Turnaround Scheduler 

Role Description: 

Position develops a detail schedule of turnaround activities for various resources including equipment and materials according to schedules and work lists. Position communicates and coordinates scheduling activities with planning and execution coordinators. 

Job Responsibilities: 

Interact directly with operations and planners to develop pre-shutdown, shutdown, start-up, and post start-up 

Schedules using Primavera scheduling tool or equivalent 

Work directly with turnaround management 

Develop pre-turnaround schedules 

Meet daily with execution resources to update overall schedule

Generate new shift schedule and three day look-ahead schedules 

Analyze overall work progress impact on schedule 

Analyze impact of added work/scope on overall schedule 

Monitor progress on milestones and critical path compliance 

Report schedule progress/impacts to turnaround management 

Track resource compliance with plans and budgets 

Verify no addition work is added to schedule unless approved by turnaround procedures 

Manage tracking of turnaround deliverables and verify final deliverables are retained by document controls 

Assist in the development of work package and track the issuance of packages to the schedule 

Contribute to daily/weekly/monthly turnaround forecasting 

Communicate scheduling deviations to cost engineering  

Post turnaround 

Update schedule with final changes 

Archive schedule and other related documents per Valero's turnaround procedures  

Document 'lessons learned' 

Qualifications & Skills for Success: 

Minimum 5 years of experience as a turnaround scheduler in petrochemical industry 

Minimum 5 years of experience working with Primavera and MS Project scheduling tools