Turnaround (TAR) Maintenance Planner

Indorama Ventures Xylene & PTA LLC•Decatur, AL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Turnaround (TAR) Planner plays a key role in preparing, coordinating, and supporting turnaround work to ensure planned activities are executed safely, efficiently, and within established scope, schedule, and cost expectations. This position serves as a central planning resource between Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, contractors, and TAR leadership by developing accurate work packages, maintaining milestone alignment, supporting schedule readiness, and helping remove barriers before and during execution. The TAR Planner optimizes turnaround expenditures and work execution productivity by applying best-practice planning methods that support effective scheduling and safe, reliable plant operation. The role partners with Procurement to obtain an optimized total cost for materials and services within specification requirements; supports safe work practices, plant safety, and operational objectives; and provides data to support TAR metrics. Key responsibilities include maintaining TAR milestones, facilitating stakeholder alignment, reviewing TAR notifications, creating TAR maintenance orders, validating planned jobs for accuracy and cost, maintaining cost-tracking tools, generating the TAR work priority list, reviewing schedules and contractor quotes, supporting contractor bid reviews, and helping execution teams minimize planning errors in accordance with TAR maintenance planning procedures.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED required
Ten years of experience in plant maintenance, chemical manufacturing, refining manufacturing, or construction
Five years of experience in TAR planning, scheduling, and execution
Thorough understanding of maintenance cost drivers
Ability to interpret P&IDs, PFDs, blueprints, and isometric drawings
Thorough knowledge of job plan estimating
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel
Proficient knowledge of ERP planning and scheduling tools
Demonstrated leadership ability, including strong interpersonal skills
Effective oral and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of SAP, including the ability to generate reports, create plans, and set up spare parts
Thorough knowledge of Process Safety Management (PSM) Mechanical Integrity and safety procedures
Proficiency in Microsoft Access
Knowledge of Primavera or other scheduling tools
Two-year technical degree in Maintenance Technology

Responsibilities

Screen all TAR notifications to ensure the scope of work is accurate, meets priority criteria, represents a valid TAR request, and is funded by the applicable TAR capital budget
Convert TAR notifications into Maintenance Orders (MOs), create maintenance work plans, and secure additional information as needed before order conversion
Directs goals and expectations to the TAR Contract Planners
Review detailed job plans for all TAR MOs in SAP, including field walkdowns or evaluations, manpower estimates, scheduling requirements, and applicable safety considerations
Review all TAR job packages for accuracy, completeness, and cost alignment
Develop scopes of work for competitive bid processes
Review past TAR lessons learned with TAR contract planners and apply applicable improvements to future planning activities
Assist Project Engineers with entering maintenance projects into the master schedule
Assist Operations with prioritizing and facilitating TAR activities
Produce or assist with creating TAR schedules
Maintain a prioritized TAR work list for planning and scheduling
Create and maintain a database of planned, ready-to-work Maintenance Orders (MOs) and provide resource data to the Planning Lead to support schedule resource leveling
Review cost estimates with the applicable TAR Superintendent before releasing orders and finalizing estimated costs
Create and maintain the TAR cost sheet
Provide materials, tools, services, and equipment through requisitions, storehouse stock, or rentals
Communicate with vendors, manufacturers, contractors, Maintenance, and Operations to expedite materials and services for TAR work in accordance with planning directives
Create TAR meeting agendas and lead Pre-TAR and daily execution update meetings with stakeholders
Coordinate field execution with TAR maintenance teams
Maintain communication between Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Inspections, Planning, and Scheduling
Coordinate assigned TAR Scope Change (TSC) and Job Scope Change (JSC) tasks
Maintain TAR milestones and report progress to the TAR Superintendent.
Review TAR critical equipment against required due dates and ensure critical work is completed before the TAR due date
Code TAR MOs with required TAR SAP fields and maintain PPM tasks and orders in SAP for scheduling use
Provide planning and scheduling metric input and update critical records following work execution.
Comply with all site safety, environmental, Health Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE), and TAR guidelines
Maintain a clean and well-organized work area
Attend meetings and training as required
Perform special projects, miscellaneous duties, and other responsibilities as assigned by the Maintenance Planning Lead