EIS_Turnaround Group_Turnaround Project Manager

The Stronghold Companies; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Evergreen Industrial Services Turnaround Group is seeking a Turnaround Manager to lead strategic planning, execution, and profitability for TAR, shutdowns, and outages across refinery and petrochemical sites. This role directs Project Managers, Field Supervisors, and support teams to deliver safe, on-time, within-budget outcomes while maintaining client satisfaction.

Travel across the U.S. is required to support project and customer needs; a strong emphasis on leadership, safety culture, and

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in industrial cleaning within refining, petrochemical, or oil and gas facilities.
• Five or more years of turnaround management experience.
• Valid TWIC and Driver’s License mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Oversee multiple concurrent turnaround projects across sites or business units.
• Provide direction and support to Turnaround Project Managers and field leadership teams.
• Ensure consistent execution standards across all turnaround operations.
• Balance staffing, equipment, and resources across projects to optimize performance.
• Lead long-term turnaround planning, including upcoming outage pipelines and capacity forecasting.
• Monitor project execution and review daily performance reports to ensure schedule adherence.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Budgeting

Problem solving

Team mentoring

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Summary/ Objective

The Turnaround Manager is responsible for the strategic planning, leadership, execution, and overall performance of multiple turnaround (TAR), shutdown, and outage projects across refinery, petrochemical, and terminal facilities. This position provides leadership and direction to Turnaround Project Managers, Field Supervisors, and supporting teams to ensure projects are executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with customer expectations. The Turnaround Manager oversees workforce planning, resource and equipment allocation, project performance, and operational execution across an assigned region or portfolio of projects. This role works closely with project leadership to proactively identify and address operational, scheduling, staffing, and financial challenges while driving consistency and accountability across turnaround operations. Serving as a key relationship manager for customers, the Turnaround Manager develops and maintains strong client partnerships, supports business growth and customer retention, and ensures commitments are consistently delivered. This position is accountable for driving operational excellence, workforce performance, resource optimization, customer satisfaction, and overall project profitability across the turnaround organization. All work must be performed in accordance with company and customer procedures, safety standards, contractual requirements, and applicable environmental regulations. The position requires a minimum of ten years of experience in industrial services, oil and gas, petrochemical, or a related industry, including at least five years of experience managing refinery or petrochemical turnarounds, shutdowns, or outages. The Turnaround Project Manager must also have the ability and willingness to travel as needed to support project and customer requirements.

The Turnaround Manager is responsible for the strategic planning, leadership, execution, and overall performance of multiple turnaround (TAR), shutdown, and outage projects across refinery, petrochemical, and terminal facilities. This position provides leadership and direction to Turnaround Project Managers, Field Supervisors, and supporting teams to ensure projects are executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with customer expectations. The Turnaround Manager oversees workforce planning, resource and equipment allocation, project performance, and operational execution across an assigned region or portfolio of projects. This role works closely with project leadership to proactively identify and address operational, scheduling, staffing, and financial challenges while driving consistency and accountability across turnaround operations. Serving as a key relationship manager for customers, the Turnaround Manager develops and maintains strong client partnerships, supports business growth and customer retention, and ensures commitments are consistently delivered. This position is accountable for driving operational excellence, workforce performance, resource optimization, customer satisfaction, and overall project profitability across the turnaround organization. All work must be performed in accordance with company and customer procedures, safety standards, contractual requirements, and applicable environmental regulations. The position requires a minimum of ten years of experience in industrial services, oil and gas, petrochemical, or a related industry, including at least five years of experience managing refinery or petrochemical turnarounds, shutdowns, or outages. The Turnaround Project Manager must also have the ability and willingness to travel as needed to support project and customer requirements.

