HBM Nigeria Plc, formerly known as Lafarge Africa Plc, is a leading Nigerian building solutions company and a member of the Huaxin Building Materials Group, a globally recognized manufacturer of construction materials founded in 1907 and headquartered in Wuhan, China. Listed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), HBM Nigeria Plc is actively participating in the urbanisation and economic growth of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Coal Power Plant Planner
Location: Ashaka, Gombe
Job Description
- The role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and monitoring preventive and corrective maintenance activities within the Coal Power Plant to ensure equipment reliability, operational efficiency, and plant availability.
- This includes developing maintenance schedules and work packages, coordinating manpower and maintenance resources, and supporting root cause analysis of recurring equipment failures to drive effective corrective actions and continuous improvement.
What you'll be doing
- Plan, coordinate and monitor preventive and corrective maintenance activities for CPP equipment.
- Prepare maintenance work plans and schedules for boilers, turbines, generators, auxiliary pumping systems, diesel generator sets and other plant equipment.
- Coordinate maintenance activities with Operations, Mechanical, Electrical and Instrumentation teams to ensure timely execution, isolation and restoration.
- Ensure work packages are prepared with the required manpower, tools, spares, consumables and technical information.
- Monitor maintenance progress, identify delays and resource constraints, and provide timely status updates to the CPP Manager.
- Plan and coordinate shutdowns, outages and major overhauls, including contractor and specialist support.
- Ensure maintenance activities comply with plant safety standards, pre-task risk assessments and LOTOTO requirements.
- Support RCA/RCFA for repetitive or critical equipment failures and track agreed corrective actions.
- Review equipment history and optimize preventive maintenance schedules to improve equipment reliability and availability.
- Maintain accurate maintenance plans, schedules, work records, backlog information and progress reports.
- Support first-level inspection and reporting of equipment abnormalities and maintenance requirements.
- Promote good maintenance practices, housekeeping and safe working conditions within the plant.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years work experience
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering is required. A professional certificate with COREN or any other Engineering professional certificates will be an added advantage
- Maintenance planning, scheduling and execution
- Knowledge of coal power plant operation and equipment maintenance
- Knowledge of boilers, turbines, generators and auxiliary systems
- Knowledge of basic mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- Work order preparation and maintenance backlog management
- Resources, spare-parts and consumable planning
- Interpretation of engineering drawings and P&IDs
- Ability to monitor maintenance progress and prepare reports
- Knowledge of risk assessment and LOTOTO requirements
- Ability to support RCA/RCFA and troubleshoot equipment failures.