Global Turnaround Scheduler SME

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Dow has an opening for a Global Turnaround Scheduler SME located in the Gulf Coast Region. This role acts as a technical resource for Scheduling within the Platinum work process. Will be responsible for providing global scheduling expertise, execution support and work process governance across Dow ($900MM annual spend). This role partners closely with OTEC, site turnaround teams, business leadership, and functional stakeholders to ensure strict adherence to global turnaround work processes, scheduling operating discipline/s, and Platinum standards throughout Front-End Loading (FEL) and execution.

The primary objective is to improve turnaround readiness, minimize risk, enhance consistency, and drive successful turnaround outcomes through direct engagement, coaching, assurance activities, and performance oversight to the Scheduling discipline. This role serves as a key resource to help TA teams achieve excellence in scheduling competitiveness and predictability for Dow turnarounds.

• Own and govern Dow's global turnaround scheduling operating discipline, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, work processes, and governance requirements.
• Provide scheduling leadership and support to turnaround teams, particularly for major turnaround events ($30MM+), to improve readiness and execution performance.
• Assess turnaround compliance, readiness, and health throughout FEL and execution phases, identifying risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead and participate in readiness reviews, challenge sessions, and gate reviews to ensure critical deliverables and milestones are achieved before execution.
• Develop recommendations and drive actions to address readiness deficiencies, reduce risk, and improve turnaround outcomes.
• Own the global turnaround scheduler qualification curriculum, supporting training, coaching, mentoring, and scheduler development activities.
• Lead global scheduler networks, promote best practices, and serve as a trusted advisor to turnaround teams throughout the turnaround lifecycle.
• Support turnaround execution by monitoring performance, applying PERA-based risk management principles, resolving critical issues, and enabling decisions that support safety, schedule, cost, quality, and reliability objectives.
• Capture and incorporate lessons learned while driving continuous improvement, standardization, and operational discipline across Dow turnaround processes and governance practices.
• Lead the evaluation of emerging technologies, AI-enabled solutions, benchmarking efforts, and industry best practices to advance turnaround scheduling capability and performance across Dow.

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree plus 5 years of relevant experience OR (in lieu of a degree) 10 years experience in turnaround execution and project controls will be considered.
• Deep knowledge of Primavera, Scheduling software and turnaround work processes.
• Previous experience serving as a master scheduler in a major turnaround is preferred
• Must be willing and able to travel both domestically and…