Maintenance Turnaround Planner

Buckeye is the premier infrastructure and logistics provider for the world’s energy needs, both today and tomorrow. Since 1886, we have successfully navigated transitions in the way energy has been distributed to continually meet the needs of an evolving market and industry environment. Our people are a critical element to the success and longevity of our operational history and our future as we seek to thrive through the energy transition.

We own and operate a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, processing, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. We are committed to safely and responsibly providing world-class service to meet the continually evolving energy needs of our customers and the communities we serve. As part of this commitment to our customers, we are continually diversifying our platform and service offerings to enable less carbon intensive energy solutions and undertaking decarbonization efforts on our operations.

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Maintenance/Turnaround Planner with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in executing and planning maintenance and turnaround work with experience in refinery, terminal or pipeline operations to join our team!

Role Summary:

The basic function of this role is to develop planned job packages for maintenance and turnaround repair work and improvement projects based on priorities established by the Operations.  The job plans must fully satisfy the notification scope and include all material, services, resources and appropriate scheduling logic between individual operations or tasks. This position must ensure that sufficient amount of work is planned to satisfy production needs. 

Responsibilities & Essential Functions include:

• Participating in the management of notification and work order backlog by:

  • Reviewing backlog and planning list for duplicates

  • Grouping work orders together that can be planned and worked as a single order that optimizes utilization of resources

  • Review Operations planning priority list to ensure unit needs are met

  • Ensuring plans are in place that meet the timing requirements of the units

  • Checking for understanding of scope through notification text and field walk through.

  • Ensuring that order type and maintenance activity types are accurately assigned on the order.

  • Using or creating task lists for repetitive jobs (if applicable)

  • Using BOM's where appropriate.

  • Adjust Basic Start Date to accommodate component lead time and production needs

  • Update planning priorities list

• Building or copying the job plan that clearly shows:

  • special instructions and required documentation such as MOC information, QC-QA needs, piping schematics, etc.,

  • required skill crafts and duration,

  • specialty tools, equipment,

  • optimal scheduling logic between operations,

  • an operation for capital spare repair, where necessary,

  • reservation or purchase order for necessary components

• Providing necessary support for Priority 1 and 2 orders as defined by plant specific criteria.

• Adding steps to order for additional unplanned and discovery scope defined by plant specific criteria.

• Forwarding job packages to the Contractor and Buckeye Maintenance Supervision.

• Soliciting feedback on executed jobs plans and making any necessary changes to ensure planning and work efficiencies continue to improve.

• Provide feedback to the craftsman on planner feedback forms

• Participating in the identification and implementation of reliability driven improvements

• Responsible for all planning deliverables for a single block on a multi-block T/A Event

• Responsible for planning all activities for turnarounds

• Coordination with numerous other disciplines – operations, engineering, procurement and finance

• Intimately familiar with all turnaround work processes

• Responsible for the safety performance of assigned personnel maintenance and or turnaround during execution.

• Field verifies work described in maintenance and turnaround scope and develops detailed work scope activities, with craft type, materials, estimated hours, and plans.

• Assesses job to understand the optimal plan to achieve maintenance budget and turnaround premises including low cost and safety performance.

• Creates bill of material for assigned work, requisitions material, and ensure all material is delivered.

• Assembles work packages with detailed information for planning and execution. Identification, review, and escalation of high-risk activities.

• Ensures compliance to plant orders, policies and procedures including, but not limited to MOC, quality, and turnaround addenda processes

• Works with Scheduler to optimize the master schedule.

• Completes estimate of Direct Field Labor hours, overheads, materials, and equipment for assigned area.

• Communicates key issues and risks to the Scheduler, Maintenance Supervisors, Maintenance Manager and Sr. Maintenance Manager.

• Responsible for update of the schedule for assigned work activities (scheduler will actually input during execution)

• Management of maintenance and turnaround files and records

• Provides a critique of maintenance and turnaround activities after completion of project, participates in Lessons Learned and Lookback process.

• Is mindful of and continues to look for opportunities to reduce maintenance and turnaround scope, and plan and execute with low cost mindset.

• Rotating on call duty

• And other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements:

• Education: High School Diploma

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years’ of planning maintenance and turnaround work experience  with emphasis on maintenance and turnaround planning in the petrochemical and/or Oil & Gas Industry preferred.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of software

• Knowledge of Primavera scheduling software is a plus

• Working knowledge of I&E (Working knowledge of general maintenance)

• Strong proficiency in written and verbal communication in the English language

• Travel Requirements: 10% travel

Certificates & Licenses:

• None Required

Other Skills, Attributes and Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required with the ability to interact with all levels, diverse groups, and people.

• Ability to communicate with and influence contractors and internal craft workforces

Essential Functions:

• This position requires the ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and or/quantitative productivity standards.

• This role requires the ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.

• This position requires compliance with all personnel policies.

Physical & Safety Requirements:

• This person must meet medical criteria established by OSHA for emergency response.

• Position may require exposure to adverse weather conditions, hazardous environments and require the physical stamina to climb tanks, work long hours in the field and wear a respirator.

• Ability to climb tanks, ladders, etc.

• Ability to work around water.

• Ability to lift up to 75 lbs.

• Ability to stand/sit for extended period of time.

About You:

To be successful in the Buckeye culture, our employees must possess a demonstrated commitment to environmental responsibility and regulatory compliance. Excellent communication, both written and verbal, as well as strong organizational skills are paramount. You must work independently and be able to exercise tact, discretion, and professionalism when dealing with internal and external customers, and when handling sensitive and confidential information.

Buckeye wants to create and reward an organizational focus that stimulates the creative and entrepreneurial actions of its employees that result in innovative ways of reducing costs, generating revenues, improving productivity, or improving processes.

People First Culture:

From managing over 5,000 miles of pipeline to commercializing clean energy projects, our people collaborate to provide world-class service and meet the changing energy needs of our customers. Our employee-first culture means that we invest in our employees and equip them to be fully contributing members of high performing teams. We are focused on collaboration, inclusion, empowerment, accountability, and professional development. We want the best in you to bring out the best in us. 

Join us as we work together to build a business that is responsive to the needs of the future while continuing to serve the energy needs of communities today.