UNITED STEEL INDUSTRIAL CO.

Electrical Planner - Maintenance

UNITED STEEL INDUSTRIAL CO.  •  State of Kuwait (Onsite)  •  6 days ago
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Job Description

-Plan preventive, predictive, breakdown, condition-based, shutdown, and corrective maintenance schedules for electrical and electronic systems.

-Prepare work orders, spare parts requests, and electrical documentation in coordination with operations and engineering teams.

-Coordinate with production, maintenance, and safety departments to align electrical maintenance plans with operational requirements and minimize downtime.

-Lead the planning, scheduling, and resource coordination of equipment improvement, modification, and redesign activities, including minor projects and reliability initiatives, ensuring work readiness, material availability, manpower allocation, and integration with maintenance and production plans

-Support maintenance activities across different plants or areas, including planning, coordination, and scheduling of centralized or shared-service initiatives for standardized electrical equipment, promoting best practices, technical consistency, and efficient use of internal resources.

-Authorize routine maintenance activities and control shift-level documentation to ensure accuracy and compliance.

-Guide technicians in proper documentation, SAP entry, reporting, and safe use of electrical systems.

-Ensure accurate and timely maintenance planning data in SAP, including work orders, task lists, materials, and maintenance plans. Maintain data integrity to support reliable scheduling, backlog management, and continuous optimization of preventive maintenance plans.

-Track electrical maintenance records, test reports, and completed work orders to verify compliance with standards and maintenance KPIs.

-Review material requests, consumption, and feedback reports to ensure effective maintenance planning.

-Prepare and update master data for all electrical equipment through SAP, ensuring data integrity and standardization.

-Prepare weekly, monthly, and annual electrical maintenance performance reports for review by department management.

-Report backlog status, planning performance, and highlight opportunities for process and cost improvement.

-Provide planning-based input to support maintenance cost analysis, resource allocation decisions, and continuous improvement initiatives, using SAP data and planning metrics to identify efficiency and optimization opportunities.
-Optimize maintenance resource utilization and cost efficiency through effective planning, balancing internal labor, contractors, materials, and equipment availability, and supporting cost control, budget adherence, and maintenance cost optimization initiatives.

-Prepare, release, and monitor purchase requisitions, service requests, job orders, and material entries through SAP (Materials Management module).

-Prepare technical evaluations for purchase of materials, spares, and electrical consumables as per company policy.

Preferred Experience:
  • Diploma: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience rolling mills or heavy industry operations with at least 4 years of electrical/electronic maintenance planning in rolling mills or similar and minimum of 2 years supervisory role.
  • Bachelor’s Degree: Minimum 5 years of experience in stell industry or heavy industry operations with at least 2 years of electrical/electronic maintenance planning in rolling mills or similar and minimum of 2 years supervisory role.
  • Practical exposure to weekly down-day planning, annual shutdown preparation, and coordination of spares, contractors, and services for electrical and automation maintenance.
  • Prior hands-on use of SAP or CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) (advantage).
  • Exposure to KPI tracking, energy monitoring, testing instruments, and automation systems.
Job-Specific Skills:
  • Working knowledge of electrical systems, PLC’s, drives, motors, and instrumentation.
  • Ability to schedule and track preventive and corrective maintenance.
  • Competence in work order systems, spare parts planning, and technical reporting.
  • Familiarity with plant electrical safety standards, safety requirements and work permit systems.
  • Ability to review and optimize schedules and resource utilization.
  • Strong Knowledge of SAP PM and MM Modules.
  • Strong adherence to Quality (IMS/ISO) & Plant Safety Standards, SOPs, risk prevention measures, and emergency procedures.
  • Effective communication, coordination, basic problem-solving, and reporting skills for workshop and maintenance operations.
UNITED STEEL INDUSTRIAL CO.

About UNITED STEEL INDUSTRIAL CO.

United Steel Industrial Company (Kuwait Steel) was established in 1996 by Kuwaiti investors.In the four years that followed Kuwait Steel in collaboration with VOEST Alpine of Austria erected the first fully automated rolling mill in Kuwait. Its first rolling mill, which is built on a 40,000 square meter land area, has an annual production capacity of 750,000 metric tons of reinforcing steel bars with sizes ranging from 8mm to 40mm in diameter. Today, Kuwait Steel is composed of two rolling mill plants with a combined annual production capacity of 1.4 million metric tons and a steel making plant that produces 1.2 million metric tons per year. All steel plants are running full production capacities, catering to market demand.

Industry
Oil, Gas & Mining
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Kuwait City, KW
Year Founded
1996
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