Outage Planner

• To effectively plan & schedule maintenance activities for major outages by utilizing resources efficiently, optimizing durations and achieving cost effectiveness.
• To collaborate with site outage teams, construction, projects, operations, mechanical integrity and plant maintenance teams to develop work packs for the approved outage scope.
• To continually develop and sustain outage planning & scheduling processes at GMC and to drive consistency across the site.
• To assist the outage management team during the preparation phase to deliver major planned outage activities at GMC and to drive HSE and quality standards and effective manpower utilization.
• To assist the Outage Manager in developing an HSE culture driving to goal zero within the outage team including contracting partners.
• To interrogate systems to gather the initial outage scope that includes legal and regulatory inspections, PM plans. Facilitate & collaborate with the projects, operations and the maintenance teams to gather the remaining outage scope.
• To facilitate the scope challenge process to ensure work is challenged and approved that requires a complete outage.
• To ensure that all work is planned adhering to all HSE standards and in compliance with all relevant statutory and company requirements.
• To ensure the scope is planned using detailed work packs by taking site visits, co-ordinating with the scope originators for the technical data & including all the relevant planning requirements such as BOM, task lists, execution method statements etc.
• Prepare the detailed master schedule in collaboration with operations, maintenance, projects, construction and external companies to ensure full alignment. Ensure that project requirements are fully integrated into the outage process.
• Assist Outage Manager to build an initial outage estimate.
• Prepare +/- 10% cost estimates in the detailed work preparation phase.
• Prepare the detailed list of materials and work with the stores operations to ensure all the materials are ordered & are ready for the execution.
• Ensure the master schedule is challenged and agreed by all, the sequential links are correct specially for maintenance & construction combined work and the critical path’s visible.
• Issue the final agreed master schedule using the appropriate view format and issue daily look ahead plans during the execution phase.
• Assist outage manager to drive the outage plan by progress tracking using S curves.
• Attend daily execution tiered meetings and actively participate in the group discussion to drive the progress.
• Provide assistance to the Technicians and the task controllers in any planning issues that arise.
• Assist Task Controller in planning and executing emergent repair work during execution.
• Coordinate with the external companies for the offsite repairs during the execution phase.
• Encourage all to follow the plan and drives the critical path.
• Ensure all unused materials are returned to stores and the equipment’s are sent for refurbishment.
• Assist Outage Manager to smoothly close out the termination phase by providing the appropriate planned versus actual dates, actual spend of consumables, materials and the equipment’s etc.

• Experience in planning engineering maintenance activities / planned outages.
• Experience in using planning / scheduling tool.
• Experience in preparing work packs.
• Ability to interpret plans / situations / issues to clearly define & direct actions to achieve a successful outcome.
• Role model in ensuring HSE compliances and ability to change a positive HSE culture.
• Experience with planning and associated IT tools (Primavera P6 and SAP PM).
• A strong broad technical engineering knowledge.
• Previous experience in planning & executing major outages in a comparable industry (chemistry, petrochemicals and nuclear etc).
• Stakeholder management.
• Outage planning experience.
• Costing and budget experience.

Whilst this role offers a competitive base pay, at Syngenta we value total reward which includes the benefits we offer to our employees. We support well-being, offering comprehensive benefits including flexible working, generous holiday entitlement, discretionary bonus scheme, competitive pension scheme, private medical insurance and employee assistance programme.

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