Maintenance Planner

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

Reimagine What’s Possible 

Do you have a passion for safety, solving unique challenges, driving efficiency and operational excellence? Air Products seeks a Maintenance Planner at our LaPorte, TX plant who embodies a safety-first mentality, takes ownership for getting results and can complete daily maintenance activities. If this sounds like you, come grow with us as we continue to build a sustainable tomorrow together!

Reporting to the Maintenance Superintendent, the Maintenance Planner is responsible for minimizing total expensed cost by maximizing work force and resource capabilities through prioritizing, planning and scoping of maintenance work orders in the safest and most efficient manner possible at the La Porte Area Texas sites.  Mechanical and rotating equipment background preferred.

The facility assets include 2-HyCO/Syngas plants, an Air Separation Unit, and a Liquid Hydrogen unit. These units provide a variety of industrial gas products to Air Products extensive array of customers through various pipelines and truck loading stations. A background in maintaining pumps, mechanical seals, vessels, filters, strainers, exchangers, piping, relief valves, gear drives, and reciprocating and centrifugal compressors or turbines is essential for this position. The La Porte Area facilities are 24/7 operations, and candidate must be willing to work extended hours as required.

In this position, you will assist in backlog reviews and prioritization of activities along with the Maintenance Supervisor and assist in developing work scopes as well as estimating cost related to labor, materials, equipment and special tool requirements to complete the job in a safe and cost-effective manner.  You will be expected to drive as well as participate in all aspects of the company’s safety and reliability programs, culture and constantly interface with all site personnel, contracted crafts, equipment suppliers, tool rental providers, engineering, and functional support services.

Required Skills / Abilities:  

• Availability to take calls after hours and weekends to assist with coordinating maintenance technician emergency call outs as well as support in plant activities as needed.

• Be proficient in the use of SAP and Excel to be able to provide lists/spreadsheets for purchase order/cost tracking.

• Ability to read, interpret, and apply engineering specifications, vendor/supplier documentation, piping and instrument diagrams, blueprints, drawings, and procedures.

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Capable of making decisions, prioritize workload, and multi-task.

• Drives responsibilities through to their completion with safety as priority.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Tracking and providing updates on progress of day-to-day jobs on the daily maintenance schedule and will report status updates to both Maintenance Supervisor and Superintendent. 

• Assist in leading and participating in weekly/monthly maintenance planning and backlog meetings with operations teams.

• Provide current updates on projected delivery times of parts on order to aid in the scheduling process.

• Assist in tracking PM compliance and drive the team to meet compliance goals of 100%. 

• Work with the North American PM coordination team to ensure PMs are assigned appropriately to our equipment or update accordingly.

• Assist on PM prioritization based on operation needs, type of equipment and task criticality.

• Assist and lead the planning and execution of smaller plant outages that fall outside of the North American Turn Around Team.

• The Maintenance Planner is expected to provide leadership and oversee contractors by job walkdowns, follow up through the process and verify the work is completed safely and with quality against expectation.

• Support the Maintenance Supervisor and Superintendent in the creation and implementation of standardized maintenance work practices and procedures. - Help coach the teams on a consistent basis to adhere to and improve these work processes.

• Interface with Materials Management and warehousing to create components/parts requisitions, update spares information as needed, create parts list for jo