Maintenance Planning Specialist, Lake Charles Refinery

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As a Maintenance Planning Specialist II, you will play a pivotal role in helping keep our operations running smoothly and safely. This position is at the heart of our maintenance team, where your knowledge in organizing, prioritizing, and coordinating maintenance activities directly impacts plant reliability and performance. You’ll be a resource for translating technical needs into actionable plans, ensuring every detail is in place for successful maintenance execution.

Your work will help drive operational excellence, support a culture of safety, and make a tangible difference in the day-to-day success of our refinery.

• Develop and manage detailed maintenance schedules and plans for routine overhauls and inspections to optimize plant resources and minimize downtime.
• Coordinate with engineering and operations teams to review proposals, adjust schedules, and analyze work returns to measure maintenance effectiveness.
• Plan and allocate resources for complex projects, maintain accurate maintenance histories, and ensure compliance with safety standards and regulatory requirements.
• Create and refine planning packages, manage documentation, and support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance reliability and efficiency.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve scope and resource needs, providing clear communication on job status and delivering complete work packages that maximize craft productivity.
• Leverage tools like SAP to build and update task libraries, track equipment changes, and support turnaround planning.
• Drive quality assurance, data analysis, and process optimization, contributing to a culture of safety and collaboration.
• Proactively ensure maintenance activities align with organizational goals and deliver lasting value to the operation.

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country.
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC).
• Must be 18 years of age.
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodations, to comply with the following:
• Travel up to 5%.
• Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays, and perform occasional duties.
• Transport articles up to 50 pounds.
• Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet.
• Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines, around chemicals and hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat, and in harsh weather conditions.
• Wear fire retardant clothing and personal protective equipment.
• Maintain face daily for proper respirator/face mask seal (e.g., be free of facial hair and/or clean shaven).
• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• 3 or more years of craft or operations experience in the Energy industry.

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree.
• 5 or more years of craft or operations experience in the Energy industry.
• 5 or more years of experience in maintenance planning related to safety, craft knowledge, materials, CPM logic, and logistics.
• Proficiency working in Microsoft Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Proficiency in SAP for the ODM work process (MM, PM, PS modules).
• Ability to plan multi-craft jobs.
• Working knowledge of engineering, safety, and IHS standards and procedures.
• Able to read and perform material take-offs from isometrics and equipment drawings.
• Understands and uses functional expertise to contribute to the success of the business.
• Ability to read, interpret and apply information from files, drawings, catalogs, reports and manuals.

$111,600 – $136,400

The Lake Charles Refinery is located in Westlake, Louisiana. Refinery facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrocracking, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. Facilities also include a specialty coker and calciner. The refinery processes a mixture of light to heavy, low- and high-sulfur and low- and high-acid crude oils. It receives domestic, Canadian and other foreign crude oil through truck, pipeline, marine transportation and terminals, including the Beaumont and Clifton Ridge terminals and the Bayou Bridge Pipeline.

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