Turnaround Controls Specialist
The Turnaround Controls Specialist plays a critical, highly technical role in planning and executing the 2027 turnaround at Client's Augusta site. This position integrates cost control, schedule control, daily reporting, field data integrity, advanced analytics, and continuous improvement. The specialist provides decision-support modeling, identifies trends and variances, ensures adherence to Client's TAR controls standards, and delivers insights that influence execution performance, cost exposure, and schedule readiness. The role collaborates across Maintenance, Engineering, Capital Projects, Supply Chain, Contractors, and the Central TAR Team to ensure data accuracy, visibility, and alignment with corporate controls strategies.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Turnaround (TAR) Controls, including schedule control, cost control, reporting, and scope management.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, business, accounting, or equivalent experience (PMP, AACE, or similar certifications are assets).
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.
- Advanced experience with Oracle-based software including Primavera P6, Oracle EAM, and cost/procurement modules.
- Experience with CMMS systems such as Oracle EAM, SAP, Maximo, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Planisware for project, cost, and portfolio management.
- Strong analytical skills with exacting attention to detail and the ability to interpret cost and schedule data.
- Power BI reporting and dashboard creation experience; Power Apps experience is an asset.
- Experience performing Earned Value Management (EVM), forensic schedule analysis, or variance root-cause analysis.
- Experience building or supporting decision-support models such as Monte Carlo simulations (preferred).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with ability to influence diverse stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a high-intensity turnaround environment with compressed timelines.
- Ability to challenge assumptions, identify inconsistencies, and ensure data accuracy across multiple systems.
1. Scope & Schedule Controls
- Consolidate all turnaround and capital scopes into a single master list for full visibility.
- Maintain and update the integrated turnaround schedule and support baseline development.
- Track schedule logic, progress, variances, critical path changes, and delays.
- Perform forensic schedule assessments to identify root causes and recommend recovery actions.
- Support integration of estimating, scheduling, and cost data for lifecycle visibility.
- Coordinate with planners, schedulers, and project teams to ensure schedule accuracy and compliance.
- Develop, track, and manage the turnaround cost baseline, including commitments, accruals, and actuals.
- Monitor cost-to-date and cost-to-complete metrics across all work packages and purchase orders.
- Identify and escalate cost variances early with recommended corrective actions.
- Perform earned value analysis (EVM) to measure performance against budget and schedule.
- Support development of cost estimates, contingency analysis, and risk-based prioritization.
- Ensure procurement activities align with budgets and long-lead risks are proactively identified.
- Compile and distribute daily turnaround reports summarizing cost, schedule, resource usage, KPIs, safety, and critical risks.
- Ensure contractors and internal teams submit accurate progress and timesheet data.
- Track earned hours, productivity, progress constraints, and execution barriers.
- Provide leadership with actionable insights that drive rapid in-window decision-making.
- Identify trends, variances, and anomalies in cost and schedule data and escalate when required.
- Support development of decision-support tools, including Monte Carlo simulations or risk models.
- Contribute feedback to Client's digital roadmap on data systems and workflows.
- Support corporate benchmarking and continuous improvement through TAR metric analysis.
- Ensure QA/QC of all schedule and cost data across systems.
- Support risk-ranking of turnaround and capital projects early in the planning cycle.
- Integrate cost, schedule, and resource impacts into risk evaluation.
- Maintain and update the turnaround risk register and communicate risk impacts.
- Prepare weekly and monthly performance dashboards using Power BI and related tools.
- Facilitate alignment meetings with planning, engineering, maintenance, procurement, and leadership.
- Provide transparent reporting on scope growth, cost exposure, data integrity, and schedule threats.
- Support monthly TAR review processes and assist with audit readiness.
- Maintain documentation for scope changes, budget adjustments, procurement status, and risk actions.
- Ensure all cost and schedule processes comply with Client's TAR governance standards.
- Validate accuracy of field data collection, ensuring data reliability without direct supervisory authority.
- Support audits and identify opportunities to standardize and improve controls processes.
- Drive continuous improvement of TAR controls tools, systems, and standards.
- Combination of office and field work; PPE required in designated areas.
- High-intensity environment during TAR execution (6-7 days/week, 10-12 hours/day).
- Frequent collaboration with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- Requires strong professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment.
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