Senior Asset planning Engineer M/F

Position description

Job title

Senior Asset planning Engineer M/F

Contract type

Fixed-term-contract

Contractual hours

Full time

Contract duration

3 years

Job description

We currently have an opportunity within SPIE Global Services Energy Doha, Qatar for a

Senior Planning Engineer

Job Purpose

The Senior Asset Planning Engineer is responsible for developing, optimizing, and governing maintenance and asset management plans to maximize asset reliability, operational availability, safety, and lifecycle value. The role ensures effective planning, scheduling, resource optimization, materials readiness, and execution support for preventive, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance activities across operating facilities.

The position serves as the focal point between Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Procurement, Warehouse, and Contractors to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective maintenance execution while meeting organizational performance objectives.

Your main duties will be to: -

• Develop and maintain long-term and short-term asset maintenance strategies and plans.
• Establish annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily maintenance plans aligned with operational objectives.
• Manage preventive, predictive, corrective, and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Review maintenance notifications, prioritize work requests, and convert approved activities into executable work orders.
• Develop and continuously improve maintenance task lists, job plans, standard work instructions, and maintenance procedures.
• Ensure effective maintenance planning for static, rotating, electrical, instrumentation, and utility assets.

Work Management & Scheduling

• Prepare detailed maintenance work packs including scope, resources, durations, materials, equipment, tools, permits, and execution methodology.
• Develop integrated maintenance schedules utilizing SAP PM, Primavera P6, and other planning systems.
• Coordinate daily, weekly, monthly, and 90-day look-ahead planning activities.
• Optimize maintenance windows and shutdown schedules to minimize production losses.
• Monitor schedule compliance and implement recovery actions for overdue and critical maintenance activities.
• Asset Reliability & Performance
• Support reliability improvement initiatives through analysis of equipment performance and failure trends.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Analysis, and reliability studies.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Reliability teams to optimize PM frequencies and maintenance strategies.
• Identify opportunities to improve equipment availability, reduce downtime, and enhance lifecycle performance.
• Ensure maintenance plans support regulatory and operational integrity requirements.

Profile

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent Engineering discipline.
Professional certifications in Maintenance Management, Reliability Engineering, Asset Management, or Project Controls are an advantage.
Membership in relevant engineering institutions is desirable.

Minimum 10+ years of experience in maintenance planning, asset management, reliability, or turnaround planning within Oil & Gas, LNG, GTL, Petrochemical, Refining, Power, or related industries.
Experience supporting both routine maintenance and major shutdown/turnaround events.
Strong exposure to asset integrity and reliability improvement programs.
Experience working with operational and brownfield facilities is preferred.

Technical Competencies

SAP PM & MM
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
Preventive & Predictive Maintenance
Asset Lifecycle Management
Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
Risk-Based Maintenance (RBM)
Work Management Processes
Primavera P6
Project Scheduling & Resource Management
Material Planning & Inventory Optimization
KPI Development & Performance Monitoring
Shutdown & Turnaround Planning
Budgeting & Cost Control
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Asset Integrity Management

SPIE Global Services Energy is committed to promote diversity. This position is opened to people with disabilities

We offer long-term contract with attractive daily rate, insurance coverage, transportation & expat standard accommodation

You will have good interpersonal and organizational skills, as well as, a good level of computer literacy and be proficient in Microsoft Office

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What can we offer you?

We offer long-term contract with attractive daily rate, insurance coverage, transportation & expat standard accommodation