Planning Engineer - Ghandour - Lebanon

Job Summary & Purpose
Plan preventive and planned corrective maintenance activities to ensure optimization of the utilization of the departmental resources and meet the needs of production and manufacturing operational requirements. Additionally, support project works, when required.
Key Accountability:
- Ensure engineering department guidelines and policies are incorporated in the planning of works.
- Work closely with the General Maintenance Engineer and General Utility Engineer in implementing effectively the clearance system for day-to-day maintenance work orders including organizing & prioritizing based on urgency; balanced workload distribution and backlog clearance prior to posting by concerned section engineer to ensure smooth execution.
- Estimate the standard hours and manpower required for each planned work order with the assistance of General Maintenance Engineer and General Utility Engineer,
- Plan and schedule maintenance work to achieve optimize the quantity and quality of the maintenance service provided, safely, on time, and at a reasonable cost.
- Consolidate, analyze and review the weekly maintenance works on productivity, effectiveness and cost and submit to all concerned engineers and managers in the affiliate in a timely manner.
- Analyze and review results of corrective maintenance of emergency/urgent nature, and advising on possible remedial solutions.
- Analyze and review the variance between the Engineering Maintenance Standard benchmarks against actual and recommend action plan for improvement with the support of General Maintenance and General Utility Engineers.
- Conduct feasibility studies, if necessary, on viability of planned work order requests to avoid unnecessary expenditures that may otherwise be used more effectively.
- Plan, schedule and review the preparation, execution and commissioning checkouts and test-runs of new equipment, products, and/or machinery with the Project, General Maintenance, and General Utility Engineers.
- Track the warranties of externally maintained services and advise the General Maintenance and General Utility Engineers on maturity with sufficient lead times.
- Monitor calibration of all instruments to ensure they are accurately calibrated as per the specifications recommended by the vendors, and ensure they are properly recorded according to planned calibration schedule.
- Assist the General Maintenance and General Utility Engineers in setting the minimum stock level and stock reorder quantity for local and foreign spare parts.
- Assist the General Maintenance, and General Utility Engineers in preparing the annual Maintenance and Repair budgets as well as capital expenditures (CAPEX) prior to submission to Engineering Manager.
- Support and assist in developing engineering safety procedures, and coordinate with QA/QC on related procedures for product safety.
- Channel departmental maintenance planning instructions or decisions to General Maintenance, and General Utility Engineers and report on the results of maintenance activities to the Engineering Manager.
Education & Knowledge
- Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Engineering applications and software.
- Knowledge mechanical/electrical testing equipment and measuring instruments.
- Knowledge of pneumatics/hydraulics, HVAC, and general electrical
- MS Office applications, PMP, AUTOCAD
- Written and spoken fluency in English & Arabic languages

Experience - 4 years of experience as maintenance planner preferably from a similar industry.

Competencies
- Results orientation.
- Good planning & organizational abilities.
- Analytic skills.
- Communication skills.

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