Turnaround Planner

The Lead Planner is responsible for developing, integrating, and controlling the turnaround project. This role provides planning leadership across all phases of the turnaround lifecycle—from early scope development through execution and closeout—ensuring engagement from stakeholders and extensive communication. This position is well-suited for candidates with a strong project management background who excel at coordinating multidisciplinary teams and driving execution readiness in high-risk, time-critical environments.

Prior refinery or industrial experience is beneficial but not required.

• Lead development of the integrated turnaround master schedule, including all disciplines, contractors, and support activities
• Translate approved scope into logical, executable work plans
• Coordinate with operations, maintenance, engineering, inspection, and contractors to ensure work readiness
• Establish planning standards and work breakdown structures (WBS)
• Identify planning-driven risks and key execution dependencies
• Support scope reviews and readiness reviews
• Support change management by evaluating impacts of scope changes
• Ensure alignment between scope, cost, resources, and execution plans
• Participate in post-turnaround reviews and capture lessons learned

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Bachelor’s degree preferred

• 8-10 years related experience is preferred; however, we will consider individuals who have no direct turnaround experience and would expect the pay for these candidates to be reflective of this (please see note in additional position requirements section for expected range for someone with no direct TA experience)
• Experience leading planning or coordination for complex projects, shutdowns, outages, or major events
• Strong project management fundamentals (scope, risk, and change control)
• Familiarity with planning and scheduling tools preferred (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project, or IPS)
• Ability to integrate inputs from multiple stakeholders and disciplines
• Strong organizational, communication, and facilitation skills
• Experience working in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
• Ability to challenge assumptions and drive planning discipline
• Industrial, manufacturing, construction, energy, or infrastructure experience is a plus
• Turnaround, outage, or shutdown experience preferred but not required

Contract duration: 1 year.

Work schedule:

40 hours/week, but during execution individual will be expected to work 7-13s.

Role will be onsite in Superior, WI.

We are looking for local candidates at this time; there will be no per diem for this role.