Outage Scheduler – Oil & Gas Power Generation
Turner & Townsend•Houston, TX
•Hybrid
About The Position
Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Planner / Scheduler with strong experience in LNG, petrochemical, or power generation environments, with a focus on outage, turnaround, and brownfield project execution. This role will support the planning and execution of major facility upgrades and scheduled outages, requiring deep expertise in Primavera P6 scheduling, maintenance integration, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, construction, and operations teams. Work to be performed in the Houston, TX Office with regular travel to site facility in Corpus Christi.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction
- Minimum 8-15 years of applicable experience
- Direct experience working on teams within a complex matrix environment
- Expertise using Primavera P6
- Excellent communication skills
- Turnaround, outage, or power plant experience is required
Responsibilities
- Develop, monitor and update owners' Project Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
- Establish the schedule management program and deliverables to be used on large scale capital programs
- Interface with project stakeholders as trusted advisors to provide guidance and recommendations for the project
- Prepare schedules from the ground up, including logic ties, critical path identification and resource loading.
- Align schedules to defined shutdown/startup windows and operational constraints
- Lead planning efforts for short-duration, high intensity outages with detailed execution plans for mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumentation scopes
- Support workface planning and execution sequencing
- Consolidate contractors schedule to incorporate into IMS
- Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist in the development of alternative methods for corrective action
- Apply EVM methodology to measure project progress
- Review schedules with project team members on a regular basis to ensure that accurate and timely data is incorporated into the schedule
- Prepare and provide schedule progress reports, trending charts, and schedule analysis on a periodic basis
- Coordinate construction, commissioning, and startup integration.
- Maintain record of scope changes, trends and variances that potentially affect schedule performance
- Assure the credibility of the information contained in the schedule
- Maintain liaison with clients and other consultants at all projects stages
- Interface with enterprise software such as SAP for work order integration, maintenance planning and backlog alignment
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable
Benefits
- promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