Essential Functions

• Oversee multiple concurrent turnaround projects across sites or business units.
• Provide direction and support to Turnaround Project Managers and field leadership teams.
• Ensure consistent execution standards across all turnaround operations.
• Balance staffing, equipment, and resources across projects to optimize performance.
• Establish best practices and standard operating procedures for turnaround execution.
• Lead long-term turnaround planning, including upcoming outage pipelines and capacity forecasting.
• Align workforce planning with forecasted demand; Project Managers, Supervisors, Crew Leaders, Senior Technicians, Technicians, equipment material, and critical assets.
• Optimize labor utilization and reduce idle or redundant resources.
• Coordinate equipment fleet allocation to maximize uptime and availability.
• Partner with recruiting and training teams to ensure workforce readiness.
• Monitor project execution across all active turnarounds to ensure schedule adherence (critical path awareness), labor productivity and efficiency, and equipment uptime and availability.
• Review daily performance reports and intervene when projects deviate from plan.
• Drive standardization in crew structures, reporting and execution methods.
• Support escalation and resolution of major operational issues.
• Champion a zero-incident safety culture across all turnaround operations.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA regulations, client safety requirements, and Company HSSE policies.
• Review safety performance metrics and trends across all projects.
• Lead investigations for serious incidents and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Promote proactive hazard identification and mitigation across all teams.
• Own overall financial performance of turnaround operations within assigned region or portfolio.
• Review and approve project budgets, estimates, and bid strategies.
• Monitor labor cost verses budget, equipment utilization and costs, and margin performance across all projects.
• Identify risks to profitability and implement corrective actions.
• Drive improvement in cost control, efficiency, and margin expansion.
• Maintain high-level relationships with key client stakeholders and turnaround leadership teams.
• Participate in client planning meetings, strategy sessions, and performance reviews.
• Ensure consistent service quality and responsiveness across all projects.
• Support resolution of escalated client concerns or issues.
• Position the Company for repeat business and long-term contracts.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Turnaround Project Managers and Field Supervisors.
• Build a strong leadership pipeline for future growth.
• Evaluate performance of leadership staff and implement development plans.
• Promote accountability, communication, and operational discipline across all levels.
• Foster a culture of teamwork, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee equipment strategy for turnaround operations, including but not limited to, fleet sizing, maintenance planning, and capital investment decisions.
• Ensure adequate redundancy for critical equipment.
• Drive improvements in equipment reliability and standardization.
• Coordinate with Equipment Technicians and maintenance teams to minimize downtime.
• Establish and monitor KPIs across all projects, including but not limited to, safety metrics (TRIR, near misses), schedule performance, labor productivity, equipment uptime, and financial performance.
• Provide regular reporting to senior leadership.
• Drive data-driven decision making and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain professionalism, sound judgment, and focus while working under compressed schedules, changing priorities, adverse conditions, and other demands common to turnaround environments.
• Attend and successfully complete all training, certifications, orientations, and other requirements established by the Company or customer.
• Meet all applicable Company and customer requirements, including required drug and alcohol testing and background screening.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Strong leadership
• Strategic thinking
• Ability to work under pressure
• Adaptability
• Advanced financial and budgeting acumen
• Workforce planning
• Organizational
• Problem solving
• Strong Communication (verbal and written)
• Client management skills
• Turnaround execution strategies
• Risk management
• Team collaboration
• Mechanical and troubleshooting aptitude for field equipment
• Detail oriented
• Strong safety awareness
• Dependability
• Ability to work under pressure with professionalism
• Mentorship

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will have extensive supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

This job operates in a petrochechemical / refinery environment. Exposure to cold working conditions during winter months and hot working conditions during the summer months. Exposure to noise, workers must wear protecting hearing equipment or frequently shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level. In an emergency situation, exposure to hazardous chemicals may occur and the use of a respirator is required. All employees will be required to be fit tested for the various respirators used as well as the ability to successfully pass a pulmonary function test (PFT).

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The position of a Turnaround Project Manager - Turnaround Group can be extremely physical at times. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required, and for long periods of time to bend, stoop, walk, climb, squat, reach, kneel, push/pull, stand, sit, hand strength and dexterity. A Turnaround Project Manager - Turnaround Group will frequently lift up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift more than 51 pounds. Must be able to work in confined spaces. Must be able to work at heights and be able to climb ladders and stairways and work off platforms. Move about on hands and feet, bending body downward and forward bending leg and spine- working in a bent over position. Ability to verbally communicate alarms or warnings clearly, concisely, loudly, and quickly. Clearly and quickly hear or otherwise sense alarms or warning and take appropriate action, maintain equilibrium to prevent falling when moving, walking, standing, kneeling or crouching- particularly on narrow, uneven, irregular, slippery surfaces, going up and down ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles or other objects using hands, arms, feet or legs. Sensing physical attributes such as size, shape, temperature, texture, or sharpness of an object by touching. Must possess foot agility and dexterity- operating pedals, foot controls, kick bars and other similar tasks that require foot or toe motion. Grasp, grip and/or apply pressure to an object with the fingers, palm, holding an object in the hand. Lift, raise or lower objects in a vertical direction, particularly heavy or bulky objects. Move objects backwards, forward, in or out in a horizontal direction, particularly heavy or bulky objects. Pulling, exerting a steady backward, downward, upward, or outward force against an object- jerking, wrenching, stretching, towing, drawing, dragging or tugging objects in sustained motion. Reaching, extending the hand (s) and/or arm(s) in any direction. See, read, write, and understand communication including directions, instructions, and warning signs. Ability to see and distinguish colors, to visually distinguish shapes and patterns, to accurately sense distances (depth perception), to accurately see objects and detect motion and wide angles (peripheral vision). Must be able to physically fit into confined spaces and/or manways and must be able to physically fit into the PPE required of this position such as a life support helmet, harness, etc.

Position Type/ Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Typical days and hours of work are variable/ project dependent. Over-time work is common and may be required as job duties demand.

Travel

Travel is expected. Extensive travel throughout U.S. and overnight stay for extended periods of time may be required of this position.

Required Education And Experience

High School diploma or GED. Ten or more years of experience in industrial cleaning within refining, petrochemical, or oil and gas facilities. Five or more years of turnaround management. Proven leadership overseeing multiple projects or large-scale turnarounds. Suite of computer software knowledge mandatory. Strong understanding of financial P&L tools. Strong understanding of industrial cleaning services including but not limited to, hydro blasting, vacuum services, tank cleaning, and chemical cleaning. Must have a valid TWIC and valid Driver’s License. Safety Essentials.

Preferred Education And Experience

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or related field of study. OSHA 30, NCCER, Confined Space Entry certification, HAZWOPER (24 or 40), project management training (PMP or equivalent).

Other Duties

Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice that are job-related and consistent with business necessity.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Evergreen Industrial Services Turnaround Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Evergreen Industrial Services Turnaround Group is committed to providing 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, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, or any other characteristic that is protected by federal, state or local laws.