Turnaround Lead Planner

Job Description

Entity: Production & Operations Job Family Group: Operations Group Job Summary: The Lead Planner is a member of the North Sea Turnaround team and performs Non-cycle ending (NCE) work that can be completely independent of a Turnaround event or directly within a CE (cycle-ending) Turnaround event window. The lead planner provides leadershipand technical expertise, often leading a small to medium sized team of contractors in planning and delivering events. About the role The lead planner plans and schedules bp and contractor resources to enable the safe execution of North Sea events. The lead planner is part of the TAR Event Lead Discipline Team, which manages non-cycle and cycle ending turnaround within the North Sea, butmay also be deployed to other regions to support based on demand.The team reporting to this role is composed of planners, schedulers, and execution contractors. All work follows the BP TAR Common Process through the life cycle of the project. Similar to a TAR Event Lead (the senior role in regional TAR teams), this rolewill set the direction and targets for Agile work teams and is ensures safety, schedule, cost, work quality and achieving unit performance objectives for the smaller events they are assigned are met.TAR’s play a critical role in BP’s strategic portfolio. The team is expected to deliver value and savings through efficiently planned and executed events that are in line with the Region’s Area Development Plan. Often times, TAR’s are aligned with otherproduction sheltering opportunities to further reduce production downtime in the Region.The role will be Aberdeen based and in line with bps hybrid working policy will be expected to be office based 3 days per week. Offshore travel (up to 25%) is also expected.What you will deliverWorking with the TAR Event Lead or TAR Manage for Region, the successful candidate will deliver outage objectives and goals for assigned events. This will include:

• Safely develop and implement turnarounds.
• Cooperatively set and meet milestones while facilitating scope development.
• Integrate and align all TAR stakeholders - bp and contractors.
• Deliver quality events on schedule and on budget.
• Develop and provide consistent, balanced training to achieve TAR goals.
• Transfer information and knowledge through historical documentation and recordkeeping.

In addition, the successful candidate will be also encouraged to:

• Coach/mentor tar planners and work contributors across maintenance, operations, projects, and the supporting disciplines on the non-cycle ending outages and Turnaround objectives, goals and common process. This includes active conversations about TAR milestonesand expectations around delivery from supporting functions.
• Work with key stakeholders to develop scope, plans, cost estimates and schedules for the TAR event. This would include, but not limited to, participation in constructability reviews, risk assessments, and schedule optimization exercises.
• Actively travel offshore and safely lead the execution teams during the event.
• Understand the purpose for and apply the principles and policies of Management of Change (MOC), Process Safety Management (PSM), Control of Work (CoW), Activity Integration (AI), and handover management (GoC, etc) in order to ensure personal safety and health,technical and mechanical integrity, environmental health, security of the facility, and energy isolation.

What you will need to be successfulEssential experience:

• Previous experience n petroleum or chemical Production & Operating facilities (preferably with TAR experience)
• Ability to travel offshore up to 25%, including during execution of events.

Desirable experience / skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, Power BI and other digital tools
• Understanding of computerized maintenance management systems (SAP, Maximo etc.)
• Knowledge of schedule development and scheduling software – Primavera (P6)
• Critical thinking and trouble shooting skills
• Ability to work as part of One Team
• Ability to communicate and influence up and down the organization to achieve the desired outcome in support of TAR delivery
• Ability to embrace full accountability for delivery of events and development of team.
• Ability to coach/mentor planner and other TAR contributors across other parts of the organization.
• Knowledge of agile ways of working and tools associated (Kanban, Sprints,etc).

Why join usAt bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and giving back to our environment are highly valued
• Possibility to join our social communities and networks
• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
• Life and health insurance, medical care package
• And many other benefits!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individualswith disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations!Travel Requirement Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working Skills: Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Asset health monitoring, Asset Life Cycle Management, Asset Management, Business Acumen, Cost-conscious decision-making, Cost Leadership, Cost Performance Management, Decision Making, Defect Elimination, Digitalfluency, Equipment criticality assessment, Equipment strategies, Facilitation, Influencing, Maintenance, history and coding, Maintenance fundamentals, OMS and bp requirements, Plant economics, Presenting, Problem Solving, Process Safety Management, ReliabilityFundamentals, Reliability