- Senior
- Oficina en Bakersfield
Job Summary:
The Turnaround Manager plans, executes, and controls large-scale refinery maintenance shutdowns to ensure safety, schedule adherence, budget compliance, and quality. They lead a cross-functional team to develop the work scope, budget, and execution plan, manage contractors, and ensure all work is performed safely and efficiently to minimize downtime and meet performance metrics.
Essential Functions:
- Develop the overall turnaround strategy, including the work scope, safety plans, and schedule. Integrate capital project scope into the overall planned maintenance outage.
- Lead a core team of planners, supervisors, and contractors, and manage individual and team performance.
- Ensure all activities comply with health, safety, environmental (HSE) goals and process safety management (PSM) procedures.
- Oversee the overall budget, manage costs, and provide accurate financial reporting throughout the turnaround.
- Coordinate all aspects of the turnaround, including labor, materials, and contractor selection.
- Establish performance metrics and objectives, and monitor performance against them. Develop KPIs for TA performance tracking and reporting, making adjustments based on leading & lagging indicators.
- Champion continuous improvement by implementing lessons learned and improving existing work processes.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Excellent customer service and negotiation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks under pressure
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff
- Oversees the daily workflow of the department
- Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations
- Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy
Education and Experience:
- A high school diploma or GED is the minimum, but a bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline is often preferred.
- 10+ years of refining turnaround experience
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to pass a physical test of pushing, pulling, and lifting a minimum of 50 lbs
- Physical strength and good hand-eye coordination
- Prolonged periods of standing and walking
- Ability to perform repetitive movements over long periods of time
- Requires frequent reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching
- Requires lifting, positioning, pushing, and/or transferring equipment and materials
Other duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Grapevine Operating Company LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.