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, scope change, and forecast completion
•Coordinate status updates from work owners and validate field progress against the execution plan
•Analyze variances and facilitate recovery planning for material schedule or cost deviations
•Provide concise, decision-focused updates to outage leadership and plant management
•Quality, Inspection & Turnover Coordinator
•Coordinate inspection priorities, quality hold points, repair documentation, testing, punch lists, and turnover requirements
•Confirm completed work packages contain required acceptance results, redlines, certificates, and technical records
•Facilitate resolution of nonconformances and incomplete work before equipment release
•Coordinate structured handoff from maintenance execution to Operations for commissioning and startup
•Startup, Closeout & Continuous Improvement Owner
•Coordinate mechanical completion, system walkdowns, commissioning readiness, startup support, and post-startup monitoring
•Lead outage closeout activities including cost reconciliation, schedule review, remaining-work transfer, and contractor demobilization
•Facilitate lessons-learned reviews and convert findings into assigned improvements to standards, templates, strategies, and future plans
•Maintain historical outage records, performance trends, benchmarks, and action completion status
In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:
•5-10 years in manufacturing supporting Maintenance/Operations/Outage Execution
•HS Diploma or equivalent
•Extensive outage operations experience
•Demonstrated responsible and ethical behavior at all times
The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit :
•PMP certification
•Microsoft Project experience
•Experience managing large industrial projects
•Third party recruiters and agencies (“Agency”) should not contact employees of Ashland or its subsidiaries directly. Any resumes sent by an Agency to a hiring manager, recruiter or submitted to Ashland’s career portal are considered unsolicited and property of Ashland. Ashland will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, unless the Agency has a signed contract with Ashland’s Human Resources/Procurement department in advance of submitting a candidate for consideration. Verbal and written approvals will not be considered a valid contract for service.
In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.
Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE: We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.