Scheduler

**Our Offer to You**:
**Site**: Nova Chemicals - Joffre Alberta

**Schedule**: Pre-turnaround schedule of 4 days on, 3 days off,

Turnaround schedule will be 6 on 1 off

**Compensation**: Competitive wages, Overtime, Vacation Pay, DSP’s available for all positions

**Why Work For Us**:
Stuart Olson is seeking a Turnaround Scheduler to join our Turnaround Team located at the Joffre Site in Central Alberta, near Red Deer. This position reports to the Turnaround Planning and Scheduling supervisor and will support the overall preparation and execution of safe and predictable turnaround events by ensuring all activities are identified and linked in a Primavera schedule, integrated with all Turnaround, Capital Projects, Maintenance and Operational activities.

The Turnaround Scheduler will have accountability to ensure Primavera is employed, ensuring earned value tools and work interdependencies are monitored, tracked, and displayed. This position is accountable for detailed scheduling of turnaround activities, and responsible for managing, prioritizing, and scheduling turnaround activities to drive productivity based on priority, resources, and Workfront availability.

**You Will Use Your Expertise To**:

- Collaborate with integrated support groups of production, maintenance, capital, turnaround, engineering, and projects to develop and communicate integrated execution schedules aligned to asset availability and track progress against completion event milestones.
- Ensure alignment with regional and corporate Turnaround work processes, practices, procedures, and standards.
- Lead schedule optimization activities with the turnaround planning and execution leadership.
- Work closely with Event Managers, Planning and Execution Leadership, NOVA employees and contractors.
- As part of the core team, provide daily updates to turnaround schedule with daily forecasts provided to execution team.
- Monitor and report integrated schedule progress against plan and develop corrective actions if target KPIs are not achieved.
- Schedule the sequence of work to be executed based on site priorities, asset availability, resource, materials availability.
- Sequence the execution of the TAR scope in a levelled manner.
- Utilize Primavera and Maxavera software tools to enhance planning and scheduling efficiencies.
- Maintain reporting systems for ensuring that documentation is accurate and timely.
- Collaborate with planners in development of work order task lists to ensure high standard of SAP data integrity (including the WBS/AFE structure), in the correct structure to facilitate automated integration with Primavera.
- Analyze and report schedule progress and communicate with Event Manager and Coordinators, and site leadership.
- Work with Cost Control team to support updated forecast spend and duration using earned value and actuals.
- Coordinate with functional groups in schedule development to maximize utilization of resources.
- Lead and facilitate schedule development, system prioritization and optimization meetings.
- Identify variances to targets and lead problem solving and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to a work environment that supports a motivated, productive team.
- Escalate issues that require leadership support.
- Model NOVA's Nature by executing work and demonstrating behaviours that reflect our values.
- Support budgeting process and drive cost ownership culture
- Demonstrate a willingness to initiate and lead processes in both individual and team environments.
- Identify and act on opportunities for improvement of turnaround planning and scheduling processes.

**Qualifications**
- 10+ years of related scheduling experience in a petrochemical, gas or industrial processing plant or a combination.
- Expert level working knowledge and advanced proficiency with the following: Primavera, Maxavera, SAP PS,
- Proven capacity to create and maintain complex schedules.
- Demonstrated experience in a supervisory or leadership role (Lead Scheduler, Project Coordinator)
- High level understanding of plant system processes
- Proven ability to lead, develop and implement improvement strategies.
- Strong analytical skills to disseminate and effectively present data.
- Ability to challenge assumptions and explore options widely.
- Ability to engage across departments in support of complex troubleshooting and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrated organizational and time management skills with attention to detail.
- Communication, interpersonal and effective facilitation skills
- Capable of working independently and collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Excellent critical thinking skills
- Continuous Improvement mindset focused on execution productivity.

**Working Conditions**
- Working at heights
- Working in a confined space
- Working in and around noise and dust
- Working both indoors and outdoors in hot and cold weather conditions
- Must be clean shaven
- Personal safety equipment wil