Turnaround Event Manager

Nutrien; Borger (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Nutrien, a leading crop inputs provider, is seeking a Turnaround Event Manager for a 3-year temporary assignment at our site in Texas. You will lead safety-focused turnaround planning, execution and closeout, coordinating maintenance, reliability, engineering and contractor teams to deliver safe, on-time asset readiness.

We require 10–15+ years in turnarounds and strong capital project integration, with proven leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or trades certification required.
• 10-15+ years of supervisory experience in turnarounds, projects, and maintenance management or field construction management.
• Proven leadership as Turnaround Manager on high complexity turnarounds is an asset.
• Strong understanding of capital projects and MRM phased approaches to turnaround integration.
• Strong project management, leadership, and conflict resolution skills.
• Good knowledge of turnaround, maintenance, and reliability practices.
• Demonstrated commitment to high safety standards.
• Expert leadership, conflict resolution, and team-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accountability for turnaround performance in safety, quality, scope, schedule, cost, and readiness.
• Embed safety and quality as core values in all turnaround activities and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Lead risk-based scope development and optimization for maintenance, reliability, inspection, and regulatory needs.
• Integrate capital projects, maintenance and reliability work within turnaround plans.
• Oversee shutdown, startup, decommissioning, commissioning and turnover activities.
• Develop and execute the integrated turnaround schedule with critical path reviews.
• Provide leadership to turnaround, project, operations, maintenance, engineering, and contractor teams.
• Oversee budgeting, cost forecasting, overhead allocation, and resource planning.
• Develop contracting and procurement strategies, including contractor selection and bid evaluations.
• Ensure readiness through planning, validation of work packages, staffing, and logistics.
• Monitor execution performance and manage risks and emergent work.
• Communicate with stakeholders on readiness, status, and recovery actions.
• Ensure governance with Nutrien processes and milestones throughout lifecycle.
• Lead turnaround closeout with lessons learned and continuous improvement.

Skills

Turnaround leadership

Safety culture

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Budgeting

Education

Engineering degree or trades certification

Job description

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services, and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purpose, Feeding the Future, is the reason we come to work each day. We’re guided by our culture of care and our core values: We put safety first. We act with integrity. We are stronger together. We deliver with excellence.

Through the collective expertise of our nearly 26,000 employees, we operate a world-class network of production, distribution, and ag retail facilities. We efficiently serve growers' needs and strive to provide a more profitable, sustainable, and secure future for all stakeholders. Help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career with Nutrien.

The Turnaround Event Manager is accountable for the successful planning, preparation, execution, startup, and closeout of major turnaround events. This role provides overall leadership and governance for all turnaround activities and serves as the single point of accountability for delivering turnaround objectives related to safety, quality, scope, schedule, cost, and operational readiness.

The Turnaround Event Manager ensures seamless integration of maintenance, reliability, operations, engineering, capital projects, procurement, and contractor activities throughout the turnaround lifecycle while driving compliance with Nutrien turnaround and project management standards. The role champions a culture of safety, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement while ensuring turnarounds deliver predictable and competitive results to the business. This role will report to the general manager at the site.

This is a 3 year temporary position

What you will do:

• Maintain overall accountability for turnaround performance in the areas of safety, quality, scope, schedule, cost, and operational readiness.
• Champion a zero-incident culture by embedding safety and quality as core values in all turnaround activities and ensuring compliance with Nutrien standards and regulatory requirements.
• Lead risk-based scope development and optimization, ensuring maintenance, reliability, inspection, regulatory, and business requirements are incorporated and aligned with turnaround objectives.
• Ensure seamless integration of capital projects, maintenance, and reliability work within the turnaround scope, schedule, and execution plans.
• Oversee all shutdown, startup, decommissioning, commissioning, and turnover activities to ensure safe and efficient asset return to operations.
• Drive development and execution of the integrated turnaround schedule, including critical path reviews and mitigation plans to achieve minimum outage duration.
• Provide leadership and governance to turnaround, project, operations, maintenance, engineering, and contractor teams to ensure alignment of site and turnaround goals.
• Oversee turnaround budgeting, cost forecasting, overhead allocation strategies, and resource planning to achieve approved financial targets.
• Develop and implement contracting and procurement strategies, including contractor selection, technical bid evaluations, mobilization, onboarding, and performance management.
• Ensure turnaround readiness through effective planning, validation of work packages, resource loading, logistics planning, staffing, equipment readiness, and gate reviews.
• Monitor turnaround execution performance, including progress, productivity, resource utilization, schedule adherence, and management of emergent work and execution risks.
• Establish and maintain effective stakeholder communication, providing timely updates on turnaround readiness, execution status, risks, costs, and recovery actions.
• Ensure compliance with Nutrien turnaround and project management processes, standards, milestones, and governance requirements throughout the event lifecycle.
• Lead turnaround closeout activities, ensuring unit cleanliness, punch-list completion, lessons learned, performance reviews, and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities for future events.

What you will bring:

• Engineering Degree or Trades Certification with significant relative experience
• 10-15 + years or more of supervisory experience in turnarounds, projects, and maintenance management and or field construction management areas
• Proven leadership as a Turnaround Manager on high complexity Turnarounds is considered an asset
• Strong understanding of Capital project and MRM phased approaches to Turnaround integration
• Strong project management skills, leadership, and conflict resolution skills
• Good knowledge of turnaround, maintenance and reliability practices
• Demonstrated commitment to high safety standards
• Expert leadership, conflict resolution, and team building skills

The estimated salary that Indeed, Glassdoor and LinkedIn lists does not represent Nutrien's compensation structure. Nutrien is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.

This job will remain posted until filled. In accordance with Nutrien policies, you will be required to undergo a background check, and may be required to undergo a substance test. While we appreciate all applications we receive, only candidates under consideration will be contacted. Applicants must meet minimum age requirements, as permitted by law.