Maintenance Planner / Scheduler at Habrams Energy Services

Habrams Energy offers you engineering, procurement, construction management, operations, and maintenance services for oil & gas projects in the Gulf of Guinea. We provide specialist solutions to international oil companies, marginal field operators, and service companies.

Our work ranges from retrofitting and de-bottlenecking to designing complete facilities – with seamless transition from construction to operations.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Maintenance Planner / Scheduler

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Planner / Scheduler to take ownership of planning and scheduling all maintenance activities, ensuring safety, efficiency, and optimal resource utilization across operations.

Role Overview

• The Maintenance Planner / Scheduler will play a critical role in ensuring that all maintenance and turnaround activities are carefully planned, scheduled, and executed safely and efficiently.
• The role requires strong coordination across operations, execution teams, procurement, and contractors, with a clear focus on SHE compliance, cost control, and schedule integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure safety remains the highest priority in all maintenance and turnaround planning and scheduling activities.
• Collaborate with core teams and work teams to develop detailed job plans, schedules, cost estimates, and resource requirements for routine and complex maintenance work.
• Plan and coordinate maintenance activities during turnaround windows, managing both critical and sub-critical paths.
• Apply advanced planning, scheduling, and estimating tools to optimize work execution.
• Resolve scheduling conflicts, resource constraints, and sequencing challenges to maintain schedule integrity.
• Track scope changes, field orders, and cost impacts, ensuring alignment with approved work plans and budgets.
• Coordinate closely with Operations, Execution Leads, Schedulers, and Procurement to ensure:
• Equipment readiness and permitting
• Timely availability of materials and contracts
• Appropriate labor crew composition and construction equipment support
• Develop comprehensive job packs and support contractor interfaces to ensure smooth execution.
• Provide leadership in work team meetings by removing barriers, stewarding action items, and maintaining alignment between cost profiles, work plans, and estimates.

Skills & Qualifications

• Previous experience in a closely related maintenance planning/scheduling role
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (relevant discipline), appropriate professional certification(s), or equivalent practical experience
• Strong understanding of SHE requirements, maintenance work selection criteria, norms estimating, procurement practices, and business controls
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and relevant planning/scheduling software
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly present recommendations to management
• Proven ability to perform effectively under tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and shifting priorities
• Demonstrated leadership and coordination skills within cross-functional teams.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.