Maintenance Turnaround Planner

BTX Processing
7209 Up River Road
Corpus Christi, TX 78409, USA

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Maintenance/Turnaround Planner 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!

Buckeye is the premier infrastructure and logistics provider for the world’s energy needs, both today and tomorrow. Since 1886, we have successfully navigated transitions in the way energy has been distributed to continually meet the needs of an evolving market and industry environment. Our people are a critical element to the success and longevity of our operational history and our future as we seek to thrive through the energy transition.

We own and operate a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, processing, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. We are committed to safely and responsibly providing world-class service to meet the continually evolving energy needs of our customers and the communities we serve. As part of this commitment to our customers, we are continually diversifying our platform and service offerings to enable less carbon‑intensive energy solutions and undertaking decarbonization efforts on our operations.

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.

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
• 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…