Strategic Midstream Turnaround Planner (Travel‑Heavy)

Omega AS; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NSB Omega is seeking a seasoned Midstream Turnaround Planner for our major oil & gas client in Houston, TX. The role focuses on developing detailed work plans and job packages for turnaround, shutdowns, and major maintenance across midstream facilities.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of industrial maintenance planning experience, strong planning discipline, and the ability to coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of demonstrated experience in industrial maintenance planning, turnaround planning, shutdowns, outages, or major maintenance activities.
• Experience developing detailed maintenance work plans and job packages in an industrial environment.
• Strong understanding of maintenance work processes, job planning, and execution requirements.
• Experience identifying labor, materials, equipment, tools, and contractor requirements for maintenance activities.
• Ability to interpret P&IDs, equipment drawings, technical specifications, and other engineering documentation.
• Experience conducting field walkdowns and validating work scope and execution requirements.
• Understanding of industrial safety requirements, including permitting, isolation, and lockout/tagout processes.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary maintenance activities involving Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, Engineering, contractors, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed maintenance and turnaround work plans based on approved work scope.
• Review work requests, equipment history, drawings, specifications, and field information to establish job requirements.
• Develop comprehensive job packages that identify labor, materials, equipment, tools, and contractor requirements.
• Define job steps, work sequences, estimated labor hours, durations, and resource requirements.
• Identify required permits, isolations, lockout/tagout requirements, and other safety considerations in coordination with site personnel.
• Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, Engineering, and other stakeholders to validate work scope and execution requirements.
• Conduct field walkdowns to verify job scope, identify constraints, and confirm work accessibility.
• Identify long-lead materials, specialty equipment, and vendor support requirements.
• Ensure materials, tools, equipment, and resources are identified and available ahead of scheduled work.
• Support prioritization and development of maintenance backlogs and turnaround work lists.
• Identify potential constructability issues, resource conflicts, and execution risks during planning.
• Coordinate with Turnaround Schedulers to ensure job packages and planning information are accurately reflected in the integrated turnaround schedule.
• Participate in planning meetings, scope reviews, constructability reviews, and readiness assessments.
• Monitor work package readiness and communicate outstanding planning requirements or constraints.
• Provide planning support during turnaround execution, including field coordination and resolution of job package issues.
• Update work package documentation as scope changes or additional requirements are identified.
• Support post-job reviews, documentation updates, and turnaround closeout activities.
• Travel to Midstream facilities as required.

Job description

NSB Omega is seeking a seasoned Midstream Turnaround Planner for our major oil & gas client in Houston, TX. The role focuses on developing detailed work plans and job packages for turnaround, shutdowns, and major maintenance across midstream facilities.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of industrial maintenance planning experience, strong planning discipline, and the ability to coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering.