Onsite Refinery Turnaround Scheduler

• Full-time
• Department:
  Energy and natural resources

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experiencedTurnaround Schedulerthat will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing detailed schedules for plant turnarounds, outages, and events. The role calls for someone who builds trust through communication and collaboration, helping drive solutions rather than simply identifying problems.

Project/Program specifications:

• Preference for local candidates but will also consider non-local (non-local candidates will receive $178/calendar day per diem).
• Projected start date of January 2026, 1 year contract duration
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  Work schedule:
  
  40 hours/week, but during execution individual will be expected to work 7-13s
• Role will be onsite in Superior, WI

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development and optimization of detailed, resource-loaded, logic-driven schedules
• Formalizes turnaround shutdown and start up logic and schedules in Primavera software
• Inputs and reviews field planning data into the schedule
• Determines and ties internal and external logic
• Completes schedule data entry check list per job package
• Updates and forecasts the turnaround schedule to plan
• Solicits plan and schedule suppositions from turnaround management and tests hypotheses
• Advises turnaround management of opportunities and risks within the plan and schedule and makes recommendations to capitalization or mitigate them as appropriate
• Leads schedule review exercises with core planning team
• Leads contractor schedule reviews and contractor schedule integration process
• Prepares user friendly schedule format
• Prepares user friendly shift and three-day look ahead schedules during the turnaround execution
• Manages schedule progress and change during turnaround execution
• Generates turnaround reports for progress as needed
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Education

• Minimum a high school diploma or GED. Degree or PMP a plus but not required.

Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 8-10 years building and executing complex turnaround or outage schedules, in Oil and Gas, LNG, or chemical facilities
• Experience as a Turnaround Planner is required
• In-depth Primavera Project Management P6 knowledge is required
• Strong experience level using Microsoft Office Suite
• Prior use of IPS is an asset
• Knowledge and experience in the best practices and cycles for Turnaround data communication.
• Background as a pipefitter or boilermaker an asset

Skills

• Strong leadership and organizational skills
• Strong planning and scheduling skills, able to track multiple activities with a high degree of accuracy
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills. Able to adapt and work in a fluid work environment which expects high level of customer services, confidentiality, and integrity
• Capable of setting high standards and promoting continuous improvement
• Able to establish a mutually respectful relationship with management, peers and the various facility level workers who are all essential to ensuring successful events
• Provide mentoring and coaching to junior peers and counterparts

* On-site presence and requirements…