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Maintenance Build Specialist

Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences
Charles, LA Full Time | Contractor
POSTED ON 10/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/21/2027

Key Responsibilities
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.

Stakeholder Coordination:

  • 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.

SAP PM Data Management & Validation:

  • 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.
Required Qualifications:
  • 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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.

Core Capabilities:

  • 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.

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$73,002 to $89,005
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