TAR Management Specialist

Purpose of Job

• The Turnaround Management Specialist is responsible for leading, coordinating, and optimizing all planning governance and execution readiness for site turnarounds.
• This includes oversight of detailed work scopes, resource plans, integrated schedules, risk assessments, and cost/schedule evaluations to ensure safe, efficient, and predictable turnaround execution. 

Key Accountabilities

• Lead cross‑functional alignment with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, HSE, and contractors to ensure shared understanding of turnaround objectives, readiness criteria, and execution priorities.
• Oversee planning and scheduling deliverables prepared by the Planning/Project Controls team, including work packs, integrated schedules, progress tracking tools, and constraint logs; review for accuracy, completeness, and constructability.
• Direct field execution during turnaround windows, including daily/shift meetings, progress reviews, productivity monitoring, issue escalation, and removal of execution constraints.
• Enforce HSE and site permitting requirements, including permit-to-work, LOTO, confined space entry, hot work, line breaking, and working at height; ensure contractor compliance and frontline safety leadership.
• Manage schedule and scope change control, ensuring changes are properly documented, risk‑assessed, communicated, and approved in alignment with governance.
• Collaborate with Procurement and Contracts to evaluate and select contractors based on compliance with safety, technical, and performance expectations.
• Ensure site readiness, including verification of materials, equipment, permits, access, pre‑execution conditions, and field staging.
• Review and validate contractor schedules and progress reports, ensuring alignment with turnaround expectations and reporting standards.
• Work effectively across all organizational levels, including technicians, supervisors, engineers, management, and executive leadership, to maintain alignment and resolve issues.
• Participate in audits and compliance reviews to ensure planning, scheduling, and execution processes meet governance expectations and standards.
• Lead turnaround close‑out activities, including lessons learned, performance assessments, scope variances, and final cost/schedule reconciliation.

Formal Education

• B.S. in Engineering, Construction Management, or related technical field; or equivalent experience in turnaround execution.

Working Experience

• 8+ years of turnaround or capital project execution experience in a petrochemical or refining environment. 
• 5+ years of experience with Primavera P6 (oversight/interpretation; not necessarily hands‑on planning). 

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• Strong leadership presence with ability to guide, influence, and support multidisciplinary teams and contractors.
• Clear, confident communicator capable of engaging at all organizational levels.
• Ability to make sound decisions under pressure and resolve conflicts constructively.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem‑solving abilities.
• Deep commitment to safe work practices and HSE enforcement.
• High degree of professionalism, integrity, and accountability.
• Proficiency in reviewing and interpreting planning, scheduling, and maintenance system outputs (SAP/CMMS/EAM, integrated scheduling tools); ability to adapt quickly to new tools and processes. 
• Demonstrated capability in reviewing and managing integrated turnaround schedules, resource plans, progress measurement methodologies, and schedule control processes.
• Proven experience supporting field execution, including contractor coordination and interface with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and HSE.