Chemicals
Manufacturing
Location: Louisiana
Ideal Candidate:
2+ to 5 years of experience
Management Experience Required – No
Minimum Education – Vocational
Willingness to Travel – Often
This position is intended to provide Capital Project and Turnaround (TAR) scheduling development and management. This position will set up and maintain schedules on large/complex jobs, provide oversight and direction to contract schedulers, and provide basic training on scheduling to project team members. The services provided by this position, require an in depth technical knowledge of both the tool software and the scheduling and reporting work processes. Having accurate schedules that are properly managed, helps ensure project and TAR plans are in alignment with business targets. An accurate schedule also enables contractor manpower levels to be optimized up front, which reduces cost.
Develop a detailed and optimized project/TAR execution schedule that links dependent activities and shows an accurate and integrated timeline for the scope of work (capital executed during the TAR, operational, and maintenance).
Perform job manpower leveling in order to identify and optimize labor resource requirements.
Update schedule and report progress during the project/TAR on a routine basis.
Generate predefined look-ahead schedules and ad hoc reports on an as needed basis, in order to provide day-to-day scheduling direction to the project/TAR execution team and the contractors.
Track and report on critical path activities in order to help the project/TAR execution team to determine proper prioritization of work.
Integrate project scope changes and/or TAR discovery work into the schedule to help determine manpower and schedule duration impact.
This position must have extensive scheduling experience (5 – 10 years) in a Chemical and/or Refining manufacturing facility. Sound knowledge of planning is also necessary; along with strong knowledge of construction and maintenance work execution for the different types of crafts.
A minimum of 3 years experience working with Primavera is required and experience with version 6 of this software is highly desirable.
It is desirable for this position to have working knowledge of SAP. It is also desirable for this position to have a 2 year vocational degree and/or construction/maintenance craft work experience in a Chemical and/or Refining manufacturing facility.
