TAR Coordinator - Port Arthur, TX

$88,875 - $130,350/Yr

Linde - Port Arthur, TX

Full-time - Senior

Port Arthur, TX

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

The TAR Coordinator is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all turnaround activities within the Sabine Enclave to ensure they are completed safely, on time, and within budget. This role acts as the primary interface for Operations, Maintenance, Capital Projects, Safety, and Engineering, ensuring successful completion of turnaround objectives while maintaining safety and efficiency of service personnel on site.

Responsibilities

• Lead Turnaround Execution Team to develop turnaround pre-plans, cost estimates, shop arrangements, and schedules.
• Act as a champion of the turnaround execution work process in support of business goals related to safe, quality, reliable, and competitive maintenance services.
• Lead execution of planned and unplanned unit shutdowns including job plans, critical path schedule development, tracking, and closeout activities.
• Communicate with Facility Managers and Shift Supervisors to clarify work priorities and status of the turnaround.
• Ensure proper completion of inspections and implementation of all environmental, safety, and security requirements.
• Schedule and facilitate routine TA coordination/schedule meetings with Operations, Plant Maintenance, Capital, and Turnaround organization.
• Conduct safety meetings with contractors around key practices and procedures.
• Participate in investigations as requested.
• Review the schedule and communicate work scope priorities to the respective workforce both on and off site.
• Implement appropriate action to maintain maximum labor productivity and cost effectiveness.
• Ensure all expense, capital project, maintenance, and operations schedules are integrated into the master Turnaround project schedule.
• Facilitate the execution of the milestone schedule - scoping process, planning, scheduling, and engineering.
• Work with operations, maintenance, inspection, and other departments to assemble an approved work scope.
• Determine manpower levels to attain schedule milestones and monitor manpower levels and craft mixes to ensure conformance to the Turnaround Plan.
• Develop and implement a quality assurance strategy for each TAR to ensure reliable equipment upon restart.
• Oversee and manage field change notice (FCN) process to maintain control of turnaround cost and schedule.
• Coordinate with prime outside contractors to specify requirements by craft, manpower, and heavy equipment needs; coordinate with materials and contract supply specialist on written contract needs.
• Monitor field progress during TAR activities and update or develop new work schedules.
• Coordinate all expense work scope development.
• Assist project managers with scope, project estimates, and execution management of capital projects that involve replacement and/or upgrade of existing plant and equipment.
• Assist in the development of contractor strategy.
• Oversee the contractor bid and selection process for the turnaround scope of work per the milestone schedule.
• Develop turnaround budgets and control spending through appropriate tracking, forecasting, and adjustments.
• Manage turnaround cost and schedule attainment.
• Communicate issues with regard to forecast cost to the Maintenance Superintendent.
• Monitor productivity and cost.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years relevant experience in plant engineering, turnaround execution, and reliability activities.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering is a plus.
• Strong leadership capabilities.
• Key skills include communication, decision quality, planning, courage, facilitation, influencing, negotiating, and public speaking.
• Detailed understanding of equipment and overall plant manufacturing processes.
• Familiarity with environmental, safety, and health procedures and issues.
• Understanding of function, maintenance, and inspection practices of mechanical, electrical, and analytical equipment as well as instrumentation and controls systems basics.
• Familiarity with turnaround work processes and best practices.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, drive issues to completion, and obtain results.
• Proficient in the use of CMMS, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Project, Primavera, and PowerPoint.

Benefits

• Health savings account
• Paid holidays
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan