TAR Scheduler

Salary:
Dependent on skills, qualifications and experience.

Contract type:
Permanent.

Location:

Grangemouth, United Kingdom. Full‑time, Permanent.

A truly global company, INEOS comprises numerous businesses with sites in countries throughout the world. We also encompass a wide range of consumer brands and sports interests.

Grangemouth remains one of INEOS’ key sites in the UK and is home to world‑scale manufacturing plants – offering a unique environment in which to grow your skills, knowledge and competencies within the petrochemical sector.

We are engineering a strong future for our site, based on a highly skilled, experienced workforce and a portfolio of essential products that underpin a sustainable, low‑carbon future. We are entrepreneurial, striving to improve energy efficiency, develop new ways of working and deliver on net zero promises, and we’re proud to do this in Scotland.

We believe in offering our employees true autonomy and empowerment, with a working environment that creates opportunities for all to achieve their potential and have a fulfilling career. We’re looking for committed and talented people to join our teams to realise our ambitions and shape the future.

As a TAR Scheduler you will develop, monitor and update detailed TAR plans. You will also develop and apply common programme coding structures across future TARs.

• Ensure all planned work is on the TAR Execution Plan (TEP). All activities and resources included.
• Maintain consistency of planning/scheduling approach across all TARs and deliver accurate forecasting of INEOS and third‑party resource demand.
• Schedule 400-2500 workpacks per TAR.
• Share knowledge and experience with other planner/schedulers.
• Deliver effective TAR programmes and ensure timely development to required detail.
• Work with workpack planners, engineering and operations to define accurate, deliverable activities.
• Clearly identify and articulate TAR critical paths, milestones, risks and contingencies.
• Monitor programme execution and update programme for progress.
• Participate in TAR progress meetings to extract information for updating programmes.
• Ensure contractor planning/scheduling realistic and deliverable.

Note:

The role may involve periods of inconvenience to support planned and unplanned plant outages.

Required qualifications and experience

• HNC or equivalent in project management or engineering discipline, or suitable relevant experience in a petrochemical/manufacturing environment.
• Expert understanding of planning tools/software such as Primavera, SAP, and Maximo.
• Planning and organisation skills with ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to follow and implement company planning processes.
• Effective communication across all organisational levels.
• Logical, proactive, and methodical problem‑solving.
• Data analysis and reporting skills with clear recommendations.
• Enthusiastic, highly motivated, and flexible.
• Commitment to SHE performance improvement.

• 34 days holiday (optional salary sacrifice to purchase up to 5 extra days)
• Benefits platform – access to discounts, discounted private medical insurance, travel insurance, etc.
• Employee referral bonus opportunity.
• Scottish Widows contributory pension with employer contributions.
• Free on‑site gym.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Enhanced maternity leave.
• Salary sacrifice car and cycle‑to‑work scheme.

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and encourage diversity. We are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees and to provide reasonable adjustments for all protected characteristics during application, assessment and onboarding stages.