Turnaround Planner

Ellaway Blues Consulting; Kansas; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Ellaway Blues Consulting seeks a Turnaround Planner to lead planning for shutdowns, outages, and major maintenance events in a heavy industrial setting. You will develop long-range plans, ensure work is defined and resourced, and ready for safe execution.

The role emphasizes extended lead times and coordination across multiple teams, with a focus on planning readiness, risk tracking, and continuous improvement for future events.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED is required; associate degree or technical certification preferred.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance planning and work-order processes.
• Experience coordinating large, complex maintenance scopes with extended lead times.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and coordination for turnarounds, shutdowns, outages, and major maintenance events.
• Develop long-range plans for complex work scopes requiring detailed coordination and extended lead times.
• Assist with scope development, work-list review and cleanup, work-order setup, and planning-readiness activities.
• Build and organize job packages addressing labor, materials, contractor requirements, tools, permits, equipment access, and execution considerations.
• Coordinate planning inputs across maintenance, operations, engineering, warehouse, supply chain, contractors, and leadership.
• Track readiness milestones, action items, risks, open issues, materials status, contractor needs, and planning progress.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Work-package development

Coordination across teams

CMMS (Maximo)

Excel/Office tools

Risk identification

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate degree or technical certification (preferred)

Tools

Maximo CMMS

MS Excel

MS Word

Outlook

Job description

We are seeking a Turnaround Planner to support the planning, coordination, and execution readiness of shutdowns, outages, turnarounds, and other major maintenance events within a heavy industrial operation. This individual will lead long-range planning activities for complex maintenance scopes, ensuring work is appropriately defined, resourced, sequenced, and ready for safe execution.

This role is focused on major maintenance events and extended-lead planning activities rather than routine daily maintenance scheduling.

Key Responsibilities

• Support planning and coordination for turnarounds, shutdowns, outages, and major maintenance events.
• Develop long-range plans for complex work scopes requiring detailed coordination and extended lead times.
• Assist with scope development, work-list review and cleanup, work-order setup, and planning-readiness activities.
• Build and organize job packages that address labor, materials, contractor requirements, tools, permits, equipment access, and execution considerations.
• Coordinate planning inputs across maintenance, operations, engineering, warehouse, supply chain, contractors, and leadership.
• Track readiness milestones, action items, risks, open issues, materials status, contractor needs, and planning progress.
• Participate in turnaround planning meetings, readiness reviews, pre-event coordination, and execution support.
• Help identify and remove bottlenecks that could affect planning quality, schedule readiness, or event execution.
• Support planning discipline and standardization for major maintenance work.
• Assist with post-event closeout, documentation, lessons learned, and improvement opportunities for future events.
• Track and report metrics related to planning readiness, material availability, action-item completion, and turnaround preparedness.
• Use the site CMMS to support work-order development, scope definition, work package preparation, and maintenance-event readiness.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; associate degree or technical certification in industrial maintenance, operations, engineering technology, or a related field preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of maintenance planning, work-order processes, and industrial maintenance execution.
• Experience supporting large or complex maintenance scopes requiring detailed coordination and longer planning horizons.
• Ability to build work packages and coordinate labor, materials, contractors, permits, tools, and equipment access.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to identify risks, follow up on action items, and keep planning activities moving.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with field personnel, contractors, and leadership.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and related business tools.
• Familiarity with Maximo or another CMMS platform.

Preferred Experience

• Five or more years of experience in turnaround planning, shutdown coordination, maintenance planning, industrial maintenance, or a related discipline.
• Experience planning or supporting turnarounds, outages, shutdowns, or major maintenance events in a process manufacturing environment.
• Experience in refining, renewable fuels, chemicals, oil and gas, power generation, manufacturing, or another heavy industrial setting.
• Experience developing work packages, tracking event readiness, coordinating contractors, and managing material requirements.
• Experience with Maximo or another enterprise CMMS.
• Familiarity with post-event closeout, lessons learned, and maintenance planning process improvement.