Turnaround Lead

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From creating solutions to deliver clean water, secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for.

Key Responsibilites of Role: 

• Accountable to know what industry accepted "Top Quartile" is for their area of responsibility an accountable for driving towards that level of performance, including annualized cost, duration, and scoping. This includes identifying and sponsoring capital projects to improve the maintainability to the units.
• Works closely with (partners with) the Site Maintenance Manager to ensure that appropriate resources are dedicated to the planning and execution of the High Complexity TA.
• Accountable for the safety performance of all personnel on assigned events.
• Responsible for delivery of the T/A event within approved premises. Delivery includes predictability within a competitive cost structure.
• Development of premises for assigned turnaround and delivery of those premises (with Steering Team), including proposed turnaround duration and cost targets and gap to potential closure plans
• Actively contributes and sponsors the development of the turnaround contracting strategy.
• Partners with Operations organization and support groups for scope definition
• Accountable for planning and execution of assigned turnaround events(s)
• Ensures that consistent planning premises are incorporated into the planning process – estimating tools, productivity factors, etc.
• Ensure all work is captured in frozen TA scope – maintenance, inspection, local and major capital projects, turnaround projects, and other program work (CUI, PMI, etc.) – are integrated into a single scope and schedule for execution.
• Development of TA Milestone schedule consistent with TA work process for high complexity turnarounds, including all optimization protocols – assurance reviews, schedule optimization shops, peer reviews, etc.
• Ensures the Turnaround Milestones are met with high quality deliverables.
• Ensure that all scope is risk assessed against accepted practices and established risk tolerances.
• Ensure that the turnaround schedule is integrated seamlessly with all activities – feed out to feed in, including shutdown, decontamination, execution, commissioning, and leak free start up.
• Develops all Investment Proposals associated with turnaround event and is responsible for all aspects of spend and financial closure.
• Team Leader of the T/A Steering Team and Leadership Team for assigned event category.
• Ensures that all operational activities are executed included system level planning, consistent with the T/A work process.
• Ensures that the turnaround is planned and executed in compliance with safety and environmental standards and regulations.
• Ensures compliance to all appropriate work processes (T/A, Project Controls, MOC, Quality Assurance etc.)

Eduction and Experience requirements for role: 

• Academic Level: High School Diploma
• Language(s) and level of proficiency: English
• The candidate will usually have 10 years’ experience in, chemical or oil industry in a Turnaround role, and PROVEN experience in a supervisory/management function in maintenance or turnarounds minimum 5 years as Turnaround Lead.
• He/she preferably must experience in planning and execution of Turnarounds and has played a role in major turnaround events.
• Must have proven to be able to troubleshoot, analyze and resolve engineering problems independently (but knows when assistance of discipline experts is to be called in).
• The candidate should have knowledge of Industry Best Practices and TA processes and be able to prioritize, organize, and plan turnaround activities independently.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with all levels and all departments in the organization.
• The candidate preferably has some experience with modern turnaround and maintenance management techniques, IT tools such as SAP & Primavera.
• Recognized expert in planning and execution of high complexity and turnaround events

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