Manager-Planning&Reliability

Job Responsibilities

• Lead Planning, Reliability, Maintenance Support, Workshop, and Piping functions to improve plant availability, equipment reliability, shutdown performance, and maintenance service quality.
• Plan, coordinate, and govern plant shutdowns, including scope development, scheduling, resource allocation, execution monitoring, post-mortem reviews, and action tracking.
• Develop and standardize maintenance and shutdown planning processes, workflows, reporting systems, and performance tracking tools.
• Drive reliability programs, including condition monitoring, vibration analysis, predictive maintenance, defect management, and lubrication excellence initiatives.
• Manage in-house Workshop and Piping teams, ensuring effective support for maintenance, repairs, fabrication, shutdowns, and plant improvement projects.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and reliability improvement initiatives for critical and recurring equipment failures.
• Identify and implement maintenance optimization and cost-saving opportunities through improved maintenance strategies, equipment refurbishment, lubrication programs, and asset performance improvements.
• Develop and maintain planning, reliability, and maintenance tracking systems, ensuring accurate reporting, documentation, and performance monitoring.
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, Safety, contractors, and vendors to ensure maintenance readiness and successful project execution.
• Develop and standardize SOPs, work instructions, inspection standards, and maintenance procedures.
• Promote safe work practices and regulatory compliance during maintenance and shutdown activities.
• Lead, coach, and develop engineers, planners, supervisors, and technicians to build a strong reliability-focused culture.
• Support future maintenance digitalization initiatives through structured data management and reporting systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in maintenance, reliability, shutdown planning, plant engineering, workshop operations, piping services, or heavy industrial maintenance.
• Experience in paper mills, process plants, heavy manufacturing, or related industries is preferred.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of preventive, predictive, condition-based maintenance, reliability engineering, RCA, and lubrication management.
• Proven experience in shutdown planning, resource coordination, contractor management, and execution control.
• Familiarity with condition monitoring techniques, including vibration analysis and equipment inspection.
• Experience managing workshop, piping, repair, refurbishment, and fabrication activities.
• Strong Excel and maintenance tracking/reporting skills.
• Excellent leadership, project management, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of maintenance safety requirements and permit-to-work systems.
• Knowledge of SharePoint, Power BI, SAP, or other maintenance management systems is an added advantage.