Regional TA Maintenance Planner

ECOVYST CATALYST TECHNOLOGIES LLC•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Regional Turnaround Maintenance Planner provides technical leadership focused on equipment reliability and proactive and predictive maintenance practices. Based in Houston, the role provides year-round turnaround planning and scheduling for sulfuric acid manufacturing and regeneration sites in Texas, including Baytown. The planner maintains a rolling 18+ month front-end-loading pipeline, develops field-ready work scopes and job plans, and coordinates schedule, cost, materials, contractor, and warehouse readiness for assigned turnarounds. The position supports turnaround execution and regional standardization while ensuring personal safety, process safety, mechanical integrity, and inspection requirements are incorporated into work packages and schedules. Ecovyst offers competitive pay, a full benefit package, 401(k) matching, and tuition reimbursement.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Strong written and verbal communication, customer service, and decision-making skills.
Competent computer skills and working knowledge of MS Office, with a primary focus on MS Project and associated tools.
Ability to work as a team player and build productive, positive relationships with cross-functional teams.
Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines while producing quality results.
Must be able to obtain a TWIC card.

Responsibilities

Provide year-round, regional turnaround planning and scheduling for sulfuric acid manufacturing and regeneration sites in Texas, based in Houston and covering Baytown.
Maintain the rolling 18+ month front-end-loading planning pipeline for assigned turnarounds, setting milestone gate dates for scope freeze, contracting, materials, and schedule baseline.
Lead and document constructability and scope-challenge reviews to ensure work content is justified, appropriately sized, and aligned with run-length and reliability strategy.
Develop field-ready work scopes and step-level job plans, including task sequence, craft mix, crew sizes, labor hours and durations, and hold and inspection points.
Define supporting job requirements, including isolation and blind lists, lockout/tagout, scaffolding, insulation, rigging and lift plans, NDE, machining, bolt torque/tensioning, and specialty services.
Develop detailed bills of material and self-contained job packages for each work order, and create and maintain corresponding SAP PM work orders, operations, and BOMs.
Establish and maintain reusable job-plan templates and planning norms for repetitive equipment to standardize planning across the region.
Support the Enterprise TA Planner in developing, baselining, maintaining, and updating integrated, resource-loaded turnaround schedules in MS Project using CPM, including critical-path analysis, resource leveling, schedule risk and scenario analysis, look-ahead schedules, and progress S-curves.
Develop budget-control estimates for assigned turnarounds and support cost tracking, forecasting, and variance reporting.
Distinguish expense from capital work and coordinate capital work with Capital Projects and Finance.
Identify long-lead and critical-spare requirements, drive requisitions to meet gate dates, and track materials readiness against the schedule.
Provide planning and scheduling direction to turnaround contractors and specialty vendors and integrate their schedules and resource plans into the master event schedule.
Translate work-order BOMs into job-specific material kits, stage them to the schedule sequence, and track kit status against schedule milestones.
Support the local Storeroom Supervisor in establishing and managing a segregated, locked, access-controlled turnaround warehouse or lay-down area, including receiving inspection, PMI, segregation, issue and return control, SAP reconciliation, and closeout.
Support the assigned site during the execution window by capturing daily progress and planning and executing scope-change and discovery work.
Support maintenance of turnaround data files, schedule libraries, planning templates, and norm databases; benchmark performance and standardize best practices across regional sites.
Build personal-safety, process-safety (PSM/RMP), mechanical-integrity, and inspection requirements into work packages and schedules as hold points to be verified before equipment returns to service.