Lead Scheduler, Turnarounds

At Parkland, our purpose is to Power Journeys & Energize Communities. We are a prominent independent supplier and marketer of fuel and petroleum products and a leading convenience store operator. As One Parkland team, we proudly serve diverse retail, commercial and wholesale customers across Canada, the United States, the Caribbean region, and South America. We power a growing family of locally known brands including Fas Gas Plus, Pioneer, RaceTrac, Superpumper, Ultramar, Chevron, Esso, and ON the RUN We recognize that diversity gives us an edge and inclusion propels us forward. We’re also a passionate team of down-to-earth achievers, committed to getting our customers, colleagues and communities further, faster. As such, we welcome talented individuals that have a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and industry experience who will contribute to the success of our One Parkland team. **Position Title**:Lead Scheduler, Turnarounds **Team and Location**:Refinery, Burnaby - BC **Position Summary**: The Lead Scheduler, Turnarounds, is responsible for the overall development and delivery of a TA schedule that integrates all process unit shutdown and start-up activities, capital project activities and maintenance activities. The Lead Scheduler, Turnarounds, is responsible for the development, maintenance and implementation of scheduling standards and best practices. **Key Responsibilities**: - Configures scheduling software and coding such that all schedule objectives and requirements are satisfied. - Leads the development of a fully integrated Turnaround execution schedule that contains the required: - Turnaround and decommission activities, with proper sequencing and relationship; - Work scopes in stepped out job plans, with realistic inter and intra logic relationship; - Commissioning and start up activities, with proper sequencing and relationship; - "Hold points" for quality assurance. - Resource assignments, resource coding, and activity coding; - Schedule reporting flexibility as required during the different phases of execution. - Develops and implements a schedule review plan that delivers an effective execution schedule that optimizes plant reliability and turnaround costs while adhering to site safety requirements. - Prior to the Turnaround, identifies areas of vulnerability, where schedule contingency planning should be proactively performed. - Develops and utilizes performance metrics to report execution field progress; but also, to continually improve the overall turnaround scheduling process. - Using state-of-the-art scheduling principles, issues daily work schedules during the execution phase of the Turnaround that reflect previous period changes and challenging, but realistic, work progress expectations. - Provides input to the resolution of all priority conflicts involving execution resources, including labor, materials, services, equipment, and tools. **Qualifications and Skills**: - Expert working knowledge of Primavera P6 Scheduling Software. - 10 + years of relevant work experience. - Bachelors Degree. - Expert working knowledge of MS Suite (inc. Word, Excel, etc.). - Effective time management skills. - Effective and concise verbal and written communication skills. An ability to describe and explain complex scheduling philosophies to non-schedulers. - Excellent understanding of planning and scheduling concepts. - A demonstrated ability to work inclusively with diverse teams. **We Offer**: - Our Performance-based Annual Incentive Plan, an annual bonus awarding your performance. - A share in our success through the Employee Share Purchase Plan and 100% company matching. - A flexible group benefit plan that offers health and dental coverage choices to meet the needs of each unique employee. Inclusive of life and disability insurances, Health Care and Lifestyle Spending options, and a supportive Employee and Family Assistance Program. - Participation in Parkland Pledge, an employee-driven charitable giving program. - An employee referral program - earn up to $2000 for your referral. - In-house learning and development opportunities, leadership training, international opportunities. - Discount Programs and Educational Scholarship Programs for family members. - A safety focused work environment and ongoing safety training. Please note: LI-AD1