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Mainteance planner vs Project planner

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Ilkin Nagiyev
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Hi, Everybody,

my question is to guys who have an experince in both, maintenance and project planning, is it very different subjects or at the end of day they are much more similar,

I am doing mainteance planning, shutdown and small modifications projects mainly, I’d like to apply for project planner positions, and actually I’ve done some but unsuccessfuly, now trying to find out the reason

many thanks

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Abhijit Kale
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hahhaha,

Hi shagger,
is this in Nepal???


cheers,
abhi
smiling shagger
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i was asked to attend to a situation some while ago, where leaking sink appeared at the premises. i told the lady that what she actually need is not a planner but a plumber.
Qiu Wei
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i do mainteance planner in the first 2 years of my career , now transfer to project planner /scheduler at 3 years ago .
Dieter Wambach
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Hi Ilkin

If you’ll study some of the threads especially under this topic you’ll find some agents.
Most difficult will be a work permit. Germany is extremely restrictive for all persons from outside European Community/Union - even against Poland, who is a member. We have no chance to hire people from outside!
More liberal seem - my impression - UK, Ireland and Spain,; France just for their former colonies.
Best market for you seems the UAE.
Good luck
Dieter
Ilkin Nagiyev
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Dieter,

thank you so much for your response. I am trying to find job through internet, I applied for planner positions in oil&gas industry, where most of the positions are related to project and construction. I have got only 5 years experince, last 4 of them are in oil&gas industry, and it is very strong experince. However I have not got any positive pesponse from applications I have done, I saw in your profile you are also in oil&gas, could you please recommend any agencies or web sites?

regards

Ilkin
Dieter Wambach
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Hi Ilkin

for my impression, maintenance planning is hard:
- shorter projects
- many the same time
- strong focus on resource planning
- big risk for interrupts - emergency cases, which remove personnel from planned activities

Shutdown-/ Turnaround-planning:
- Ten thousands of activities in some weeks/days
- Big risk for surprises
- Additional infrastructure, many additional persons, equipments....
- Simulations required before start

For both, your working place in inside the plant.

Projects (new buildings, plants...):
- Bigger
- More time for planning
- More time during project

Your working place is within an administration building.

So, it’s a very different style of planning. Both are challenging.

Why do you want to change? Maybe your reasons didn’t convince HR.

Regards

Dieter