1About the position: The Turnaround Scheduling Lead supervises a team of turnaround schedulers as a member of the Maintenance and Turnaround organization within the Chevron ENGINE. This role supports Chevron’s Refineries and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) assets. The Turnaround Scheduling Lead will lead a team responsible for all primavera P6 reporting , including daily craft look-ahead and work scope prioritization, resource contractor profiles and manpower loading, S-curve and overall direct labor productivity analysis, and progress reporting to Management. This role will lead a team of schedulers in developing detailed turnaround work packages and associated work scope estimates with appropriate activity detail, activity duration, and resource requirements across the Chevron Refineries and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) facilities. This role is responsible for ensuring their team engages with key stakeholders to develop optimized and resource loaded/levelled schedules, leads schedule optimization efforts and develops Integrated event schedules for all Pre- and Post-turnaround work and applicable Capital Project work scopes. Key responsibilities:
Lead the scheduling team to develop fully integrated turnaround and project schedules across several operating assets
Ensure team and individual deliverables are understood, performance expectations are clear, and progress is measured and reported
Review contractor resource estimates to ensure adherence to resource loading requirements, terms and conditions
Provides leadership, mentoring, and development for scheduling team members as per Chevron Planning / Scheduling standards and continually improves key work processes
Coordinates with operating facilities and contractors as necessary to ensure turnaround schedule alignment, analyze schedule data, ensure turnaround shutdown, clean-up, start-up (SCS) procedures are effectively sequenced and resource loaded, and provide regular updates to stakeholders
Validate turnaround job scheduling is complete and identify risk points in the estimates
Prioritize work with input from operating facilities and allocate resources accordingly to meet expectations
Participate in hiring and organizational design as required
Support succession planning discussions with leadership teams for the ENGINE turnaround organization
Enhance ENGINE knowledge of industry standards and best practices for turnaround scheduling and execution while ensuring the documentation of lessons learned from all Phases of Chevron’s turnaround process
Work with others to adopt digital tools as rolled out for use and provide feedback to product owners
Required Qualifications:
Minimum of 5 years Turnaround experience within Complex Facilities
Demonstrated relative experience in developing detailed schedules and resource loading plans for a complex processing facility or operating assets in Maintenance turnaround events
Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech.) in relevant Engineering or Maintenance field from a recognized (AICTE) university
2 - 4 years of supervisory experience
Experienced in supporting field execution of turnarounds specifically within the refining and/or liquefied natural gas industry
5 years relevant turnaround execution, planning and scheduling experience, in particular supporting turnaround teams in a complex oil and gas operating environment is preferred
Working knowledge of Primavera P6 project schedule management software, SAP, SMART GEP, and Maximo/JDE CMMS and their interfaces with the scheduling programs is preferred
Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1.30pm to 10.30pm.
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