Fleet Maintenance Planner

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About Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Marine

Caterpillars Oil and Gas division provides superior products and service solutions to make our customers more efficient and lower total cost of ownership. Globally we deliver engineered oilfield and drilling equipment repair and certification mechanical and rotating equipment repairs and upgrades rapid prototyping of spare parts robust asset management operation and maintenance and field engineering services. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering and service locations worldwide. Join our team and help build engineering solutions that change the you join the Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Marine Division (COGMD) youre joining a global team that helps to power the global energy industry as well as provide power and propulsion on the water.

The Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Marine Division currently has an opening for a Fleet Maintenance Planner located in Houston Texas. As a Fleet Maintenance Planner you will develop a comprehensive maintenance and repair plan meeting specific contractual commitments related to equipment maintenance sustainability and financial performance. The position develops and implements fleet wide maintenance schedules to include preventative maintenance for cutting edge Oil & Gas position also has report out responsibilities to both the key account and internal stakeholders on contract performance and key performance indicators.

This role will have a strong focus on Well Service operations supporting maintenance planning and execution for Caterpillar-owned assets used in well servicing applications.

What You Will Do:

• Develop Fleet Wide Scheduled Planned Maintenance Program
• Coordinate with Key Account Schedules for Maintenance and Overhaul Programs/Activities on an as needed basis
• Develop and Generating Standard Overhaul Parts Consist
• Develop and Generate Time Requirement Guide (TRG) for Planned / Overhaul Program
• Coordinate Parts Requirements with E&T Purchasing LPSD and Cat Dealers
• Prepare standard written reports of recommendations for customers and their Caterpillar dealers on a weekly basis
• Build collaborative relationships & acts as a consultant with equipment management personnel
• Provide feedback to the analytics development team where improvements/enhancements are needed
• Provide feedback from dealers & customers to development and implementation team for product enhancements
• Support Well Service maintenance planning reporting and asset management.

Degree Requirement

• Bachelors degree (or equivalent) in business project management supply chain management engineering or other like degrees is preferred

What You Have Skills Knowledge & Experiences:

Planning: Tactical Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term) tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Conflict Management: Knowledge of managing conflicts; ability to anticipate recognize and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual group or situation level.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Mediates and resolves conflicts among individuals groups and departments.
• Practices positive collaboration and converts difficult interactions into productive ones.
• Guides participants in a conflict to rethink their current views.
• Demonstrates good judgment in deciding when to involve a third party.
• Makes parties aware of case studies of constructive and destructive conflicts.
• Surfaces disagreements in early stages.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches tools techniques for recognizing anticipating and resolving organizational operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Expert:

• Gains agreement on the problem-solving process risk assessment decision points and criteria.
• Trains others in the process of eliciting alternatives and assessing their impact.
• Orchestrates the resolution of high-impact and cross-functional problems.
• Successfully organizes problem solvers and stakeholders for high-impact problems.
• Predicts and explains long-term trends and implications for alternatives.
• Monitors industry for best practices and new techniques in problem-solving.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan organize monitor and control projects ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
• Under guidance plans and estimates simple projects.
• Assists in detailed project plans including cost schedule and resource requirements.
• Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
• Produces standard project status reports.

Preventive Maintenance: Knowledge of equipment and its functioning; ability to conduct Preventive Maintenance at scheduled intervals to determine equipments corrective actions and avoid untimely breakdowns.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Coordinates resources for maintenance repair and overhaul of equipment.
• Designs procedures for preventive measures to help improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Diagnoses problems and malfunctions in a wide variety of manufacturing equipment.
• Oversees that safety and health standards adhere to the preventive maintenance tasks.
• Trains the subordinates as well as equipment operators on how to prolong the life span of manufacturing equipment.
• Updates preventive maintenance systems for all schedules of manufacturing equipment.
• Support Well Service maintenance planning reporting and asset management.

Operation and Maintenance: Knowledge of operation principles methods and processes; ability to handle day-to-day and strategic issues and operational requirements.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Participates in the evaluation and selection of operations and maintenance systems.
• Analyzes operations; evaluates trends and implements corrective actions as necessary.
• Works with complex issues and their criticalities for the organization.
• Advises others on key aspects of effective and efficient operation and workload optimization.

Additional Information

• This position is located in Houston Texas
• Relocation is not available for this position
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer such as H L TN F J E O.

As a global company Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the worlds leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment off-highway diesel and natural gas engines industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years we have been helping customers build a better more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services backed by our global dealer network provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors job level market locationjob-related knowledge skills individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility terms and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical dental and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation Holidays Volunteer etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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