Job Summary:
The Turnaround Team Lead is responsible for planning, preparation, execution, and closeout of refinery turnarounds and major maintenance outages. This role ensures that turnaround activities are completed safely, efficiently, on schedule, and within budget while supporting operational reliability and business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Turnaround Planning
- Develop and manage turnaround scope, objectives, and execution strategies.
- Ensure work scope is properly defined, prioritized, and approved.
- Facilitate scope challenge processes to prevent unnecessary work growth.
- Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Reliability, and Contractors.
Scheduling and Work Packaging
- Direct the development of integrated turnaround schedules.
- Manage the P6 Planner/Scheduler and ensure schedule accuracy.
- Verify critical path activities are identified and mitigated.
- Ensure work packages are complete and ready for field execution.
Cost Management
- Develop turnaround cost estimates and budgets.
- Monitor expenditures and forecast final costs.
- Identify opportunities to reduce turnaround duration and overall cost.
Contract and Resource Management
- Coordinate contractor selection and mobilization.
- Establish contractor performance expectations.
- Ensure adequate staffing and supervision levels.
Field Execution
- Lead daily turnaround execution activities.
- Manage turnaround command center activities.
- Resolve emergent work and schedule conflicts.
- Coordinate field priorities with operations and maintenance leadership.
Safety and Compliance
- Promote safe work practices and refinery safety standards.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and company requirements.
- Participate in risk assessments and pre-job planning activities.
Turnaround Closeout
- Lead lessons learned reviews.
- Develop post-turnaround performance metrics.
- Track completion of follow-up actions.
Qualifications
- Experience leading refinery, petrochemical, renewable fuels, or industrial turnarounds.
- Strong understanding of project controls, scheduling, and execution management.
- Working knowledge of Primavera P6 and turnaround best practices.
Required Skills/abilities:
- Familiarity with applicable health and safety regulations
- Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite of products & Primavera P6 planning tools.
- Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Recruit, interview, hire, and train new staff in the department
- Oversee the daily workflow of the department
- Provide instructions to contractors onsite
- Provide constructive and timely performance evaluations
- Handle discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy
Education and Experience:
- A minimum of 7 years of Turnaround experience in petrochemical, refining, and/or renewable fuels processing.
- Experience with industry standard project management practices.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to pass a physical test of pushing, pulling, and lifting a minimum of 50 lbs
- Physical strength and good hand-eye coordination
- Prolonged periods of standing and walking
- Ability to perform repetitive movements over long periods of time
- Requires frequent reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching
- Requires lifting, positioning, pushing, and/or transferring equipment and materials
Other duties
Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Grapevine Operating Company LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Skills Required
- Minimum 7 years of turnaround experience in petrochemical, refining, or renewable fuels processing
- Experience leading refinery, petrochemical, renewable fuels, or industrial turnarounds
- Strong understanding of project controls, scheduling, and execution management
- Working knowledge of Primavera P6 and turnaround best practices
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Primavera P6 planning tools
- Experience with industry-standard project management practices
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with applicable health and safety regulations
- Strong technical, analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, and delegation skills
- Ability to pass a physical test involving pushing, pulling, and lifting at least 50 pounds
What We Do
Grapevine Operating Company, operating as Grapevine Energy, is a vertically integrated renewable-fuels business focused on lowering transportation emissions. It develops proprietary camelina varieties and manages activities across plant science, seed production, farming, feedstock logistics, and fuel production. Its Bakersfield facility converts nonfood camelina and other feedstocks into renewable diesel and other low-carbon fuels, supporting a farm-to-fuel model intended to reduce lifecycle carbon intensity without competing with food crops.
