Senior Refinery Turnaround Leader

ADP, Inc.

Deer Park (TX)

On-site

USD 210,000 - 260,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

ADP, Inc. seeks a Senior Manager, Turnarounds to lead and deliver complex refinery turnarounds at Deer Park, TX.

You will own safety, quality, cost, and schedule, directing large execution workforces and cross-functional teams through planning, procurement, and on-time startup while maintaining zero incidents where possible. You will drive governance, develop leaders, optimize strategies, and ensure disciplined change control across multi-year horizons, with a focus on achieving first-quartile

Qualifications

Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis.
Ability to effectively manage competing priorities.
Highly effective communicator who can command a room, with clarity in the face of complexity.
High acumen in business finance, budgeting, controls, and forecasting.
Deep experience in Turnaround Portfolio Leadership over a multi-year cycle with the size and complexity up to $250M+ annual spend.
Proven developer of teams, bringing clarity of expectations and accountability to create high performance and highly motivated employees and contract partnerships.
Resilient in the face of difficulty and complexity. Never becomes a victim, always acts and seeks applicable support across organizational lines and regardless of direct responsibility to achieve desired results.
Respectful in interactions, willing to be candid with the intent to build-up those around them, not tear down.

Responsibilities

Enterprise-level turnaround leadership: Sets the vision, priorities, and governance needed to safely deliver complex shutdowns and turnarounds with disciplined execution and clear accountability.
Safety, quality, and reliability focus: Champions safe work execution with a relentless passion for ZERO incidents including ZERO quality events and delivering on-time asset reliability while ensuring turnaround decisions support long-term business performance.
Develop Leaders and Teams: actively coaches and intentionally develop team members including leadership to enhance capability both short term and long term through succession planning and targeted development opportunities. Frequently meets and provides structured feedback on capabilities and results to enable their team to thrive. Ensures clarity on expectations and accountability to deliver while providing appropriate support.
Strategic execution optionality: Develops and evaluates multiple execution strategies to balance safety, scope, schedule, cost, resource availability, and risk.
Complexity and risk management: Leads through uncertainty, competing priorities, and high-pressure decisions while maintaining control of budget, schedule, and business-critical risks.
Executive communication and stakeholder alignment: Communicates effectively up, down, and across the organization, providing concise updates, decision framing, and escalation support for senior leaders.
Results-oriented performance leadership: Establishes clear expectations, measurable outcomes, and performance discipline across internal teams, contractors, and cross-functional partners.
Ownership, credibility, and influence: Builds trust through visible ownership, sound judgment, follow-through, and the ability to influence stakeholders without sacrificing execution discipline.
Contracting and procurement partnership: Applies strong contract strategy acumen and partners effectively with Indirect Procurement to secure contracting models, commercial terms, and supplier performance aligned with turnaround success in safety, quality, cost competitiveness and schedule.
Turnaround and shutdown execution excellence: Demonstrated experience leading large, complex shutdowns and turnarounds from early planning through execution, commissioning, startup, and post-event capture of lessons learned.
Strategic safety leadership: Builds safety into every phase of turnaround planning and execution, with clear field expectations, contractor alignment, and disciplined safeguards to achieve ZERO incidents and ZERO quality events.
Critical path schedule management: Strong command of integrated turnaround schedules, critical path analysis, schedule risk mitigation, resource loading, productivity tracking, and recovery planning.
Scope development and control: Ensures turnaround scope is clearly defined, challenged, prioritized, frozen at the right time, and governed through disciplined change control.
Estimating, budgeting, and cost control: Develops credible cost competitive estimates, manages the budget process, understands cost drivers, and applies forecast discipline to protect business commitments.
Risk management and decision quality: Able to identify technical, commercial, schedule, execution, and business continuity risks early; frames options clearly and makes timely decisions under pressure.
Contractor and supplier performance management: Has contract and execution strategy competency to partner with Procurement and functional stakeholders to shape contract strategy with an emphasis on safety and leadership culture, manages contractor readiness, drives accountability, and resolves performance issues timely.
Cross-functional integration: Able to coordinate and communicate effectively across Site Leadership, Business, Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Projects, Inspection, Reliability, HSSE, Procurement, Finance, and contractor organizations.
Performance management and continuous improvement: Experienced in use of metrics, principles of lean, and able to deploy tactics to take action on learnings via after-action reviews, benchmarking, and lessons learned to wholistically improve turnaround performance in predictability, productivity, cost competitiveness, and organizational capability.