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Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, the Maintenance Planner is responsible for executing the maintenance schedules of the Air Products Barauni facility.

Working with the guidance of the Maintenance Manager and alongside the Shift engineer and Plant Supervisor to ensure the smooth and reliable operation and maintenance of all aspects of the plant, with the aim of achieving the highest plant reliability and availability.

Nature and Scope

The Barauni Plant is Air Products first fully owned and operated plant in India; it represents a significant investment and includes “State of the Art” technology which makes it advanced Hydrogen Plant within the Corporation.

The plant consists of 2 main elements: -

• 1 x Large Technip Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) with Air Products PSA’s for H2 purification.
• An Air Products Air Separation Unit (ASU) Producing Nitrogen

The scope of maintenance for the Production Plants, equipment and associated systems includes: -

• Compressors, Motors, Fans, Pumps (cryogenic and other), Pressure Vessels and piping systems, Relief Valves, Heat exchangers, Furnaces, Burners, Cryogenic turbines, Computer control systems, Trip Systems, Analysis equipment etc.

The customer is Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), Barauni refinery and the Air Products plant is located within the customer’s site. The products from the Air Products plants go directly to the customer as part of their refinery expansion. There is a high level of integration between IOCL and Air Products with respect to feedstock’s, products and utilities. The products are critical to refinery unit operations.

The plants run on continuous basis and there is a strong emphasis of high reliability and high efficiency with contractual penalties against Air Products for underperformance.

Air Products owns, operates and maintains Hydrogen Plants and ASU’s around the globe with Operations in over 50 countries, in excess of 100 hydrogen plants and 350 ASU’s. As such we have a wealth of expertise and have well established work processes in place for the reliable and efficient operation of our plants. The Plant Manger will be expected to work closely with the Global Communities of expertise and ensure consistent compliance with these work processes.

Prior to facility operation the individual will have a period of training before plant commissioning begins, where they will have a role setting up the permanent site maintenance team, establishing site procedures and participating in plant commissioning.

Plant Products (Approximate):

H2:                               50        KTPA                                       

N2:                               4,000    Nm3/h  

Number of Direct Reports (approximate): Nil

• Primarily responsible for the planning of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities for the Air Products Barauni Facility.
• Required to carry out on site assessments of the resources necessary to enable the maintenance team to successfully execute the various maintenance activities. This will include liaising with technical and non-technical departments within Air Products and external contractors. 
• Creating detailed plans, job work scopes, cost estimates and forecasts is an important aspect of this role.
• Expected to have the knowledge, experience and initiative to function in a key role during major planned maintenance shutdowns. 
• Involvement in a variety of other tasks including the co-ordination and execution of reliability and productivity improvement projects.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering with minimum experience of 5 years. (Typically, Mechanical or Electrical).as a hands-on maintenance planning experience in refinery, ammonia, methanol, chemical process, power generation, marine industries or similar.
• Good working knowledge of the maintenance associated with industrial plant equipment such as pressure systems, rotating machinery, instrumentation and electrical systems. 
• Knowledge of MS package such as Word, SAP, Excel, Microsoft project are essential.
• Good Communication & coordination skills.
• Fluent in oral and written English language.
• Knowledge of Hindi will be an added advantage.

We are the world’s largest hydrogen producer with over 80 years of industrial gas experience. We are hydrogen and industrial gas experts delivering safe, end-to-end solutions, investing in real, clean energy projects at scale, and driving the industry forward to generate a cleaner future. 

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