Lead SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) Functional Consultant

Location: Houston, TX
Work Model: Onsite – 5 Days per Week
Experience Required: 8+ Years
Industry: Oil & Gas / Refinery / Midstream

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) Functional Consultant to support the operational integration of a newly acquired refinery into existing midstream oil and gas operations.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in designing, configuring, implementing, and optimizing SAP PM processes within the Oil & Gas industry. This role requires deep expertise in integrating SAP PM with Materials Management (MM), Warehouse Management (WM), Finance (FI), and Controlling (CO).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the assessment, design, configuration, and deployment of SAP PM processes for refinery operations.

• Support the integration and standardization of maintenance processes across refinery and midstream assets.

• Design and optimize integration between SAP PM and SAP MM/WM for:

  • MRO procurement

  • Spare parts management

  • Material reservations

  • Goods movements

• Manage integration between SAP PM and FI/CO for:

  • Maintenance cost settlement

  • Maintenance order costing

  • Work center rates

  • CAPEX and OPEX tracking

• Standardize maintenance workflows, including:

  • Preventive maintenance

  • Corrective maintenance

  • Shutdown activities

  • Turnaround and outage management

• Lead SAP PM master data activities, including cleanup, mapping, migration, and validation of:

  • Equipment

  • Functional Locations

  • Bills of Materials (BOMs)

  • Maintenance Plans

  • Task Lists

• Work closely with plant engineers, maintenance teams, operations, supply chain, and finance stakeholders.

• Support change management, user adoption, testing, and deployment activities.

• Provide functional leadership during refinery integration, SAP rollouts, and asset migration initiatives.

• Ensure SAP PM processes align with refinery operations, asset management strategies, and regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of hands-on SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) functional experience.

• Strong experience working in the Oil & Gas industry, preferably within Refining or Midstream operations.

• Strong hands-on experience integrating SAP PM with MM, WM, FI, and CO.

• Experience with refinery asset management and maintenance operations.

• Strong understanding of maintenance planning, execution, and work order management.

• Experience supporting preventive, corrective, shutdown, turnaround, and outage maintenance processes.

• Hands-on experience with SAP PM master data management and migration.

• Experience with SAP implementation, rollout, M&A integration, asset migration, or industrial facility integration projects.

• Strong understanding of maintenance costing, order settlement, CAPEX, and OPEX.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting refinery integration or acquisition-related system integration projects.

• Experience working with pipelines, compressor stations, terminals, or other midstream assets.

• Knowledge of refinery turnaround and shutdown management.

• Experience working directly with engineering, operations, maintenance, supply chain, and finance teams.

Work Requirement

• This is a 100% onsite role in Houston, TX.

• Candidates must be available to work onsite 5 days per week.