Turnaround & Major Maintenance Scheduler

- Pay Rate: $66.00 to $85.00 for /hour, depending on experience
- Contract: Start Date 12/01/2026 End Date05/31/2027 (6 Months)
- Location: Foster Creek, AlbertaFly In Fly OutSchedule Tuesday - Tuesday
- (6 hours on Travel days, 12 hours on workdays) Rotating Days Only
- Travel and Accommodation Provided.
- This site offers Flight and Bus options
- Flight hubs: Calgary and Edmonton
- Bus Hubs: Lac le Biche and LaCorey
- Camp accommodation provided

Raise is currently hiring a Turnaround & Major Maintenance Scheduler on behalf of our client. They're expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our Client, the third largest producer of Canadian oil and natural gas and the second largest refiner and upgrader with extensive midstream and downstream infrastructure.

Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.

Description

Accountable for developing and maintaining an integrated P6 execution schedule for Turnaround and Major Maintenance events across the Oil Sands assets, including schedule logic, critical path, resource loading, optimization, progress measurement, and schedule compliance. The Scheduler integrates Operations, Maintenance, Projects, contractors, and supporting resources to ensure the event is executable, appropriately resourced and positioned for secure, efficient execution.This role will support all 4 oil sands sites- Christina Lake, Foster Creek, Sunrise, Christina Lake North

Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain the Master Execution Schedule, integrating Operations, Maintenance,



Projects, Construction, commissioning and start-up activities.
- Develop the work breakdown structure (WBS), activity codes, schedule logic and resource loading required to support effective planning and execution.
- Integrate work package information into the schedule and audit job plans for sequencing, logic, duration, resources and optimization opportunities.
- Finalize and baseline the schedule, establish the critical path, and continuously identify opportunities to safely optimize event duration.
- Determine and monitor resource requirements, availability, utilization, and shift calendars, including capacity and resource levelling.
- Develop equipment utilization requirements for cranes, cleaning equipment and other shared resources, and support logistics planning such as camp requirements.
- Maintain and communicate schedule updates, progress, KPIs, critical-path impacts and schedule compliance throughout preparation and execution.
- Work closely with Turnaround Coordinators, Planners, Operations, Maintenance, contractors, vendors and third parties to ensure scheduled activities and resource requirements are understood and coordinated.
- Track pre-turnaround activities and coordinate work requiring execution by the regular Maintenance organization.
- Support risk mitigation, scope challenge, and regulatory planning,



ensuring schedule requirements align with safety, environmental and regulatory requirements.
- Support development of Turnaround resource estimates, budgets, cost management and annual maintenance budget requirements.
- Participate in preparation and execution meetings, communicating scheduling milestone status, risks and emerging issues.
- Support execution by auditing work progress and adjusting the schedule as conditions, priorities and scope change.
- Support Turnaround close-out, including final reporting and incorporation of lessons learned into future schedules and scheduling practices.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of dedicated Turnaround / Shutdown / Major Maintenance scheduling experience within heavy industrial operations (specifically SAGD, Oil Sands, or Petrochemical facilities). With strong working knowledge of Primavera P6 and integrated, resource-loaded scheduling
- Direct exposure to full-lifecycle event scheduling - from initial scope freeze and work package integration to execution tracking and post-event closeout. Prior multi-site support or SAGD asset experience (e.g., steam generation, well pads, central processing facilities) is a major asset.
- Advanced hands-on proficiency in Primavera P6 for complex, fully integrated, resource-loaded master execution schedules.
- Demonstrated ability to construct and manage WBS hierarchies, activity coding structures, logic networks, earned value tracking, and cross-functional integration (combining Operations, Maintenance, Capital Projects, Construction, and Commissioning into a single master schedule).
- Proven ability to run resource levell

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