One of our major oil and gas clients is seeking a Turnaround Lead Scheduler to work on a 12 - month assignment in their facilities in Superior, WI.
Summary:
The Turnaround Lead Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing detailed schedules for plant turnarounds, outages, and events. Beyond technical expertise, the Turnaround Scheduler must foster a culture of teamwork, accountability, and respect. The role calls for someone who builds trust through communication and collaboration, helping drive solutions rather than simply identifying problems.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the development and optimization of detailed, resource-loaded, logic-driven schedules.
- Formalizes turnaround shutdown and start up logic and schedules in Primavera software.
- Develops conceptual turnaround schedules.
- Inputs and reviews field planning data into the schedule.
- Determines and ties internal and external logic.
- Completes schedule data entry check list per job package.
- Updates and forecasts the turnaround schedule to plan.
- Solicits plan and schedule suppositions from turnaround management and tests hypotheses.
- Advises turnaround management of opportunities and risks within the plan and schedule and makes recommendations to capitalize on or mitigate them as appropriate.
- Leads schedule review exercises with core planning team.
- Leads contractor schedule reviews and contractor schedule integration process.
- Prepares user friendly schedule format.
- Prepares user friendly shift and three-day look ahead schedules during the turnaround execution.
- Manages schedule progress and change during turnaround execution.
- Generates turnaround reports for progress as needed.
Requirements:
- Minimum a high school diploma or GED.
- The candidate will be responsible for a lot of quality control on the step outs, and will require a strong turnaround background.
- The candidate will be building a schedule in a new P6 database. Experience with initial turnaround scheduling setups is a significant advantage.
- Minimum 8-10 years building and executing complex turnaround or outage schedules, in Oil and Gas, LNG, or chemical facilities.
- Experience as a Turnaround Planner is required.
- In-depth Primavera Project Management P6 knowledge is required.
- Strong experience level using Microsoft Office Suite.
- Knowledge and experience in the best practices and cycles for Turnaround data communication..
Skills
- Strong leadership and organizational skills.
- Strong planning and scheduling skills, able to track multiple activities with a high degree of accuracy.
- Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills. Able to adapt and work in a fluid work environment which expects high level of customer services, confidentiality, and integrity.
- Capable of setting high standards and promoting continuous improvement.
- Able to establish a mutually respectful relationship with management, peers and the various facility level workers who are all essential to ensuring successful events.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to junior peers and counterparts.
Preferred Qualification:
- Degree or PMP a plus but not required.
- Prior use of IPS is an asset.
- Background as a pipefitter or boilermaker an asset.