Midstream Turnaround Planner III

Job Title: Midstream Turnaround Planner III
Duration: 1 year, with potential for extension
Schedule: 5/40
Location: Houston, TX 
Up to 70% travel, based on assignment and workload

Travel Locations: Onsite work may be required at various locations, including New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Central Texas.

We are seeking an experienced Turnaround Planner to support Midstream turnaround, shutdown, outage, and major maintenance activities. This position will be responsible for developing detailed work packages, defining execution strategies, coordinating planning activities, and supporting turnaround readiness and execution across Midstream facilities.

The Turnaround Planner will work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, Engineering, contractors, and vendors to ensure work scope is fully developed and ready for safe and efficient execution.

This role requires significant travel to Midstream facilities, potentially up to 70%, depending on assignment and workload.


Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed turnaround work packages for maintenance, inspection, and capital project activities.
• Review and validate turnaround scope with Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, and Engineering stakeholders.
• Conduct field walk-downs to define work scope, verify job requirements, and identify execution constraints.
• Develop job plans including labor requirements, materials, equipment, tools, permits, and contractor support needs.
• Create and maintain detailed work instructions for turnaround execution.
• Identify required materials and coordinate procurement activities to ensure availability before execution.
• Develop equipment isolation plans and support lockout/tagout (LOTO) planning activities.
• Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance teams to ensure work scope is adequately prepared and execution-ready.
• Support contractor planning efforts and ensure contractor requirements are incorporated into work packages.
• Participate in turnaround planning meetings, readiness reviews, risk assessments, and execution meetings.
• Identify planning risks, scope gaps, resource constraints, and potential execution issues.
• Assist in developing contingency plans for high-risk or complex work activities.
• Maintain planning documentation throughout turnaround planning, execution, and closeout phases.
• Capture lessons learned and support post-turnaround reviews.
• Travel to Midstream facilities as required.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience planning industrial turnarounds, shutdowns, outages, or major maintenance work.
• Strong experience developing turnaround work packages and execution plans.
• Experience conducting field walk-downs and scope development activities.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning principles and turnaround best practices.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary maintenance, inspection, engineering, contractor, and vendor activities.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, P&IDs, equipment specifications, and maintenance procedures.
• Strong knowledge of safe work practices, permitting processes, and isolation planning.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work in both office and field environments.
• Ability to travel extensively to Midstream facilities as required.
• Ability to wear required PPE and comply with site-specific safety requirements.
• Possess a TWIC card or be able to obtain one prior to required site travel.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting refinery, petrochemical, pipeline, terminal, Midstream, or similar industrial operations.
• Experience with SAP PM, Maximo, or other computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
• Prior IPS ToadFly experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale turnaround execution activities.