Maintenance Planner - Oil & Gas (12 Months)
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The Maintenance Planner - Oil & Gas is a 12-month contract role based in Dubai, UAE.
The role plans and schedules preventive, corrective, shutdown, and turnaround maintenance in a petrochemical or oil and gas plant.
The position coordinates with operations, maintenance, procurement, and warehouse teams to support plant reliability, safety, and operational efficiency.
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Transguard Workforce Solutions provides integrated HR solutions in the UAE and is recruiting this role for a client in Dubai.
Position Overview
The Maintenance Planner - Oil & Gas is a 12-month contract role based in Dubai, UAE.
The role plans and schedules preventive, corrective, shutdown, and turnaround maintenance in a petrochemical or oil and gas plant.
The position coordinates with operations, maintenance, procurement, and warehouse teams to support plant reliability, safety, and operational efficiency.
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
- Develop preventive maintenance programs for plant equipment and facilities.
- Plan routine, corrective, emergency, shutdown, and turnaround maintenance activities.
- Define job scope, sequence, manpower, tools, materials, and task duration.
- Prepare annual schedules and coordinate execution to minimize plant downtime.
Shutdown and Turnaround Planning
- Prepare shutdown and turnaround work scopes, work packs, and schedules.
- Develop overall turnaround schedules, identify critical path activities, and monitor milestones.
- Track progress and risks, provide stakeholder updates, and confirm resource availability.
SAP and Materials Management
- Manage SAP work orders, maintenance plans, equipment master data, bills of materials, maintenance history, and material reservations.
- Prepare spare parts and material requirements, raise purchase requisitions, and coordinate with procurement and warehouse teams.
- Conduct technical evaluations of maintenance materials and services when required.
Reporting and Compliance
- Prepare maintenance KPI, work completion, performance, cost, and management reports.
- Estimate maintenance and shutdown costs and monitor expenditure against budget.
- Support Management of Change and Authorization for Expenditure processes.
- Ensure maintenance activities comply with company policies, procedures, HSE requirements, and best practices.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
- At least five years of maintenance experience in petrochemical, refinery, chemical, oil and gas, or similar process industries.
- Knowledge of preventive maintenance, plant equipment, and reliability principles.
- Hands-on SAP PM or equivalent CMMS experience.
- Proficiency in Primavera P6 and/or MS Project.
- Experience with shutdown and turnaround planning, scheduling, and execution support.
- Knowledge of spare parts management, material planning, procurement, HSE, and maintenance best practices.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills, with strong analytical, reporting, coordination, and communication abilities.
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