Turnaround Excellence Lead

LyondellBasell Industries; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LyondellBasell Industries seeks a Manager, Turnarounds to lead and execute turnaround assurance activities within the GAIT organization. You will partner with site teams to ensure readiness, drive risk assessments, and mentor turnaround professionals across the Americas and globally.

Reporting to the Controls and Assurance Senior Manager, you will coordinate scope, schedule, and cost reviews, and share lessons learned to continually improve turnaround performance.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of Turnaround standards, work processes, cost control, scheduling, and risk management.
• Skilled facilitator with experience leading assurance reviews, risk assessments, stakeholder workshops, and cross-functional alignment sessions.
• Strong understanding of Turnaround contracting and procurement strategies and their impact on Turnaround performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead Turnaround assurance reviews and assess compliance with the Turnaround Excellence Model.
• Facilitate scope challenge, cost risk, schedule risk, optimization, discovery risk, and lessons learned workshops.
• Communicate review findings, key risks, and recommendations to Turnaround teams, Site Managers, and leadership.
• Develop and track gap closure plans to improve Turnaround readiness and performance.
• Analyze Turnaround KPIs and benchmarking data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across sites and support implementation of improvement actions.
• Train, coach, and mentor Turnaround teams and leaders on Turnaround Excellence Model requirements.
• Partner with global counterparts to align Turnaround processes, tools, and standards.
• Maintain Turnaround standards, preferred practices, guidelines, and supporting tools.
• Support continuous improvement of the Turnaround Excellence Model.

Skills

Turnaround management

Facilitation

Risk assessment

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or advanced degree in engineering, construction management, or related technical field

Tools

SAP

Primavera

Archer

Job description

LyondellBasell Industries seeks a Manager, Turnarounds to lead and execute turnaround assurance activities within the GAIT organization. You will partner with site teams to ensure readiness, drive risk assessments, and mentor turnaround professionals across the Americas and globally.

Reporting to the Controls and Assurance Senior Manager, you will coordinate scope, schedule, and cost reviews, and share lessons learned to continually improve turnaround performance.