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Mechanical Planner

Ketjen Corporation
Pasadena, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 12/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/15/2026
Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company’s and customers’ futures?

If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.

Ketjen Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Albemarle Corporation, is is seeking a Maintenance Planner to support our Catalyst Business in Bayport, TX. As the Maintenance Planner you will be responsible for developing detailed job packages for all repair and turnaround efforts. In this role you will report to the Area Maintenance Supervisor.

Mission:

  • Manage on a daily basis the safe, the cost effective execution of routine maintenance work, including any deviations to work schedules.
  • Ensure all improvements in the work execution process are clearly communicated and implemented.

Main Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

  • Provide detailed job plans that insure safe and efficient execution of all maintenance jobs.
  • Manage the unplanned work order backlog by:
    • Review incoming work notifications for clarity and accurate definition
    • Review backlog and planning list
    • Group notifications together that can be planned and worked as a single order
  • Coordination of job plans to meet the timing requirements of production.
  • Develop or copy the work order job plan and clearly document required skill crafts, duration, specialty tools and necessary equipment.
  • Build the job plan library, including ensuring accurate plans exist for high-frequency jobs.
  • Continually update job plans to ensure necessary changes or improvements are incorporated, and efficiencies are captured.
  • Change the status of planned jobs to ready to schedule (R status) once completed.
Accountabilities:

  • Number of Jobs in Job Plan library.
  • Planned vs. Actual Hours.
  • Quality of Job Plans (per feedback).
  • Work Orders planned per week.
  • Backlog of unplanned work orders.

Education and Experience:

  • High School diploma or equivalent.
  • Combined experience of 10 years in or supervising a mechanical craft (pipefitter, welder, millwright, boilermaker, etc.) and/or mechanical craft field planning/Turnaround planning position.

Benefits Of Joining Ketjen

  • Competitive compensation
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the POTENTIAL of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.

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