Turnaround/Outage Execution Coordinator and System Owner

Turnaround/Outage Execution Coordinator and System Owner

Are you the kind of person who is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Turnaround/Outage Execution Coordinator and System Owner to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty ingredients business at our Hopewell, VA site. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Outage function. This position will report to the Maintenance Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Turnaround / Outage Governance & System Owner
  • Own the site turnaround and outage management process, workflow, templates, and governance standards
  • Maintain the integrated milestone schedule, stage-gate requirements, decision rights, and readiness criteria
  • Define roles, interfaces, and required deliverables across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, EHS, Supply Chain, and contractors
  • Maintain system documentation, user guidance, and improvement backlog for the outage process
• Scope Development & Challenge Coordinator
  • Coordinate scope collection, screening, clarification, and approval using established outage scoping rules
  • Facilitate scope challenge sessions and documentation - include deferral, rejection, and contingency decisions
  • Control late scope additions through formal review of risk, resources, schedule, and cost impact
• Integrated Planning & Readiness Leader
  • Coordinate development of the integrated plan for work packages, materials, contractors, permits, isolations, scaffolding, lifting, inspection, and startup support
  • Establish readiness reviews and track constraints, open actions, and milestone completion
  • Confirm logic ties, sequence, access requirements, resource loading, and work-area coordination are reflected in the schedule
  • Escalate readiness gaps that threaten safe, efficient, or timely execution
• Execution Coordination & Control Leader
  • Lead outage execution coordination
  • Facilitate turnover, daily coordination meetings, field status reviews, and priority alignment
  • Maintain visibility of schedule progress, constraints, emergent work, critical path movement, and recovery actions
  • Coordinate timely decisions while preserving established approval, safety, and quality requirements
• Schedule, Cost & Performance Controller
  • Maintain outage performance reporting for schedule, critical path, earned progress, labor, contractor usage, cost, scope change, and forecast completion
  • Coordinate status updates from work owners and validate field progress against the execution plan
  • Analyze variances and facilitate recovery planning for material schedule or cost deviations
  • Provide concise, decision-focused updates to outage leadership and plant management
• Quality, Inspection & Turnover Coordinator
  • Coordinate inspection priorities, quality hold points, repair documentation, testing, punch lists, and turnover requirements
  • Confirm completed work packages contain required acceptance results, redlines, certificates, and technical records
  • Facilitate resolution of nonconformances and incomplete work before equipment release
  • Coordinate structured handoff from maintenance execution to Operations for commissioning and startup
• Startup, Closeout & Continuous Improvement Owner
  • Coordinate mechanical completion, system walkdowns, commissioning readiness, startup support, and post-startup monitoring
  • Lead outage closeout activities including cost reconciliation, schedule review, remaining-work transfer, and contractor demobilization
  • Facilitate lessons-learned reviews and convert findings into assigned improvements to standards, templates, strategies, and future plans
  • Maintain historical outage records, performance trends, benchmarks, and action completion status

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• 5-10 years in manufacturing supporting Maintenance/Operations/Outage Execution
• HS Diploma or equivalent
• Extensive outage operations experience

• Demonstrated responsible and ethical behavior at all times

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• PMP certification
• Microsoft Project experience
• Experience managing large industrial projects

*Third party recruiters and agencies (“Agency”) should not contact employees of Ashland or its subsidiaries directly. Any resumes sent by an Agency to a hiring manager, recruiter or submitted to Ashland’s career portal are considered unsolicited and property of Ashland. Ashland will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, unless the Agency has a signed contract with Ashland’s Human Resources/Procurement department in advance of submitting a candidate for consideration. Verbal and written approvals will not be considered a valid contract for service.