One of our major oil and gas clients is seeking a TAR Planner and Scheduler to work on a 3-month assignment in their facilities in Monaca, PA.
Summary:
The Turnaround (TAR) Planner/Scheduler is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance, outage, and capital project activities to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective execution. The role develops detailed work packages, resource-loaded schedules, and execution plans while coordinating closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Construction, and Contractor teams. The successful candidate will support project readiness, execution, progress tracking, and schedule optimization throughout the turnaround lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
- Planning of project and turnaround activities for the asset.
- Create and maintain project and outage plans utilizing planning software.
- Plans and prioritizes work for fast and efficient response, effective backlog maintenance and cost control.
- Creates job packs, including all relevant information for job plans.
- Coordinates the development of work orders and schedules with Project, Construction, and Operations and Maintenance personnel.
- Develops and completes weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly look-ahead schedules for expense and upgrade work by working closely with functional supervisors, engineering and technicians.
- Manages the dispatching of work and availability of manpower in coordination with supervision.
- Provides technical support for personnel within the CMMS modules.
- Ensures proper documentation for work orders is in place.
- Identifies material requirements and interfaces with vendor and/or supply chain as needed.
- Assist with development of KPI’s and produce reports on schedule compliance, with emphasis in maintenance/inspection regulatory compliance. This will include analysis of deviations, variations, and trends with graphical representations.
- Requests changes to procedures as required.
- Assists in the writing of procedures as required.
- Recommends and implements training to enhance effectiveness of work activities.
- Assists on budget development as required.
- Additional or other duties will be assigned from time to time by the supervision to meet business needs.
Requirements:
- Minimum High School Diploma or GED. Technical Degree or similar is a plus.
- 5 plus years of maintenance experience in the Oil and Gas, or petrochemical facilities.
- Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA.
- Experience with project planning software such as MS project or Primavera P6
- Strong knowledge and experience in Planning, Scheduling and Execution processes, procedures, and best practices.
- Scheduling of small to medium scale projects.
- Experience with scaffolding, painting, insulating, heavy equipment operation-rigging/lifting crafts, welding, fabrication, machining work estimation and planning.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Ability to prioritize work activities accordingly.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to create a strong team environment.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure in an environment which expects the highest levels of customer services, confidentiality, and ethical behavior.
- Self-starter with ability to work strategically under little direction.
- Ability to focus on meeting/exceeding performance parameters.
- Strong attention to details
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