Planning Engineer - Maintenance Planning

Planning Engineer Maintenance Planning

Locations: Vadodara and Chennai

Experience: 5–7 years

Qualification: BE/B.Tech or equivalent in Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Planning Engineer with experience in maintenance work preparation and hands-on SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP-PM). The role involves preparing preventive and corrective maintenance work orders, developing execution-ready work packs, and coordinating resources, materials, documentation, and safety requirements to support efficient maintenance execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, screen, and clarify maintenance notifications and work requests to establish a clear scope of work.
• Prepare preventive maintenance (PM) work orders and plan or assign smaller corrective maintenance (CM) work orders.
• Develop comprehensive work packs, job plans, and execution procedures using approved technical documentation.
• Define labor requirements, tools, materials, external services, operation instructions, equipment isolation requirements, permits, and applicable compliance requirements.
• Use controlled task lists and standard job plans to ensure consistency and repeatability in maintenance activities.
• Review historical work orders and execution feedback to improve planning accuracy and work-pack quality.
• Identify gaps in equipment Bills of Materials (BOMs), task lists, and maintenance master data, and initiate controlled change requests, including Z6 requests where applicable.
• Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance Engineering, Supply Chain, Schedulers, and execution teams to resolve planning gaps and ensure work readiness.
• Maintain accurate planning records in SAP-PM and support timely work-order closure and service-entry activities.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Strong knowledge of preventive and corrective maintenance planning.
• Hands-on experience with SAP-PM transactions, work orders, notifications, task lists, and planning objects.
• Ability to develop clear, complete, and execution-ready maintenance work packs.
• Proficiency in interpreting technical drawings, equipment manuals, and maintenance procedures.
• Ability to identify spare parts, materials, tools, and service requirements.
• Understanding of maintenance safety, isolation, permit, and compliance requirements.
• Strong coordination, communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple maintenance-planning priorities.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5–7 years of relevant experience in maintenance work preparation or maintenance planning.
• Hands-on SAP-PM experience is essential.
• BE/B.Tech or equivalent in Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline.