Mechanical Planner - Austin Industrial (La Porte, TX)

About Austin Industrial

 Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. 

To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial. 

Planner

This individual will be responsible for planning and scheduling preparation, analysis, updates, progress reporting, as-built schedules, recovery schedules, technical support, and tracking earned value on projects. Additional duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide resources for support, training, and schedule maintenance


• Develop work packages through job walks


• Assist projects in establishing baseline schedules, updates, documentation, and modifications


• Produce or support development of preliminary bid schedules to identify bidding advantages and ensure quality


• Design project schedules and contract agreements, maintain data integrity throughout the project lifecycle, and prepare reports for client support


• Generate monthly status reports for upper management detailing key schedule information and changes from the previous month


• Provide schedule narratives to explain weekly discrepancies


• Support schedule and time impact analysis exercises


• Plan pump maintenance and repairs accurately


• Understand industry QC and safety standards


• Skilled in pipe and millwright work


• Plan and Schedule Maintenance: Develop and implement maintenance schedules for preventive and corrective tasks to ensure all equipment is properly maintained and operational. Resource Coordination: Allocate resources such as tools, parts, and personnel for maintenance tasks, ensuring that technicians have what they need to complete their work effectively.
  Inventory Management: Monitor and manage the inventory of spare parts and materials, coordinating with procurement to ensure availability for scheduled maintenance.
  Data Management: Maintain and update records within a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), including work orders and asset history.
  Collaboration: Work closely with production and operations departments to schedule maintenance activities in a way that minimizes disruption to operations.
  Problem Anticipation: Identify potential issues before they arise and develop strategies to mitigate risks associated with equipment failures or maintenance delays.


• Other duties as assigned


• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industries is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education: No minimum requirement

Experience: Minimum 4 years in industrial planning and scheduling

Certifications/Licenses: A Valid TWIC Card and Driver’s License.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement). 

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company. 

Accessibility Note

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