What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Build Specialist position at Katalyst CRO?
Key Responsibilities
Maintenance Strategy & Planning
Maintenance Strategy & Planning
- Review existing maintenance strategies, programs, maintenance plans, items, task lists, frequencies, cycles, call horizons, packages, and scheduling parameters.
- Analyze OEM manuals, maintenance procedures, engineering requirements, regulatory obligations, reliability studies, failure modes, criticality, and current site practices.
- Identify missing, duplicate, obsolete, conflicting, overly frequent, under-maintained, or non-value-adding maintenance content and recommend appropriate actions.
- Develop and optimize maintenance plans, maintenance items, general and equipment task lists, strategies, packages, cycles, object assignments, and scheduling parameters.
- Define job steps, sequencing, craft or skill requirements, labor hours, durations, tools, materials, permits, and approved safety references.
- Facilitate maintenance strategy review workshops with Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Operations, HSE, and technical subject matter experts.
- Align maintenance strategies with asset criticality, operating context, OEM guidance, compliance requirements, and approved maintenance philosophy.
- Prepare SAP PM load templates, source traceability, approval logs, exception registers, and load-readiness reports.
- Validate completeness, consistency, formatting, cross-object relationships, and referential integrity across equipment, plans, items, task lists, and BOM/material linkages.
- Support pre-load validation, post-load verification, defect correction, approvals, and final handover.
- Bachelor's degree or diploma in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or a related discipline.
- 5 years of experience in SAP PM, maintenance planning, maintenance build, or reliability within industrial facilities.
- Hands-on experience developing maintenance plans, maintenance items, task lists, maintenance strategies, cycles, and packages.
- Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, OEM manuals, engineering drawings, maintenance procedures, and equipment datasheets.
- Experience analyzing existing maintenance strategies and CMMS builds and converting findings into practical improvements.
- Knowledge of preventive maintenance optimization, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), asset criticality, and regulatory maintenance requirements.
- Strong project execution, teamwork, client relationship management, and technical workshop facilitation skills.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, data validation, reconciliation, and reporting capabilities.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA PM and mass-load tools.
- Experience in Client, oil and gas, petrochemical, refinery, process, or heavy industrial facilities.
- Familiarity with RCM, preventive maintenance optimization, failure-mode analysis, job-plan development, and maintenance work management.
- Experience supporting greenfield or brownfield CMMS implementation, migration, or improvement programs.
- Project management, planning, progress tracking, risk management, and delivery governance.
- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
- Strong client relationship management, stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, and communication skills.
- Ability to interpret P&IDs, OEM manuals, engineering drawings, equipment datasheets, equipment lists, and vendor documentation.
- Ability to analyze maintenance strategies, CMMS structures, data quality, and build maturity and recommend practical improvements.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and Microsoft Excel skills.