Sr. Turnaround Planner at Valero

Valero is the best-in-class producer of essential fuels and products that are foundational to modern life. We invite you to join our ~10,000 employees to drive exceptional results for our company, the energy industry and our community.

As a Sr. Turnaround Manager you will be responsible for planning, estimating, and scheduling maintenance outages, emergency outages, turnarounds, catalyst change outs, and capital work scope integration within outages. Coordinates and oversees the work of supporting third party planners. Coordinates service contractors and procures materials for both capital and maintenance outage work.

At Valero, we are committed to advancing the future of energy through innovation, ingenuity and unmatched execution. You can help achieve this goal if you can:

• 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.

This position is salaried exempt status, which means you are not eligible for overtime pay.

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