Sr Turnaround Planner

• 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 outage work scopes.
• Schedules turnaround meetings and facilitates reviews of and revisions to outage 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 outage 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 for 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 plans.
• Develops detailed outage 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 overall Turnaround project schedule.
• Establishes critical path from oil out to oil in.
• Accesses and analyzes critical path for threats to project success and communicates them accordingly.
• Schedules contractor’s 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.
• Coordinated the pick-up and delivery of items to be worked on by outside ships.
• Develops turnaround AFE's (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.

• Able and willing to work on-site, in-person at the Valero Port Arthur Refinery, required.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• 5 years of planning, project coordination, and/or maintenance experience in refining or a related industry required.
• Experience using computer-based planning and scheduling tools required.
• Experience reading engineering drawings, such as plot plans, piping isometrics, and P&IDs required.
• Experience conducting maintenance planni