What are you going to do 

  • Prime responsibility for carrying out the planning of daily maintenance activities with primary responsibility to ensure 'right-first-time' job performance so that equipment reliability is maximized, while improving maintenance 'tool time' ,'work quality' by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labor and non-labor resources including materials and services.
  • The role is expected to be able to remove uncertainty to execute planning in a systematic, efficient and economical way with forecasted maintenance job planning approach.
  • He or she should be able to independently develop cost and time estimates of planned maintenance work to meet budgets and schedules.
  • Planning Engineer shall have Competency and work experience in SAP Maintenance module, preferably in SAP S4-HANA including order planning, Purchase requisition, service entry sheets, call-off orders, service orders, Maintenance related Master data creation, updation, deletion etc.
  • Establish, maintain and improve the Maintenance Plans within the area of responsibility
  • Develop equipment preventive maintenance schedule.
  • Based on the daily new work request from production, Planning engineer shall prepare detailed activity break up along with the estimation of required resources for the job i.e. internal and external manpower, materials and services.
  • Preparing work pack for each work order.
  • Coordinate and review the work plan for assigned maintenance activities; review and evaluate planned work, methods , procedures and oversee spare parts inventory.
  • Participate in maintenance contracts handling including scope development, specifications, initiating procurement process, technical evaluation and provide support to superiors for management approval process as and when required.
  • Day to day coordination with contractors to supply manpower and/or services based on requirement during daily work order planning.
  • Verify and process the invoices submitted by the contractor.
  • Communicate and Co-ordinate with end-users to ensure spares and materials are made available by Planning Engineers for schedule activities. Also provide feedback to MRP so that cost-effective replenishment levels are maintained.
  • Updating the item master including item specifications, Bill of Material, Spare Parts Criticality and new item codes in ERP as and when required.
  • Responsible for the Periodic Inventory review & Changes in the buffer stock levels with the coordination of end-users.
  • Co-ordinate with Supply Chain department and Contractors for procurement of spares to ensure the availability.
  • Provide superiors with work status reports to enable effective monitoring of overall progress against agreed plans.
  • Provide the Maintenance key performance indicators data to superiors on weekly and monthly basis.
  • Estimate the annual planning of major maintenance job pertaining to individual area of responsibility and provide inputs to budgeting process.
  • Forecast the requirement of labor resources, materials and services and initiate necessary procurement actions to ensure that all resources are made available on time in order to achieve optimized maintenance cost.
  • Record keeping in CMMS (computerized maintenance management system).

Essential skills and knowledge

  • Bachelor's Engineering degree (12+4 years) - Instrument
  • 05 years relevant experience in Oil & Gas/Petrochemical/Fertilizer industry and competency
  • Hands-on experience of the Work order part of EAM (enterprise asset maintenance) module of SAP would be preferable. Competency and work experience in ERP - SAP, preferably in SAP S4-HANA including Competency and work experience in Maintenance related Master data creation, master data updating, master data deletion etc in SAP.

What we offer 

  • Salary:
    • Monthly Rate in QAR (All - inclusive)
  • Work Schedule:
    • 8 Hours / 5 Days
  • Duration:
    • 5 years
  • Location:
    • Qatar

Closing: 29 April 2026

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Vacancy reference: CR-282768

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Babu Harishchandra Jadhav

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