Turnaround Sheduler Daily Schedule

The Turnaround Scheduler is probably one of the most stressful and demanding roles during the outage. When many of the leadership team has called it a day the scheduler is updating data, ensuring relationship integrity, understanding an evolving critical path and ensuring the reports truly project reality and forecast milestone events. After all has been completed for the past schedule update the schedule should identify and qualify issues as well as constraints and act as a medium to predict and manage risks. Consequently the role, as I am familiar with, is not limited to inputting data and publishing a report at the end of each shift alone. In order for the schedule to be effective it must provide a realistic projection of effort completed along with the forecasted duration remaining. One of the challenges is the fidelity of each of the disciplines updates. To maintain confidence it is prudent for the Scheduler to walk through the site at least once per day to review areas of concern and provide extra information to better understand potential risks and opportunities. To provide established outputs or results the Turnaround Scheduler typically works a predefined schedule similar to the following outline.

6:00 AM
> Nightshift supervision projects the status of the work until the end of the shift and updates the remaining duration of schedule activities performed.
> The completed schedule updates of activities performed will be turned over to the scheduler for updating the Turnaround Schedule

6:00-6:30 AM
> Updates have been received from supervision
> Turnaround Schedule activity updates are inserted into software
> Updated Schedules are printed for Dayshift

7:00 AM
> Nightshift Ends

7:30 AM
> Dayshift Starts

6:30-8:30 AM
> Information gathering and report preparation for TAR Steering Committee Meeting

8:30-9:15AM
> Site Tour

9:30 AM
> Daily (Mon-Fri) TA Progress review meeting with TAR Steering Committee Meeting

10:00-2:30PM
> Schedule integrity checks and reporting maintenance
> Site Tour

2:30 PM
> Dayshift supervision projects the status of the work until the end of the shift and updates the remaining duration of schedule activities performed.
> A copy of the projected updates will be turned over to the scheduler at the scheduler’s office before 2:30PM

2:30-3:30 PM
> Information gathering and report preparation for Daily TA Meeting

3:30-4:00 PM
> Daily TA Core Team Meeting

5:00 PM
> Dayshift supervision projects the status of the work until the end of the shift and updates the remaining duration of schedule activities performed.
> A copy of the projected updates will be turned over to the scheduler at the scheduler’s office before 5:00PM

5:00-6:30 PM
> Updates have been received from supervision
> Turnaround Schedule activity updates are inserted into software
> Updated Schedules are printed for Nightshift

7:00 PM
> Dayshift Ends

7:30PM
> Nightshift Starts