Maintenance Master Planner/Scheduler

AdvanSix • Richmond, VA

2d • $95,000 - $142,600

About The Position

AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people’s lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect.

The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler is responsible for developing and integrating all in-house and contractor routine maintenance activities into a single schedule for execution on a weekly basis in addition to ensuring all maintenance and capital activities are appropriately planned and integrated into a single schedule for optimal utilization before and during the turnaround/outage execution.

Requirements

• 8+ years of planning, execution, and scheduling for maintenance or capital construction experience in chemical or similar industries,
• Must have initiative, self-organization and ability to tactfully deal with peers and superiors.
• Possesses strong financial and analytical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to communicate to all organizational levels.
• Demonstrated ability to use influencing skills to accomplish goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize work, handle multiple/varied assignments and to manage conflicting priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively utilize SAP/ERP, MS Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
• Strong work ethic and commitment to excellence, with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Data driven decision making, able to work under pressure, committed to meeting deadlines.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Demonstrated understanding of integrated capital and Maintenance Turnaround in the chemical facilities.
• Microsoft Project/P6/Primavera knowledge and experience.
• Demonstrated ability in support of Turnaround development from planning and scheduling, and an ability to understand engineering and maintenance standards and procedures.
• Ability to identify and prioritize steps which need to be undertaken for development of milestone Turnaround deliverables for tasks completion, arrange and support development of necessary resources loaded schedule required to execute a project and communicate to stake holders gaps, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Well-developed interpersonal, written and oral communication skills including the ability to interact effectively with the capital and supply chain cross function.
• Demonstration of fostering good relations with both capital and maintenance Turnaround planners and stake holders, and contractors, obtain feedback and ensure on-going co-operation
• Ability to appropriately change responses, techniques or approaches to situations or problems related to work operations to achieve a desired result.
• Experience managing in a union environment.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading a consistent integrated outage planning and scheduling process for Turnaround / Outage to include driving accountability through detailed milestone tracking and resource loaded plans during pre-Turnaround and Turnaround execution.
• Develop and maintain integrated planning and scheduling documentation for turnarounds utilizing SAP, Microsoft Project Web Add (PWA), and Power BI development for reporting and tracking progress.
• Work closely providing direction as needed to Maintenance Planners to develop and maintain the portfolio resource scheduling for the integrated Large TAR activities to enable TAR managers to make decisions on in-sourcing and out-sourcing needs. Lead project activities in conjunction with site planners and operation’s partners to ensure assigned resources are followed through in their entirety, and adhering to all time constraints outlined in project package design.
• Oversight and maintenance of master planning database(s), including ensuring all TAR schedules are accurately and timely entered by cross functional partners.
• Prepare monthly reports in detailing TAR preparation activities, work in process, and post TAR accounts/summaries. Presenting to Plant Leadership and Senior Leadership as needed.
• Follow established Turnaround Milestone plans and work practices, whilst controlling schedule impacts and complying with planning and scheduling of overall TAR executions at all three AdvanSix sites.
• Ability to collaborate across three sites ensuring effective TAR execution, schedule compliance, and planning continuity to support maintenance and operational efficiency.
• Champion safety across all job functions. Work closely with site planners and TAR managers to schedule appropriate internal and external resources with Risk and mitigation for assigned plant Turnaround both small and large outages.
• Lead resource coordination between site capital engineering and maintenance planners’ developed schedule and assist in determining the key execution integrated milestones schedule.
• Comply with AdvanSix, Quality policy, safety principles, and the corporate values and strategies.

Benefits

• We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being
• Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development
• Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences
• Hired applicants will be eligible for paid holidays, paid time off including vacation, eligibility to purchase company stock, tuition reimbursement, and a 401K with a competitive company match.
• Hired applicants will be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending and health savings account eligibility, employer-provided short term disability benefits, eligibility to purchase long term disability benefits, employer-provided basic life insurance and eligibility to purchase voluntary life coverages.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees