Lead Planner and Scheduler
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 18, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 5, 2026.
Title:
Lead Planner and SchedulerKey Accountabilities
- Promotes a culture of open safety reporting and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to an environment in which all team members are respected
regardless of their individual differences and are motivated to improve
both their individual and team contributions to achieve desired
business results.
- Accountable for supplying an accurate Maintenance schedule to allow
effective and efficient asset maintenance, covering multi-discipline
Preventative (PM) & Corrective (CM) maintenance activity.
- Support station MA’s in ensuring no overdue maintenance (SCE and
Anomaly management) to reduce risk to production /personnel / plant and
environment.
- Responsible for supporting Maint team requests for contractor support
(CTR’s) from end to end, ensuring MA’s provide:-
o quality of scope of work
o accurate cost review / challenge against the supplied resources /
equipment utilisation & materials
o accurate durations
- Responsible for the management of processes and standards, and
monitoring the agreed upon KPIs, taking appropriate actions to close the
deviations from Maintenance team objectives.
- Drives compliance with the standardized Work Management process,
particularly in Primavera scheduling application. (p6)
- Maintains the required daily updates / progress in the following
o O&M tracker (daily)
o Maintenance P6 schedule (daily)
o Flowline leak tracking report (daily)
o Safety critical report (daily)
o Fabrication tracker (weekly)
o SC 14 & 90 day report & forecast (weekly)
o Maint overview report. (weekly)
o Contract fund management (weekly)
- Support station planners for weekly backlog management, within their
area of responsibility, to clean up and prioritize work
- Recommends execution optimization and nesting opportunities to the
station Maint advisor & Maintenance Manager.
- Chairs the 6/12wk Maint activity schedule - deputises for Maint manager,
when not available to ensure good compliance with gate criteria and
accuracy of O&M information. Seeks nesting opportunities for all activities
and ensure no activities at risk (red flag) will be carried into the 6wk
schedule window without prior agreement with FMM.
- Champion Continuous improvements (CI) by standardizing best practice
activities across site and maintenance teams,
o optimize Maintenance Strategy.
o improvements to maintenance build.
o optimize Materials Look-up and Staging.
- Coach and mentor the station planner in the role.
Experience, Qualifications & Key Skills
- Above 12 Years experience in O&G industry (Preferable with IOC’s direct or
contract)
- Technical degree or HNC certificate in engineering.
- Experience in previous Maint lead role (MTL / Maint Superintendent
capacity)
- Practical exposure to production facilities
- Proficient in planning tools (Primevara 6)
- Proficient in CMMS tools (CMSS - Maximo /SAP)
- Proficient in Project management tools (MS Project)
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Ability to to identify proper priorities of maintenance activities in a high
activity environment.
- Driven to deliver continuous improvement.
- Strong bias for being proactive and getting results
- Strong understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling