Turnaround Lead, Ponca City Refinery

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The Turnaround Lead is responsible for managing the planning, execution, and successful completion of turnarounds at the Ponca City Refinery. This critical role ensures that turnaround activities are executed on time, within budget, and in full compliance with safety, quality, and operational standards. The Turnaround Lead will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage resources, track project milestones, and maintain turnaround schedules to minimize downtime and optimize refinery performance. This position requires strong leadership, technical expertise in refinery operations, and a focus on continuous improvement to drive efficiency and safety during turnaround events.

Responsibilities May Include :

• Develop and maintain evergreen work scopes, estimates, job plans, and schedules for each unit within the turnaround process, ensuring that all plans are aligned with company standards and best practices
• Lead and oversee milestone compliance throughout each turnaround project, ensuring timely and accurate execution
• Manage the pre-planning phase, including scheduling, contract strategy development, sourcing craft labor, and logistics for all turnarounds and catalyst changes
• Collaborate with Area teams to define and refine turnaround and catalyst change scopes
• Assemble and lead cross-functional pre-planning and execution teams to ensure smooth project flow
• Ensure compliance with turnaround milestones and manage the forecasting of turnaround budgets both during and post-project
• Drive continuous improvement by implementing effective turnaround work processes, metrics, and training across teams
• Proficiency in reading and interpreting P&IDs
• Optimize resource utilization to ensure efficient and cost-effective turnaround execution
• Partner with the Turnaround Manager to maintain and optimize turnaround standards and procedures

Critical Skills :

Leadership Criteria :

Required Qualifications :

Travel up to 5% of the time

Preferred Qualifications :

The Ponca City Refinery is located in Ponca City, Oklahoma, approximately 95 miles northwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. The refinery processes a mixture of light, medium and heavy crude oil delivered via pipeline from Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, the U.S. Rockies and Canada. Infrastructure improvements have enabled the delivery of locally produced crude oil by pipeline and truck. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels and anode-grade petroleum coke. Refined products are primarily distributed to customers by company-owned and common carrier pipelines to markets throughout the Midcontinent region.

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To be considered

In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 02 / 18 / 2025 .

Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

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