Senior Planning Engineer

About the role

The Senior Planning Engineer will lead work and outage management processes across the cluster, driving continuous improvement, cost‑driven value creation and ensuring the fleet ranks in the top global quartile throughout the project lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor and report cluster KPIs monthly, quarterly and yearly, prepare action plans to close gaps and ensure timely corrective actions.
• Implement and oversee maintenance planning, outage management and corporate procedures, ensuring alignment with EPRI, SCD and SPOF mitigation guidelines.
• Drive continuous improvement of maintenance programs, optimize planned maintenance based on asset criticality and standardise practices across clusters.
• Coordinate spares inventory, BOM availability and support the spares replenishment process with SCM.
• Lead project mobilisation, lifecycle maintenance planning and technical risk register reviews for new builds.
• Prepare and monitor maintenance budgets, analyse cost variances and contribute to cluster P&L improvement.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 7‑10 years of experience in power/utilities industry with strong O&M background.
• Proven experience in performance management, KPI monitoring and decision‑making in ambiguous environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Required skills

• Maintenance planning and scheduling (CMMS)
• Outage management procedures
• EPRI guidelines and PMBD
• Spare parts inventory management
• Budget preparation and cost variance analysis