Core Maintenance Planner and Scheduling Leader

Job Title: Core Maintenance Planning Team Lead

About the Position:

The Core Maintenance Planning Team Lead plays a pivotal role in the Maintenance and Turnaround organization, providing routine maintenance planning support to Chevron's Refining and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) assets. The position oversees a team of maintenance planners, schedulers, and permit writers who are responsible for developing detailed plans and schedules to execute planned maintenance (both preventative and corrective) and project work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinates the planning and scheduling of all non-turnaround routine maintenance work at the site that is performed by various crafts.
• Provides technical support on planning, estimating, and scheduling for Chevron executed project work.
• Ensures the development of high-quality work packages that comply with Chevron standards.
• Drives accountability regarding the use of standard planning and estimating tools and practices.
• Accountable for the growth and development of planners and schedulers.
• Delivers quality execution work plans and updates on scope status and forecast.
• Collaborates with site representatives to determine work scope to be executed by maintenance teams.
• Works closely with Operations to ensure schedules are effectively integrated into the operating plan.
• Responsible for partnering with Asset Maintenance Team Leads in all crafts to feed planned work into the asset integrated plan/workflow and prepare the work for the field.
• Develops tools to streamline cost and execution forecasting accuracy and report on status at individual project and portfolio level.
• Seeks opportunities to improve planning and scheduling accuracy as well as remove inefficiencies from planning and scheduling activities.
• Works with Construction Services team to integrate Chevron executed scope into a master project schedule.
• Communicates scope progress clearly to customers, stakeholders, and team members.
• Assists in growing Routine/Planned Maintenance work process competency within the ENGINE.
• Ensures Lessons Learned reviews are completed for each FEL event and drives subsequent improvement initiatives.
• Supports backlog management.
• Responsible for developing and improving maintenance resource forecasting for the development Asset's 5-year Work Plan and Budget.
• Participates in hiring and organizational design as required.
• Supports succession planning discussions with leadership teams for the ENGINE maintenance and turnaround organization.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Degree in relevant Engineering or Maintenance Discipline.
• Previous Oil and Gas experience in a Maintenance Planning Leadership Position.
• Strong technical background in planning and scheduling tools – JDE, SAP, Prometheus, Primavera P6.
• Understanding of planning processes including constructability, advanced work packaging, work planning (schedule, resources, cost), project scoping, contract planning and management, progress measurement/controls, and materials management.
• Knowledgeable in core maintenance and technical project planning and scheduling industry best practices.
• Experience with mechanical, electrical, instrumentation/controls, fabrication, inspection and related disciplines while also having a good working knowledge of complex facility operations, preferably LNG facilities.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in managing site staff.
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain logistics to ensure all work can be completed in remote locations.
• Demonstrated skills in time management to drive effective communications between staff and maintainable assets.

Benefits:

• A global operation supporting business requirements worldwide.
• A standard work week from Monday to Friday.
• An aligned work schedule to meet business needs.