Turnaround P6 Planner/Scheduler

Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC•Richmond, VA

6d•$70 - $95

About The Position

Brown & Root Industrial Services is hiring a Turnaround P6 Planner/Scheduler to develop and manage detailed turnaround schedules using Primavera P6 and client CMMS/ERP systems. The role covers construction, PSSR, pre-commissioning, and startup planning, as well as resource and labor-hour budgeting, progress measurement, forecasting, and reporting. The planner/scheduler works with field execution personnel, client personnel, project groups, cost teams, contractors, and management to develop schedule logic and track execution through completion. The position also requires interpreting project scopes and technical documents, conducting field walks, developing job plans, and identifying the labor, materials, subcontractors, equipment, and tooling needed for work. The role supports schedule integration of capital/project work, change orders, baseline resource balancing, and daily and weekly progress reporting. The posted pay range is $70–$95 per hour, plus $150 per day in per diem. Pay may vary based on skills, experience, and the position hired for. Brown & Root offers a selection of lifestyle benefits and supports career advancement through professional training and development.

Requirements

In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, charts and graphs, pivot tables, and complex cost/estimating spreadsheets.
Ability to type at least 40 words per minute.
Working knowledge of CMMS/ERP systems such as SAP or Maximo.
Ability and previous experience transferring job-plan data from a client CMMS/ERP system.
Ability to assist clients in establishing parameters and codes to distinguish turnaround jobs from maintenance jobs and to use CMMS/ERP functions to accumulate information for schedule creation.
In-depth knowledge of the latest version of Primavera P6.
Ability to use activity codes, manage WBS structures, set up dictionaries, and code activities.
Ability to input and manage budgeted resource units at the activity level.
Ability to create detailed Level 4 construction and PSSR/pre-commissioning/startup Primavera schedules.
Ability to interpret scopes of work, drawings, P&IDs, vendor specification sheets, and QA/QC requirements.
Previous experience coordinating with a Capital/Project group to integrate high-level job plans into a turnaround schedule and replace placeholders with detailed schedule steps.
Ability to organize and enter job-plan data into a schedule and submit plans for budgetary purposes.

Responsibilities

Develop and manage detailed Level 4 construction schedules in Primavera P6, using construction drawings and quantity takeoffs.
Use P6 activity codes, manage the WBS, set up dictionaries, code activities, and manage budgeted resource units at the activity level.
Coordinate and chair meetings with field execution personnel to develop construction schedule logic for civil, structural steel, pipe, preventive maintenance, inspection, instrumentation, and electrical scopes.
Interpret scopes of work, drawings, P&IDs, vendor specification sheets, and QA/QC requirements; conduct field walks to identify jobs and develop job plans.
Define required support crafts, labor resources, resource quantities, activity durations, total work hours, materials, subcontractors, equipment, and tooling for jobs.
Coordinate with the Capital/Project group to incorporate high-level job plans into the turnaround schedule while engineering and procurement are underway, then replace placeholders with detailed Level 4 job steps when available.
Organize and enter job-plan data into the schedule and submit plans to the cost department for budgetary purposes.
Develop a Level 4 PSSR, pre-commissioning, and startup Primavera schedule integrated with the construction schedule.
Coordinate and chair meetings with field execution and client process personnel to develop logic for PSSR, pre-commissioning, and startup activities.
Balance budgeted resource-unit hours in the Primavera baseline schedule by discipline and phase against budgeted hours.
Extract direct field labor hours and use them to create overall and phase-specific Excel progress S-curves showing baseline, actual, and forecast completion.
Obtain daily progress from field execution personnel using installed quantities by discipline, such as shutdown, scaffold, insulation, pipe, and fixed equipment.
Extract earned and remaining unit hours from the schedule and apply them to progress curves to calculate actual and forecast completion.
Assist the client in managing the execution contractor to keep work on task and on schedule for completion.
Submit data for weekly project progress reports, including safety statistics, FTEs, quality-control progress, physical progress, weather, comments, concerns, and issues; generate PDFs and email them to Brown & Root and client management.
Incorporate direct field labor change orders, associated hours, and schedule impacts into the schedule.
Generate daily schedule summaries, milestone reports, progress curves, and productivity graphs; combine them into a PDF report and distribute it by email to Brown & Root and client management.