Shutdown Planner

The primary purpose of this role was to estimate, plan and schedule all work activities for the 2011 shutdowns at the Caltex oil refinery, Kurnell.

Rheniformer Unit (CDU Cluster):

Duration                39days

Magnitude             48,296mhrs

Budget Cost          $13.5m

Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU):        

Duration                58days

Magnitude             69,615mhrs

Budget Cost          $21m

Responsibilities include:

• Physically evaluate the scope of work on site, interpret the description of requirements and estimate utilising traceable documentation, facilitated by Estimating Norms and Estimating Guides.
• Enter en masse details of job activities into Primavera 6 (V7.0), apply logic to relationships, add resource requirements to activities and include codes for specific grouping, sorting and filtering.
• Liaise with Process and Operations personnel to identify shutting-down and starting-up activities and tie-in logic to maintenance window plan.
• Work with Superintendents and Project engineers to develop work delivery methodologies and construct abilities for all critical and sub-critical work fronts.
• Facilitate workshops to identify potential problem analysis upon critical work fronts, produce contingency plans and optimise the plan with respective stakeholders.
• Develop sub-contract scopes of work from the plan to produce tendering documents for all applicable disciplines and re-enter the tender response data.
• Perform resource leveling and smoothing of histograms within milestone parameters to establish quantity of labour requirements and produce efficient workflow.
• Production of P10, P50 and P90 plans to determine KPI schedule measures.
• Establish baseline data for tracking evaluation, utilise milestones to communicate dates of objectives and undertake what-if analysis.
• Apply supervisor splits to plan and construct 3 day look-a-head reports, create progress s-curves to reflect earned value and to conduct trend analysis.
• Enter feedback data from supervisors to a provide status update and lead discussions to focus attention to areas of need.
• Control of emergent reactive work for segregation of reporting.
• Completion planning reports for client archiving and close-out.