Sr. Turnaround Planner

Job Description - Sr. Turnaround Planner (26001AK)

Valero is the best-in-class producer of essential fuels and products that are foundational to modern life. We invite you to join our ~10,000 employees to drive exceptional results for our company, the energy industry and our community.

Responsible for planning, estimating, and scheduling maintenance turnarounds, emergency events, major maintenance, catalyst change-outs, and capital work scope integration within turnarounds. Coordinates and oversees the work of supporting third-party planners. Coordinates service contractors and procures materials for both capital and maintenance work.

• Coordinates efforts among Refinery Inspection, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, Project Engineering, Technical Support, Instrument and Electrical and Rotating Equipment Groups to produce and manage comprehensive turnaround work scopes.
• Schedules turnaround meetings and facilitates reviews of and revisions to turnaround work lists.
• Adheres to the Valero Turnaround Excellence Process (VTEP), including milestone compliance and use of all applicable workbench modules and applications.
• Reviews all turnaround jobs in the field.
• Develops step-by-step resource-loaded job plans for all turnaround work.
• Produces work packages to issue to contractors including work lists, work scopes, schedules, specifications, drawings, procedures, blind lists, and material lists to aid in estimating and executing planned work scope.
• Determines manpower levels for supporting third-party or craft specific planners and oversees their work, tracking performance against the agreed KPIs.
• Reviews and approves detailed job packages developed by supporting planners to ensure relevant content, required information, and alignment with environmental and safety procedures.
• Develops indirect plans to support the turnaround, including equipment rentals, supervision, support staffing, and logistics planning.
• Develops detailed turnaround cost estimates using the appropriate VTEP modules and applications to support budgeting and funding.
• Builds or modifies work breakdown structures and work activities in a scheduling software (Primavera P6), assigns resources, work order numbers, shift calendars, project codes, layouts, and structures custom reports.
• Integrates engineered capital project work into the overall turnaround project schedule.
• Establishes the critical path from oil out to oil in.
• Assesses and analyzes the critical path for threats to project success and communicates them accordingly.
• Schedules contractors' scope and unit systems within the critical path window.
• Levels resources and develops manpower levels for service contractors and Valero maintenance crafts.
• Develops contingency plans to mitigate risks or exposures.
• Coordinates service contractors for both capital and maintenance turnaround work.
• Procures materials for both capital and maintenance turnaround work.
• Coordinates the pickup and delivery of items to be worked on by outside shops.
• Develops turnaround AFEs (Authorization for Expenditure) and portions of the turnaround Decision Review Board (DRB) package.
• Monitors costs, contractor headcount, and goods receipts during turnarounds.
• Facilitates and documents lessons learned reviews implementing them on future projects.
• Maintains electronic and hard copy records for all turnaround information.
• Proficient and available to cover for Maintenance Supervisors when needed.
• Other duties may be assigned.

This position is salaried exempt status, which means you are not eligible for overtime pay.

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 5 years of planning, project coordination, and/or maintenance experience in refining or a related industry required.
• Experience…