Turnaround/Outage Execution Coordinator and System Owner

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Turnaround/Outage Execution Coordinator and System Owner

Are you the kind of person who is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Turnaround/Outage Execution Coordinator and System Owner to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty ingredients business at our Hopewell, VA site.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Outage function.

This position will report to the Maintenance Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:



* Turnaround / Outage Governance & System Owner
+ Own the site turnaround and outage management process, workflow, templates, and governance standards
+ Maintain the integrated milestone schedule, stage-gate requirements, decision rights, and readiness criteria
+ Define roles, interfaces, and required deliverables across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, EHS, Supply Chain, and contractors
+ Maintain system documentation, user guidance, and improvement backlog for the outage process


* Scope Development & Challenge Coordinator
+ Coordinate scope collection, screening, clarification, and approval using established outage scoping rules
+ Facilitate scope challenge sessions and documentation - include deferral, rejection, and contingency decisions
+ Control late scope additions through formal review of risk, resources, schedule, and cost impact


* Integrated Planning & Readiness Leader
+ Coordinate development of the integrated plan for work packages, materials, contractors, permits, isolations, scaffolding, lifting, inspection, and startup support
+ Establish readiness reviews and track constraints, open actions, and milestone completion
+ Confirm logic ties, sequence, access requirements, resource loading, and work-area coordination are reflected in the schedule
+ Escalate readiness gaps that threaten safe, efficient, or timely execution


* Execution Coordination & Control Leader
+ Lead outage execution coordination
+ Facilitate turnover, daily coordination meetings, field status reviews, and priority alignment
+ Maintain visibility of schedule progress, constraints, emergent work, critical path movement, and recovery actions
+ Coordinate timely decisions while preserving established approval, safety, and quality requirements


* Schedule, Cost & Performance Controller
+ Maintain outage performance reporting for schedule, critical path, earned progress, labor, contractor usage, cost, sc...