Senior Maintenance Strategist

About this role:

The Core Maintenance Planning Team Lead is a key part of the Maintenance and Turnaround organization within our ENGINE Center, providing routine maintenance planning support to Chevron's Refining and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) assets.

As a team leader, you will oversee a team of maintenance planners, schedulers, and permit writers responsible for developing detailed plans and schedules to execute planned maintenance and project work.

• You will coordinate the planning and scheduling of all non-turnaround routine maintenance work at the site performed by various crafts.
• Provide SME support on planning, estimating, and scheduling for Chevron executed project work.
• Ensure the development of work packages of consistent high quality in compliance with Chevron standards.
• Drive accountability regarding the use of standard planning and estimating tools and practices. Accountable for the growth and development of planners and schedulers.
• Delivering quality execution work plans and updates on scope status and forecast. Collaborate with site representatives to determine work scope to be executed by maintenance teams.
• Work closely with Operations to ensure schedules are effectively integrated into the operating plan.
• Accountable to partner with Asset Maintenance Team Leads in all crafts to feed planned work into the asset integrated plan/workflow and prepare the work for the field.
• Develop tools to streamline cost and execution forecasting accuracy and report on status at individual project and portfolio level. Seek opportunities to improve planning and scheduling accuracy as well as to remove inefficiencies from planning and scheduling activities.
• Work with Construction Services team to integrate Chevron executed scope into a master project schedule.
• Clearly communicate scope progress to customers, stakeholders, and team members. Assist in growing Routine/Planned Maintenance work process competency within the ENGINE.
• Ensures Lessons Learned reviews are completed for each FEL event and drive subsequent improvement initiatives.
• Proactively supports backlog management.
• Responsible for developing and improving maintenance resource forecasting for the development Asset's 5-year Work Plan and Budget.

• Degree in relevant Engineering or Maintenance Discipline.
• Previous Oil and Gas experience in a Maintenance Planning Leadership Position.
• Strong technical background in planning and scheduling tools – JDE, SAP, Prometheus, Primavera P6.
• Understanding of planning processes including constructability, advanced work packaging, work planning (schedule, resources, cost), project scoping, contract planning and management, progress measurement/controls, and materials management.
• Knowledgeable in core maintenance and technical project planning and scheduling industry best practices. Experience with mechanical, electrical, instrumentation/controls, fabrication, inspection and related disciplines while also having a good working knowledge of complex facility operations, preferably LNG facilities.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in managing site staff.
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain logistics to ensure all work can be completed in remote locations.
• Demonstrated skills in time management to drive effective communications between staff and maintainable assets.

• 15+ years in relevant maintenance planning and execution experience providing technical and maintenance planning support to plant maintenance teams in a complex oil and gas operating environment.
• Familiarity in supporting Operations within the Refining or LNG industry is desirable.
• Demonstrated leadership or supervisory experience is highly regarded.

We offer flexible working hours aligned to support global business requirements, with a standard work week from Monday to Friday, either 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1.30pm to 10.30pm.