrective and preventive maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Develop maintenance plans and working documentation for a 14-day look-ahead and guide work preparers for 7-day execution plans in accordance with established MIE procedures.
• Review schedule compliance weekly for both preventive and corrective works and report findings.
• Enhance and ensure adherence to schedule compliance by closely working with work performers.
• Track and report plans, highlighting and offering solutions to problems.
• Monitor outstanding work requests, work orders, and due/overdue inspection items in the system backlog.
• Analyze technical documentation for maintenance activities and proactively address planning and risk analysis.
• Review existing maintenance routines delivered by vendors to ensure compliance with ROK regulations and SIL requirements.
• Utilize CMMS procedures and report field feedback.
• Record, agree, and review all interface issues on a weekly basis.
• Review short-term critical tasks weekly.
• Develop and maintain internal and external department reports.
• Prepare for major plant turnarounds, including scopes of work, spares, resources, and tools.
• Plan and schedule major rotating equipment overhauls, including scopes of work, spares, resources, and tools.
• Assist with continuous improvement of equipment maintenance strategies and spare parts holdings.
• Track, report, and manage maintenance key performance indicators.
• Maintain an up-to-date status of spare parts used, needed, and forecasted.

Requirements

• Engineering degree related to the oil & gas industry.
• Minimum of 3 years of industry experience.
• Good experience in maintenance planning systems, preferably within SAP Blueprint.
• Experience using current planning and scheduling methods and tools, e.g., Primavera.
• Understanding of Asset Maintenance & Integrity standards and practices, with experience as an Operations Maintenance professional in EP and/or Refinery/LNG plants.
• Knowledge of project engineering planning & execution methods.
• Familiarity with engineering specifications, equipment functions/operating modes, and company equipment operation rules.
• Knowledge of standards such as API, NACE, ASME, and experience working in H2S hazardous areas is preferred.
• Exposure to compiling equipment passports, punch lists, specifications, and other technical documentation.
• Medical Certificate of Fitness.
• Valid BOSIET Certificate (Basic Offshore Safety Induction & Emergency Training) or equivalent.
• Previous experience in the Caspian Area would be beneficial.

Skills

• Good communication skills, both verbal and written, including the ability to write effective reports.
• Ability to work in team environments and within multi-functional, multi-cultural, and multi-location dynamics.
• Capacity to integrate into multinational and national teams.
• Strong analytical skills.
• HSE mindset and strong commitment to safety.
• Supervisory ability to coordinate contractor staff.
• Completer/finisher delivering against targets and deadlines.
• Strong team player.
• Experience managing scope change pressures.
• Good fluency in spoken and written English.

Schedule

28 days on / 28 days off rotation at the Kashagan site.