Lead Maintenance Planner

We are seeking a Lead Maintenance Planner to join the Southern Area Power Operations Department.

The Southern Area Power Operations Department is responsible to deliver electrical energy to customers in the safest, most reliable and economical manner through a competent workforce committed to excellence and customer satisfaction.

Your primary role is to plan, estimate and schedule maintenance work in an Industrial Maintenance Division and assist the senior Maintenance Planner in planning, estimating and scheduling more jobs. Utilizes corporate maintenance computer programs and databases such as SAP to provide information in a timely efficient manner. Coordinates stepped work within the same organization (different work centers). Analyzes and prepares organization daily / weekly schedules.

Key Responsibilities

• Processes work orders; visits job site when necessary; utilizes knowledge of craft skills and equipment to place job steps in the proper sequence.
• Identifies all materials, tools, equipment, and special preparations required for each job step.
• Provides foremen with a completed package at minimum cost; ensures materials are received prior to scheduling the job and manages surplus or excess material return to proper handling personnel.
• Arranges and schedules support service equipment to coincide with maintenance order scheduling; provides maintenance performance monitoring data for his assigned area or unit; prepares Whole Job Standards and reviews existing standards for potential application.
• Participates in the Weekly / Schedule Coordination Meeting and presents the Weekly Schedule of workable maintenance jobs from the backlog; ensures which jobs will be worked in the upcoming week.
• Prepares daily schedules from the approved Weekly Schedule; coordinates daily schedules with Maintenance Foremen, Supervisor and Operations Foremen; ensures that a complete planning package is attached to the work order; checks, receives materials and issues to craftsmen.
• Requests crane / trailer and ensures contract readiness or other resources required on the daily scheduled jobs; lists, edits and checks all issued maintenance tickets and plans / schedules work.
• Plans major jobs with the assistance of the senior planner and develops critical path charts if required; updates maintenance order statuses; generates Plant Maintenance reports; provides maintenance performance monitoring data for his assigned area.

Qualifications

Job Post Duration

Job posting end date : 12 / 31 / 2025

Working environment

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world‑scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development. We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.

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