Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
5+ years of turnaround planning experience in the chemical/oil/gas industry.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Proficient in MS Office, especially MS Project.
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under pressure.
Team-oriented with a focus on building positive relationships.
Willingness to travel to West Coast and Mid-West sites.
Responsibilities
Lead the Turnaround Execution Team in developing pre-plans and schedules.
Manage costs and schedules throughout all phases of Turnaround events.
Participate in scope development and estimating for Turnarounds.
Facilitate execution of the Turnaround schedule, including planning and engineering.
Review equipment conditions to target critical reliability issues in repair scopes.
Provide planning support to various sites as needed.
Organize and allocate resources for the Turnaround schedule.
Optimize schedules to identify critical paths and achieve targets.
Assist in identifying and recommending improvements for 'discovery' repair scopes.
Coordinate meetings with Plant Operations, Maintenance, and Capital teams.
Determine and monitor manpower levels to meet schedule milestones.
Integrate capital project schedules into the master Turnaround schedule and oversee daily expectations.
Communicate Environmental and Safety Plans to execution resources.
Benefits
Opportunity to lead and influence change in a dynamic environment.
Engagement with cross-functional teams to enhance collaboration.
Exposure to diverse projects across the West Coast and Mid-West.
Professional development opportunities in a specialized field.
Supportive work culture focused on teamwork and accountability.
Full Job Description
Position Summary:
The Enterprise Turnaround Planner (West Coast/Mid-West) will provide technical leadership, focusing on equipment reliability along with proactive and predictive maintenance best practices. They are there to be a change agent, inspire discipline, efficiency, and accountability to the Turnaround and maintenance workforce in the overall execution of day to day Turnaround and maintenance activities.
What you will be doing:
Lead Turnaround Execution Team to develop all turnaround pre-plans and schedules.
Manage Turnaround cost and schedule during all phases of the event: before, during, and after.
Participate in the scope development and estimating for Turnarounds.
Facilitate the execution of the Turnaround schedule (scoping process, planning, scheduling, and engineering).
Review critical equipment operating conditions to ensure turnaround repair scopes are targeting critical reliability issues.
Provide Turnaround Planning support to sites as necessary.
Organize Turnaround schedule with appropriate resources allocated.
Optimize Turnaround schedule to identify critical path and then execute plan to achieve established targets (timing and costs).
Assist with Turnaround "discovery" repair scopes and make recommendations to ensure reliability and life cycle costs are sustained/improved.
Schedule and facilitate TA coordination. Schedule meetings with Plant Operations, Maintenance and Capital in accordance with ECO Services Pre-TAR Guidelines.
Determine manpower levels to attain schedule milestones and monitor manpower levels and craft mixes to ensure conformance to the Turnaround Plan.
Ensure all capital project schedules are integrated into the master Turnaround project schedule and conduct daily capital project expectations during the Turnaround to ensure capital project completions within the defined Turnaround schedule.
Communicate Environmental and Safety Plan to Turnaround execution resources.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Min of 5 plus years of experience working as a turnaround planner within the chemical/oil/gas industry.
Demonstrate strong (written and verbal) communication, customer service, and decision-making skills.
Possess competent computer skills with working knowledge of MS Office programs with primary focus on MS Project and associated tools.
Be a team player and build productive and positive working relationships with cross-functional teams.
Handle multiple projects simultaneously.
Works well under pressure - ability to meet tight deadlines with quality results.
Must be able to travel to sites in the West Coast and Mid-West area.
