About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, Gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost efficiency.

Mechanical Planner/Scheduler  

This position handles and owns the processing of all work requests from submission through completion and TECO including all work order system controls and backlog management. Processing includes detailed planning of the work as well as scheduling, completion, and any required follow-up. Planning includes fully understanding the scope of the required work, constraints of having access to the equipment, and work preparation. Planning includes figuring out all the necessary materials, labor, and services needed to safely complete the work. All work must be planned with the intent of archiving the written plans such that the plans are retrievable for all future work. Scheduling includes producing a weekly schedule which has status continuously updated during execution considering break in work and discovery which affect the plan. This position is expected to spend considerable time in the field physically planning jobs and confirming the work with stakeholders. Works closely with the site warehouse to ensure spare parts stock and stock quantities support normal repair activities. 

Responsibilities 

Produces a weekly maintenance schedule. Maintain all SAP maintenance master data following MOC’s such as: bill of materials, equipment records, spare part identification, functional location updates, maintenance strategies, maintenance plans, task lists, work centers, maintenance items, and WO attachments. Order major repair materials for planned work through direct POs or via stores reservations. Build new and update individual equipment BOMs, as necessary. Publish and track planning, scheduling, and work execution KPIs weekly. Scope and compile job packages for all planned work including labor requirements, tools, parts and materials, procedures, equipment, permits, or any other resources needed for a job. Create follow-up work orders from PdM reports. Work closely with the Reliability Engineers to evaluate findings from PdM reports and determination of corrective next steps. Coordinate with operations and production planning to execute long range scheduling of initiative-taking work and equipment outages. Produce detailed outage plans and schedules (typically 2 larger outages per year). These consist of standardized base outage PM plans, planned vessel inspections, and backlog corrective maintenance. Maintain an exact work backlog by craft which considers all planned and unplanned orders as well as approved notifications. Update the PM program design to ensure PMs for major equipment have all minor related PMs linked so all PMs are completed when the major equipment is made available. Improve all routine work using BOM’s and task lists. Analyze feedback received from crafts to adjust labor hours to improve planning efficiency (compare actual vs. planned hours). Prepare reports and update task lists, as necessary. Work with storeroom coordinator to update material expert’s and generate stock change requests for new/existing spare parts inventory. Participate in equipment reliability strategy development which follows Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) strategies. Maintain and update filing of proper maintenance records, either manually or using a computer. Compile, copy, sort, and file records of office activities, project documentation, equipment history and other data. Work with maintenance leadership to drive continuous improvement for maintenance work processes. Included in the department’s on-call salaried rotation schedule. Other duties as assigned. Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States.  Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Essential Competencies

Accuracy – Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly. Communication, Oral – Ability to communicate effectively with others. Communication, written – Ability to communicate in writing, clearly and concisely. Customer Oriented – Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures. Meticulous – Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task. Teamwork – Ability to show a cheerful demeanor toward others and work effectively in a team environment. Honesty/Integrity – Essential to be viewed as credible in the workplace. Initiative – Ability to make decisions or solve a problem or reach a goal. Organized – Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task. Relationship Building – Ability to effectively build relationships with stakeholders and co-workers. Initiative-taking – Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one’s ability using his or her own drive or initiative. Learning Capacity – Ability to learn and apply new knowledge and skills.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Certifications/License: SAP, Driver's License, and TWIC-Card.

Education & Experience 

Associate degree and at least 5 years of maintenance planning and project planning experience in an industrial environment An equivalent combination of experience and education can be substituted for the requirements above. Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite primarily Word, Excel, and PowerPoint software. Demonstrated working knowledge in effectively using SAP Plant Maintenance and Materials Management modules related to notifications, orders, preparing schedules, reserving warehouse materials. Working knowledge of all craft disciplines including Millwright/Mechanical, Pipefitting, Electrical, Instrumentation, Painting, Insulation, and Scaffolding.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes, or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement). 

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