Turnaround Scheduling & Planning Manager; Remote

Overview

At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what’s possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world’s most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.

Reimagine What’s Possible We are seeking a Turnaround Scheduling & Planning Manager within our Project Resource and Outage Support (PROS) Group. This position requires the ability to travel 25-30% depending on assigned workload. This role supports both Industrial Gases (IG) North America for capital projects and the Turnaround team by providing planning, scheduling, & execution support. This allows our team to provide specialized services and additional capacity for infrequent events to operational assets.

This role reports to the TAR Manager, North America and works in concert with the Turnaround Project Controls Manager and the Turnaround Execution Manager, and their teams to ensure smooth execution of 6-14 TARs annually across Air Products North America.

• Manage a team of 31 team members consisting of 3 supervisors, 24 planners, 1 lead scheduler, & 3 schedulers
• Manage planning team across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control valve subject areas to produce professional and accurate manhour estimates, work packages, and bills of material.
• Manage scheduling team to develop, optimize, and deliver high quality schedules to drive predictability and cost competitiveness.
• Resource load planners across outages to ensure pre-outage turning points are achieved while optimizing contingent worker headcount. Drive consistency and efficiency using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Manage contingent worker planners to supplement Air Products labor during peak resource draw.
• Serve as technical lead in support of planning standard processes. Ensure work packages are produced in accordance with Air Products’ standards, procedures, and specifications. Collaborate with internal subject matter experts (SMEs) as required to confirm scope, materials, QC requirements, etc.
• Coordinate with the Turnaround Execution Manager to roll planners into execution and ensure safety, quality, cost, and schedule are met at each outage.
• Coordinate with the Turnaround Manager to ensure planners order and manage contractors per the procurement and cost control strategy for each outage.
• Champion safety as a planning deliverable and ensure packages consider safety related practices, e.g. Falling Object Prevention.
• Complete lessons learned and package documentation to drive efficiency in future TARs.
• Support continuous improvement of the TAR planning process through implementation of planning software and modification of TAR planning procedures to help streamline and reduce the planning cycle.

• Strong solid understanding of operating plant systems including Maintenance, Machinery, Electrical, and Instrumentation. Broad technical familiarity with motors, pumps, compressors, turbines, fans, cooling towers, pressure vessels, and piping systems.
• Strong leadership abilities.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, planning and scheduling skills.
• Self-motivated and willing to learn and improve.
• High ethical standards.
• Willing to work a wide variety of scheduled days and hours.
• Works professionally and collaboratively with employees, peers, management, support personnel, program participants and business area persons
• Applies positive and constructive demeanor toward resolution of problems and conflicts.
• Accepts direction, constructive feedback, and supervision.
• This role is a Safety Sensitive Position

• Engineering Degree or equivalent industry experience.
• 10 years’ experience in maintenance and/or engineering fields, including industrial outages.
• Proficient in the use of computers and business software, including Microsoft (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, One Note, Outlook).
• Proficient in the use of SAP and Primavera P6 software.
• Valid Drivers  License and good driving record required.

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