Planning & Scheduling Lead

Are you our next creator of change? 

This is for you who wants to have a real impact on creating a healthier planet for our children every day. At Neste, you will be working for the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. Let’s create transformation for a sustainable future together.

We are looking for you,

Planning & Scheduling Lead

to our Maintenance team at the Singapore refinery!

You will focus on leading a team of planners and schedulers for site wide operations on maintenance and turnaround work.  In this job you will work closely with Area Leads, Common Maintenance Services Lead, TA Lead, Production Operations, Technical Department, Projects  and in-house Contractors.

In our team, you will experience a culture of collaboration and positive spirit within. You will also enjoy joining the ramp up of SAP in early 2025. Together with you and your expertise, we can make an impact today and keep our promises for tomorrow.
 

Reasons to join

Real impact right now. We work in an inspiring and evolving business environment, where everything we do serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. To drive a growing impact as a global leader in renewable and circular solutions we live by our values every day; we care, we have courage, we cooperate.

Safety and caring. We value safety always and everywhere. We want our work to feel good and do good. At Neste, we nurture a culture where everyone is welcome and feels safe, respected, and encouraged to be their unique true selves. 

Exciting growth. Transformation brings new possibilities and fosters our courage and curiosity. As a global growing company, we support personal development with versatile learning and career opportunities. Collaboration is the key, and we believe in flexible, smart ways of working. 

More about the job

Your role in our team :

• Lead work preparation for all work orders. Building/Using a library of comprehensive task lists for Maintenance and TA planning. Keeping right level of Backlog which is tied to Reliability performance of the plant

• Manage SIMOPS between maintenance Turnaround (TA) and maintenance Projects both during Business as Usual (BAU)/Turnaround (TA) periods. 

• Publish lookahead and daily schedule , enabling integrated activities planning/scheduling to achieve resource optimization/efficiency across all site activities.

• SAP Super user and Maintenance process owner. 

• Manage multicraft planners and schedulers to handle BAU, TA and facility work planning, based on the priority set and backlog health.

• Drive continuous improvement in planning and scheduling via task list development/utilisation, standard jobpack, accuracy in planning vs actual and other key activities

• Ensure accurate Service contractor management across whole refinery

Keys to success in this role:

• Engineering Degree with 10 years relevant experience in OIl and Gas industry or Engineering Diploma with 15 years relevant experience

• 2-3 years experience in managing a Team 

• Maintenance, TA and projects process knowledge

• Capability to mix short- and long term thinking based on business priorities

• Proven experience from complex stakeholder environments

• KPI reporting

Other strengths we value are openness, willingness to learn and collaborative team spirit in a complex stakeholder environment.

Let’s get you started

Wondering whether we are a match or not? Take a short test at neste.com/game.

We look forward to receiving your CV and application by October 2024. 

We will do our best to contact you within 2 weeks after the application time has ended. The recruitment process will include interviews and a possible aptitude assessment. The first interviews are preliminarily scheduled to take place during the application period.  (The person selected for the position must pass a health examination including a drug test. A security clearance is obtained with their consent.)

About Neste
Neste creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. With over 75 years of refining expertise, we are now the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. We have set aspirational targets for climate, biodiversity, human rights, as well as our supply chain and raw materials. Our ambition is to make the Porvoo oil refinery in Finland the most sustainable refinery in Europe by 2030. Together with our partners we are aiming at a carbon neutral and nature positive value chain by 2040. Our success is created by 5,400 professionals working in 16 countries. Read more: neste.com.  Get inspired by our story.