TAR Lead Scheduler

Location: Superior, WI 54880
Duration: 12 months+
Pay Rate: $60-74/hr

Description:
The Turnaround Lead Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing detailed schedules for plant turnarounds, outages, and events. Beyond technical expertise, the Turnaround Scheduler must foster a culture of teamwork, accountability, and respect. The role calls for someone who builds trust through communication and collaboration, helping drive solutions rather than simply identifying problems.

Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the development and optimization of detailed, resource-loaded, logic-driven schedules
• Formalizes turnaround shutdown and start up logic and schedules in Primavera software
• Develops conceptual turnaround schedules
• Inputs and reviews field planning data into the schedule
• Determines and ties internal and external logic
• Completes schedule data entry check list per job package
• Updates and forecasts the turnaround schedule to plan
• Solicits plan and schedule suppositions from turnaround management and tests hypotheses
• Advises turnaround management of opportunities and risks within the plan and schedule and makes recommendations to capitalize on or mitigate them as appropriate
• Leads schedule review exercises with core planning team
• Leads contractor schedule reviews and contractor schedule integration process
• Prepares user friendly schedule format
• Prepares user friendly shift and three-day look ahead schedules during the turnaround execution
• Manages schedule progress and change during turnaround execution
• Generates turnaround reports for progress as needed

Education
• Minimum a high school diploma or GED. Degree or PMP a plus but not required.

Knowledge and Experience
• Minimum 8-10 years building and executing complex turnaround or outage schedules, in Oil and Gas, LNG, or chemical facilities
• Experience as a Turnaround Planner is required
• In-depth Primavera Project Management P6 knowledge is required
• Strong experience level using Microsoft Office Suite
• Prior use of IPS is an asset
• Knowledge and experience in the best practices and cycles for Turnaround data communication.
• Background as a pipefitter or boilermaker an asset

Skills
• Strong leadership and organizational skills
• Strong planning and scheduling skills, able to track multiple activities with a high degree of accuracy
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills. Able to adapt and work in a fluid work environment which expects high level of customer services, confidentiality, and integrity
• Capable of setting high standards and promoting continuous improvement
• Able to establish a mutually respectful relationship with management, peers and the various facility level workers who are all essential to ensuring successful events
• Provide mentoring and coaching to junior peers and counterparts

Additional Information

• Preference for local candidates but will also consider non-local (non-local candidates will receive $178/calendar day per diem).
• Projected start date of January 2026, 1 year contract duration
• Work schedule: 40 hours/week, but during execution individual will be expected to work 7-13s
• Role will be onsite in Superior, WI

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.