Turnaround Planner

Fife, Scotland | Hybrid Working (3 Days On Site)

Salary: Competitive + Benefits (DOE)

The Opportunity

We are supporting a major infrastructure programme in Scotland and are seeking an experienced Turnaround Planner to join a high-performing project controls team based in Fife.

This role is suited to a planning professional with strong experience in turnaround, outage, shutdown, or major works planning within complex infrastructure or industrial environments. You will play a key role in developing, coordinating, and managing detailed turnaround schedules that support safe, efficient, and well-controlled delivery of critical works.

Working closely with project delivery, engineering, and maintenance teams, you will ensure planning integrity, robust sequencing, and full alignment of resources, scope, and shutdown windows.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed turnaround and shutdown schedules using Primavera P6

• Plan and sequence complex work scopes to ensure safe and efficient delivery windows

• Integrate multi-discipline activities into a fully logic-linked programme

• Identify critical path activities, constraints, and schedule risks

• Support outage/turnaround preparation, execution, and close-out phases

• Coordinate planning inputs from engineering, operations, and contractors

• Monitor progress during execution and update schedules in real time where required

• Produce turnaround progress reports, dashboards, and performance updates

• Support change control and impact assessment during live turnaround periods

• Contribute to post-turnaround reviews and continuous improvement initiatives

About You

Essential Experience & Skills

• Proven experience as a Turnaround Planner, Shutdown Planner, or Outage Planner

• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6

• Experience planning complex, time-critical maintenance or infrastructure shutdowns

• Strong understanding of critical path analysis and resource sequencing

• Experience working in regulated or high-complexity environments (infrastructure, energy, utilities, industrial)

• Strong stakeholder coordination and communication skills

Desirable

• Experience in infrastructure or large capital programme environments

• Familiarity with NEC-style delivery frameworks

• Experience integrating planning with cost or risk functions

• Background in utilities, water, energy, or heavy industry environments

Personal Attributes

We are looking for someone who is:

• Calm and structured under time-critical conditions

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail

• A confident communicator across multiple stakeholder groups

• Proactive in identifying and resolving planning constraints

• Collaborative and delivery-focused in approach

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on a major infrastructure programme in Fife

• Hybrid working arrangement with 3 days per week on site

• Exposure to complex turnaround and shutdown planning environments

• Long-term programme stability

• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Strong opportunity for career development within project controls and planning

Join the Programme

If you are an experienced Turnaround Planner looking to work on high-profile infrastructure works in Scotland, we would welcome the opportunity to speak with you.