TA Planner Supervisor Catalyst Change

Are you a creator of change?

Everything we do at Neste serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. Over the past ten years, Neste’s transformation journey has taken the company from a local oil refining company to becoming a global leader in renewable and circular solutions.

Our purpose pushes us forward to search for new ways to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere, and to innovate circular solutions to reuse carbon again and again. Are you going to help us combat climate change?

Neste Netherlands is part of the Finnish parent company Neste. The plant in Rotterdam produces renewable fuels. Together with 200 colleagues we are working everyday to operate, maintain, and improve the plant in an efficient and safe manner.
 

We are looking for a Turnaround Planner / Supevisor Catalyst to join our Maintenance Team 

You will report to Lead planner/ Execution lead  and responsible for effectively and efficiently coordinates planning, scheduling, cost estimating, resourcing for turnarounds and unit shutdowns and safe execution as a supervisor with main focus on catalyst exchanges in our reactors. Ensures turnarounds planning and schedule are optimum and fully integrated to achieve key deliverables

In your role, you will

• Document turnaround scope collection process. Train key contributors from Operations, Technical, Maintenance, etc. on their roles and expectations in scope identification, collection till scope freeze. Lead & complete scope review and risk assessment.

• Gather backlogged work orders designated for turnarounds from CMMS during turnaround scope collections.

• Develop and document planning basis document to outline assumptions, quality requirements, necessary elements of planning, data transfer method to scheduling tool, etc. Conduct and complete detailed planning incorporating all operations, maintenance, investment projects and HSE activities. Oversee overall planning quality and execute planning plan-to-plan.

• Resource, provide costs estimates and recommend resource requirements to Turnaround Lead.

• Report planning status, estimated completion dates and preparation status to Turnaround Steering Team on a regular basis.

• Document scheduling basis (i.e. productivity assumptions, key milestones, reporting needs, information process flow, planning input, integration strategy, etc.) and priorities to define scheduling process. Include the key structural elements of the schedule (i.e. resource coding, WBS, work order numbering, assumptions, key milestones, logic ties, hold points, etc.) and scheduling software interfaces. Set expectations for planning / scheduling team.

• Establish schedule development milestones (baseline issue, optimization, critical path analysis, level, final schedule, etc.).

• Lead constructability reviews, critical path analysis, planning and schedule optimization reviews. Ensure all maintenance, investment projects & operations activities are fully integrated and optimized. Test productivity assumptions.

• Tie hold points to inspection, QA/QC, PSSR and MOC activities.

• Define and document field schedule progress updating and reporting strategy. Deliver schedule progress training.

• Provide supervision and guidance and reporting over contractors in the execution phase and assure a safe and timely execution of the assigned scope.

You will work closely with various internal stakeholders in Rotterdam and other Neste sites and also external stakeholders including suppliers and experts to ensure turnarounds planning and schedule are optimum and fully integrated to achieve key deliverables.

Our work combines accountability, cooperation, and the desire to develop and renew. Working safely at all times is essential to all of us.

The best combination of experiences, skills and background is

• Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or equivalent qualification

• Minimum 5 - 10 years in process plant turnaround and maintenance activities, specifically in turnaround planning and scheduling and execution supervision.

• Experience in Reactor maintenance and Catalyst change-outs.

• Knowledge of process plant production and maintenance, including contractors supervision & management

• Knowledge of process plant turnaround execution and management, including contracting, safety & quality management. Familiar with turnaround phases, from initial long range planning through to post-turnaround review.

• Project management knowledge, particularly in quick-paced, high intensity and time constrained turnaround environments. Experienced turnaround planner and scheduler, strong in scheduling tools –  Primavera, SAP, etc.

• Familiar with contracts, supply agreements, terms & conditions, able to work & collaborate effectively with contractors, suppliers, vendors and partners.

• Excellent people and communication skills and able to organize, deploy and manage resources effectively.

• Ability to promote teamwork and possess interpersonal effectiveness. A good team player, builds effective cooperation and trustful culture, seek all collaboration opportunities.

• Possess strong situational appraisal skills, able to prioritize actions with alignment to company values and goals and having sense of urgency.

• Ability to coordinate and integrate varied activities with differing focus or objectives effectively in order to achieve common turnaround priorities and goals.

• Strong work ethic with positive attitude and ability to make timely decision through good analytical process & problem solving.

Please submit your application as soon as possible.

If you have any questions regarding the process or the position, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition Partner Jaron Pouwelse via Jaron.Pouwelse@partners.neste.com. The recruitment process will include interviews and possible aptitude assessment.

Join us in creating a healthier planet for our children.

Our success is based on our people who are the driving force behind Neste’s transformation to become a global leader in renewable and circular solutions. We are also committed to carbon neutral production by 2035. The passion that we have for creating a healthier planet for our children is what makes us unique.

We have set high standards for biodiversity, human rights and supply chain. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies.

To carry out our strategy and business growth, our values guide our work. We support, develop and take care of the wellbeing of our people to enable them to grow, innovate and build our future.

We care. We have courage. We cooperate.

At Neste we want our people to feel good and do good. We provide clear and transparent targets, development opportunities, empowering leadership as well as rewards based on role and responsibilities.

The world is going through changes. At Neste our strategy reflects the understanding and mindset that we can be in charge of these changes to serve our purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children.

In the end, it is the people who make the company. We are Neste.

For more information, please visit neste.com.