- Location: LA / TX: Louisiana Candidates Preferred (possibly travel East Coast)
- Position Type: Hybrid (Remote/On-site TAR Support)
- Hours: M-F 5/8s during planning/scheduling phase, 7/12s during TA execution (Approx 30 days)
- Compensation: $50 hourly
- Benefits: PTO, Health Benefits, and 401(k)
- TWIC Required
- OSHA Basic Required (Safety)
Key Responsibilities
Schedule Development
- Develop and maintain detailed turnaround schedules using Primavera P6.
- Create integrated schedules combining maintenance, operations, and capital project scope.
- Build logic-driven schedules with accurate activity sequencing and dependencies.
- Incorporate scope changes, discovery work, and execution updates into the schedule.
- Establish schedule baseline and track progress against original plan.
- Conduct critical path and near-critical path analysis.
Turnaround Preparation
- Collaborate with turnaround planners and turnaround event manager to ensure all work packages are incorporated into the schedule.
- Verify equipment readiness, permits, and resource requirements.
- Participate in scope challenge and scope freeze processes.
- Support worklist prioritization and schedule optimization initiatives and assist in developing milestone schedules.
- Update schedules daily during turnaround execution.
- Monitor actual progress and analyze schedule performance.
- Identify schedule risks, delays, and recovery opportunities.
- Facilitate daily schedule review meetings with stakeholders.
- Prepare look-ahead schedules for operations, maintenance, and contractors.
- Recommend schedule recovery plans when required.
- Provide labor loading and manpower forecasting.
- Analyze craft utilization and productivity trends.
- Assist in shift planning and work execution sequencing.
- Participate in post-turnaround reviews and benchmarking activities.
- Recommend scheduling best practices and process improvements.
- Develop and maintain scheduling standards, procedures, and templates.
- Support implementation of digital turnaround management tools.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of scheduling experience in industrial maintenance, projects, or turnarounds utilizing Oracle Primavera.
- Experience in refinery, petrochemical, chemical manufacturing, power generation, mining, or heavy industrial environments preferred.
- Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale turnarounds, shutdowns, or outages.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6.
- Understanding of Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling.
- Knowledge of resource loading and schedule risk analysis techniques.
Work Hours
- Typical work week is 40 hours with 60+ hours per week during turnaround execution.
- Travel 25% may be required across the U.S.
- The work environment is diverse from an office setting to onsite at Air Products operating facilities.