Maintenance Planning Engineer

ContourGlobal, a KKR Company, led by CEO Antonio Cammisecra, is an established Independent Power Producer (IPP) developing, acquiring, and operating electricity generation and storage assets worldwide. The company currently manages 5.3 GW of installed capacity across different power generation technologies and asset categories, with an additional 1 GW of renewables under construction and a further 9.8 GW under development. 

The operational footprint of the company extends to 18 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America. The company has committed to speed up the decarbonization of its portfolio with a sustainable transition of its thermal fleet, the repowering of existing renewable assets and the organic development of new renewable projects. ContourGlobal boasts 20 years of a strong collaboration with communities, institutions, and customers that benefit from its electricity supply through long-term contracts or innovative PPAs, coupled with energy management solutions.

Job Summary:

As Maintenance Planning Engineer, you will join our Maintenance Team, reporting to the Maintenance Manager. This role is responsible for developing, coordinating, and continuously improving the maintenance planning of the power plant, ensuring availability and reliability of gas and steam turbine equipment. This position plays a key role in planning preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance activities, supporting the maintenance and operations teams to achieve established operational goals. Join us to drive the right power forward and make clean energy the natural choice for all!

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for managing and coordinating, through SAP the warehouse infrastructure, inventorying spare parts, consumables, and special tools, supporting the purchase of consumables and spare parts from local and foreign suppliers, and maintaining a minimum stock level in all warehouse items ensuring availability, following established procedures and / or advice received. All this prioritizing the safety of people and equipment through strict compliance with established Plant rules and procedures and environmental protection.

Among its most important tasks include:

• Maintain and update knowledge of technologies associated with gas and steam turbines.
• Possess deep technical understanding of the facility to resolve and provide solutions to issues arising during daily activities.
• Cooperate in designing maintenance programs in coordination with the Operations team, generating procedures aligned with plant objectives.
• Prepare and validate work orders in the Maintenance Management System, including required resources, estimated execution time, work instructions, and corresponding risk analysis.
• Plan daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and long-term maintenance programs, ensuring availability of materials and human resources.
• Manage and continuously improve maintenance procedures and instructions.
• Review weekly the status of critical equipment backlog with Maintenance and Operations Managers.
• Maintain updated statistical information and maintenance history for decision-making, including work orders, spare parts usage, test results, and acceptance criteria.
• Report results of preventive and corrective maintenance, ensuring compliance with established guidelines.
• Coordinate and support planned shutdowns, including preparation, execution, and follow-up.
• Participate in the preparation of the annual maintenance budget.
• Actively engage in emergencies related to daily maintenance activities.
• Ensure proper control and follow-up of corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance, as well as backlog management and prioritization.

Qualifications and Skills:

Your profile is a natural match if you have

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Proficiency in SAP.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar position.
• Strong knowledge of gas and steam turbine systems.
• English Intermediate.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for a matrix organization.
• Cultural awareness, relationship building, and teamwork abilities.
• Motivated self-starter able to work with minimal supervision.
• Result-oriented, with high ethics and personal responsibility.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Our Values

• «We» is our greatest asset
• We respect and protect the environment
• We are doers, committed to doing things right
• We act with integrity and transparency
• We think and act like entrepreneurs

You can find here more about our Purpose, Mission and Values.

Working@CG:

• Benefits above the law.
• As a globally integrated team, we push boundaries, work collaboratively, and remain agile in the pursuit of excellence. With an entrepreneurial mindset, we encourage initiative and innovation. At ContourGlobal you are an employee, and you are also an owner. Our Employee Ownership Program allows our employee-owners to make a difference and drive the right power forward and make clean energy the natural choice for all!
• We foster a culture where individuals are empowered to succeed, contribute and shape the future of sustainable energy.
• Cross-border collaboration shapes our way of working: our diverse workforce reflects the multicultural environment we embrace every day.
• We offer a competitive compensation package: we believe in meritocracy and rewarding meaningful contributions.
• We enjoy making the most of our shared spaces to foster teamwork and collaboration. At the same time, our flexible working policy allows us to prioritize results while supporting wellbeing and a healthy work-life balance.

Interested in joining our company?

We know that skills and experience come in different forms, and we value diverse perspectives.

If you’re excited about this role but you think you still need to learn some of the required skills, we’d still love to hear from you. You are much more than your CV, so come as you are and tell us who you aspire to become! The most important skills are collaboration, respect, trustworthiness and execution. So go ahead—apply, and let’s contribute to the new energy transition together!

ContourGlobal provides equal employment opportunities and maintains a diverse workforce that reflects the rich environment of the society we live in and markets we operate.