Job ID: 11881
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 05/01/2026
Job Description
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Description:
To provide real-time cost visibility, budgeting accuracy, and financial discipline during the planning and execution phases of a scheduled plant turnaround. This role bridges the gap between field execution and corporate accounting.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Pre-Turnaround Planning
- Budget Development: Assist the TAR Manager in creating detailed cost estimates based on the work scope.
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Establish the WBS and cost codes to ensure every dollar spent is tracked to a specific piece of equipment or task.
- Contract Review: Review commercial terms for vendors and contractors to understand rate structures (ST, OT, DT) and equipment rentals.
- Daily Cost Tracking: Collect and validate daily “lemons” (Labor, Equipment, Material) from contractors.
- Burn Rate Analysis: Compare actual daily spend against the planned baseline to identify overruns immediately.
- Accruals: Prepare daily/weekly financial accruals for the corporate finance team.
- Change Order Management: Evaluate the cost impact of “discovery work” and ensure proper authorization before spend occurs.
- Final Cost Report: Reconcile all invoices against field-verified data to produce a final expenditure report.
- Variance Analysis: Explain why the event went over or under budget (e.g., “Scope creep in Unit 3 led to a 10% overrun”).
- Benchmarking: Capture data to improve the accuracy of the next TAR cycle.
- Technical Mastery of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs), SAP/Oracle, and Primavera P6.
- Experience 5+ years in industrial construction or maintenance, specifically within petrochem or refining.
- Soft Skills High pressure tolerance, “assertive diplomacy” when dealing with contractors, and extreme attention to detail.
