Regional TA Maintenance Planner in Houston, Texas at ECOSERVICES

Backed by an over 130-year history, Ecovyst has evolved into a platform of leading sulfur solutions united by a shared commitment to reliability, innovation, and performance. We have carefully cultivated our reputation as a premier provider of virgin sulfuric acid, sulfuric acid regeneration services, and sulfuric acid derivatives. We provide specialty grade high-purity virgin sulfuric acid for a number of diverse and growing end uses. Among them are mining, particularly copper for electronics applications, production of electric vehicles and the ongoing expansion of data centers across the globe, and industrial applications including our customers’ production of nylon precursors, production of lead acid batteries for all types of vehicles, industrial and municipal water treatment, and refining and petrochemical processes.

• Ecoservices provides sulfuric acid regeneration, produces virgin sulfuric acid, and offers chemical waste handling and treatment services
• Calabrian produces high-value sulfur dioxide and derivative solutions, enabling us to serve a broader set of essential industries
• Chem32 sulfides and activates catalysts for refining and renewable fuel processes

What we offer:

• Competitive pay
• Full benefit package
• 401k matching
• Tuition Reimbursement

Position Summary:

The Regional Turnaround Maintenance Planner will be responsible for providing technical leadership, focusing on equipment reliability along with proactive and predictive maintenance best practices.

What you will be doing:

• Provide year-round, regional turnaround planning and scheduling for the sulfuric acid manufacturing and regeneration sites in Texas (based in Houston; covers Baytown).
• Maintain the rolling 18+ month front-end loading (FEL) planning pipeline for assigned turnarounds, sequencing milestones backward from each event start to define gate dates for scope freeze, contracting, materials, and schedule baseline.
• Lead and document constructability and scope-challenge reviews so that work content is justified, right-sized, and aligned with run-length and reliability strategy before it enters the schedule.
• Develop complete, field-ready work scopes and step-level job plans (task sequence, craft mix, crew sizes, labor hours/durations, and hold and inspection points) using equipment history, inspection findings, mechanical-integrity requirements, and Operations input.
• Define supporting requirements for each job: isolation/blind lists, lockout/tagout, scaffolding, insulation, rigging and lift plans, NDE, machining, bolt torque/tensioning, and specialty services (catalyst, refractory, coatings).
• Develop detailed bills of material (BOMs) and self-contained job packages for every work order, and create and maintain the corresponding SAP PM work orders, operations, and BOMs.
• Establish and maintain reusable job-plan templates and planning norms for repetitive equipment (exchangers, towers, drums, valves, PSVs, rotating equipment) to standardize planning across the region.
• Support the Enterprise TA Planner to develop, baseline, maintain, and update integrated, resource-loaded Turnaround schedules in MS Project using the critical-path method (CPM), including critical-path analysis, resource leveling, schedule risk and scenario analysis, look-ahead schedules, and progress S-curves.
• Develop the budget-control estimate for each assigned Turnaround and support the Enterprise TA Planner to track committed and actual cost, forecast cost at completion, and report variance.
• Distinguish expense from capital work within each event and coordinate the capital portion with Capital Projects and Finance.
• Identify long-lead and critical-spare requirements early, drive requisitions to support gate dates, and track materials readiness against the schedule.
• Provide planning and scheduling work direction to Turnaround contractors and specialty vendors, and integrate their schedules and resource plans into the master event schedule.
• Translate each work-order BOM into job-specific material kits built and staged to the schedule sequence, and track kit status (planned, reserved, on order, received, kitted, staged, issued) against schedule milestones.
• Support the local Storeroom Supervisor to establish and manage a segregated, locked, and access-controlled Turnaround warehouse/lay-down area, including receiving inspection, positive material identification (PMI), segregation by event/unit/work order, issue and return control, SAP reconciliation, and closeout.
• Support the assigned site during the execution window by capturing daily progress and planning and executing scope-change and discovery work.
• Support the local site to maintain Turnaround data files, schedule libraries, planning templates, and norm databases; benchmark performance and standardize best practice across the regional sites.
• Build personal-safety, process-safety (PSM/RMP), mechanical-integrity, and inspection requirements into work packages and the schedule as scheduled hold points verified before equipment returns to service.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of turnaround / shutdown planning and scheduling in refinery, petrochemical, chemical, or comparable heavy-process facilities; 7+ years and multi-site or regional planning experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrate strong (written and verbal) communication, customer service, and decision-making skills.
• Possess competent computer skills with working knowledge of MS Office programs with primary focus on MS Project and associated tools.
• Be a team player and build productive and positive working relationships with cross-functional teams.
• Handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Works well under pressure – ability to meet tight deadlines with quality results.
• Must be able to obtain a TWIC card.