Buckeye Partners, LP

Maintenance Turnaround Planner

Buckeye Partners, LP$80K — $100K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years of planning maintenance and turnaround work in petrochemical or Oil & Gas industries.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office; knowledge of Primavera is a plus.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to engage with diverse teams and contractors.
  • Ability to evaluate scopes, generate resources, and adapt plans based on operational needs.

Responsibilities

  • Review and manage work order backlog for efficiency improvements.
  • Develop comprehensive job plans including special instructions and required resources.
  • Support Priority 1 and 2 orders to ensure critical tasks are prioritized and executed.
  • Field verify and scope work for maintenance and turnaround activities.
  • Coordinate effectively with multiple disciplines including operations and engineering.
  • Manage planning deliverables for multi-block turnaround events.
  • Continuously seek ways to enhance planning efficiency, safety, and cost-effectiveness.

Benefits

  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment with rotating on-call duties.
  • Opportunity for professional growth and skills development in a crucial industry role.
  • Engagement in reliability-driven improvements that impact overall operations.
  • Supportive team environment focused on safety and communication.
  • Flexibility in managing work-life balance with minimal travel requirements.
Full Job Description
Maintenance/TurnaroundPlanner with a minimum of 5 years' experience in executing and planning maintenance and turnaround work with experience in refinery, terminal or pipeline operations to join our team!

Role Summary:

The basic function of this role is to develop planned job packages for maintenance and turnaround repair work and improvement projects based on priorities established by the Operations. The job plans must fully satisfy the notification scope and include all material, services, resources and appropriate scheduling logic between individual operations or tasks. This position must ensure that sufficient amount of work is planned to satisfy production needs.

Responsibilities & Essential Functions include:
  • Participating in the management of notification and work order backlog by:
    • Reviewing backlog and planning list for duplicates
    • Grouping work orders together that can be planned and worked as a single order that optimizes utilization of resources
    • Review Operations planning priority list to ensure unit needs are met
    • Ensuring plans are in place that meet the timing requirements of the units
    • Checking for understanding of scope through notification text and field walk through.
    • Ensuring that order type and maintenance activity types are accurately assigned on the order.
    • Using or creating task lists for repetitive jobs (if applicable)
    • Using BOM's where appropriate.
    • Adjust Basic Start Date to accommodate component lead time and production needs
    • Update planning priorities list
  • Building or copying the job plan that clearly shows:
    • special instructions and required documentation such as MOC information, QC-QA needs, piping schematics, etc.,
    • required skill crafts and duration,
    • specialty tools, equipment,
    • optimal scheduling logic between operations,
    • an operation for capital spare repair, where necessary,
    • reservation or purchase order for necessary components
  • Providing necessary support for Priority 1 and 2 orders as defined by plant specific criteria.
  • Adding steps to order for additional unplanned and discovery scope defined by plant specific criteria.
  • Forwarding job packages to the Contractor and Buckeye Maintenance Supervision.
  • Soliciting feedback on executed jobs plans and making any necessary changes to ensure planning and work efficiencies continue to improve.
  • Provide feedback to the craftsman on planner feedback forms
  • Participating in the identification and implementation of reliability driven improvements
  • Responsible for all planning deliverables for a single block on a multi-block T/A Event
  • Responsible for planning all activities for turnarounds
  • Coordination with numerous other disciplines - operations, engineering, procurement and finance
  • Intimately familiar with all turnaround work processes
  • Responsible for the safety performance of assigned personnel maintenance and or turnaround during execution.
  • Field verifies work described in maintenance and turnaround scope and develops detailed work scope activities, with craft type, materials, estimated hours, and plans.
  • Assesses job to understand the optimal plan to achieve maintenance budget and turnaround premises including low cost and safety performance.
  • Creates bill of material for assigned work, requisitions material, and ensure all material is delivered.
  • Assembles work packages with detailed information for planning and execution. Identification, review, and escalation of high-risk activities.
  • Ensures compliance to plant orders, policies and procedures including, but not limited to MOC, quality, and turnaround addenda processes
  • Works with Scheduler to optimize the master schedule.
  • Completes estimate of Direct Field Labor hours, overheads, materials, and equipment for assigned area.
  • Communicates key issues and risks to the Scheduler, Maintenance Supervisors, Maintenance Manager and Sr. Maintenance Manager.
  • Responsible for update of the schedule for assigned work activities (scheduler will actually input during execution)
  • Management of maintenance and turnaround files and records
  • Provides a critique of maintenance and turnaround activities after completion of project, participates in Lessons Learned and Lookback process.
  • Is mindful of and continues to look for opportunities to reduce maintenance and turnaround scope, and plan and execute with low cost mindset.
  • Rotating on call duty
  • And other duties as assigned.


Position Requirements:
  • Education: High School Diploma
  • Experience: Minimum of 5 years' of planning maintenance and turnaround work experience with emphasis on maintenance and turnaround planning in the petrochemical and/or Oil & Gas Industry preferred.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of software
  • Knowledge of Primavera scheduling software is a plus
  • Working knowledge of I&E (Working knowledge of general maintenance)
  • Strong proficiency in written and verbal communication in the English language
  • Travel Requirements: 10% travel

Certificates & Licenses:
  • None Required

Other Skills, Attributes and Abilities:
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required with the ability to interact with all levels, diverse groups, and people.
  • Ability to communicate with and influence contractors and internal craft workforces

Essential Functions:
  • This position requires the ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and or/quantitative productivity standards.
  • This role requires the ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
  • This position requires compliance with all personnel policies.

Physical & Safety Requirements:
  • This person must meet medical criteria established by OSHA for emergency response.
  • Position may require exposure to adverse weather conditions, hazardous environments and require the physical stamina to climb tanks, work long hours in the field and wear a respirator.
  • Ability to climb tanks, ladders, etc.
  • Ability to work around water.
  • Ability to lift up to 75 lbs.
  • Ability to stand/sit for extended period of time.

About Buckeye Partners, LP

Buckeye Partners, L.P. is a publicly traded master limited partnership that owns and operates a diversified network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. The company was founded in 1886 and has grown through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Today, Buckeye Partners is one of the largest independent liquid petroleum products pipeline operators in the United States, with operations in the East Coast, Midwest, Gulf Coast, and West Coast regions. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BPL.
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