Fleet Maintenance Planner

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Job Description:

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About Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Marine

Caterpillar’s Oil and Gas division, provides superior products and service solutions to make our customers more efficient and lower total cost of ownership.  Globally, we deliver engineered oilfield and drilling equipment repair and certification, mechanical and rotating equipment repairs and upgrades, rapid prototyping of spare parts, robust asset management, operation and maintenance and field engineering services. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering and service locations worldwide. Join our team and help build engineering solutions that change the industry. When you join the Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Marine Division (COGMD), you’re joining a global team that helps to power the global energy industry as well as provide power and propulsion on the water.

The Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Marine Division currently has an opening for a Fleet Maintenance Planner located in Houston, Texas.  As a Fleet Maintenance Planner you will develop a comprehensive maintenance and repair plan meeting specific contractual commitments related to equipment maintenance, sustainability, and financial performance.  The position develops and implements fleet wide maintenance schedules to include preventative maintenance for cutting edge Oil & Gas technologies. The position also has report out responsibilities to both the key account and internal stakeholders on contract performance and key performance indicators. 

This role will have a strong focus on Well Service operations, supporting maintenance planning and execution for Caterpillar-owned assets used in well servicing applications.

What You Will Do:

• Develop Fleet Wide Scheduled Planned Maintenance Program
• Coordinate with Key Account Schedules for Maintenance and Overhaul Programs/Activities on an as needed basis
• Develop and Generating Standard Overhaul Parts Consist
• Develop and Generate Time Requirement Guide (TRG) for Planned / Overhaul Program
• Coordinate Parts Requirements with E&T Purchasing, LPSD, and Cat Dealers
• Prepare standard written reports of recommendations for customers and their Caterpillar dealers on a weekly basis
• Build collaborative relationships & acts as a consultant with equipment management personnel
• Provide feedback to the analytics development team where improvements/enhancements are needed
• Provide feedback from dealers & customers to development and implementation team for product enhancements
• Support Well Service maintenance planning, reporting, and asset management.

Degree Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in business, project management, supply chain management, engineering or other like degrees is preferred

What You Have – Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences:

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Conflict Management: Knowledge of managing conflicts; ability to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Mediates and resolves conflicts among individuals, groups, and departments.
• Practices positive collaboration and converts difficult interactions into productive ones.
• Guides participants in a conflict to rethink their current views.
• Demonstrates good judgment in deciding when to involve a third party.
• Makes parties aware of case studies of constructive and destructive conflicts.
• Surfaces dis