Turnaround Scheduler

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
• Provide mentoring and coaching to junior peers and counterparts

Requirements:

• Minimum a high school diploma or GED. Degree or PMP a plus but not required.
• 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
• Prior use of IPS is an asset
• Knowledge and experience in the best practices and cycles for Turnaround data communication.
• Background as a pipefitter or boilermaker an asset
• 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