Manager, Turnarounds

Overview:

Pembina’s Maintenance team is actively hiring a Manager, Turnarounds. Reporting to the Director, Maintenance, the Manager plays a key leadership role in the governance, planning, readiness, execution, and continuous improvement of Pembina's turnaround and outage program.

The Manager will lead a geographically dispersed team responsible for turnaround planning, scheduling, controls, logistics, and portfolio management across Pembina’s assets. The role will establish consistent enterprise governance, standards, planning and readiness practices, contractor strategies, and performance measures to enable safe, predictable, and cost-effective turnarounds. Working closely with Operations, Maintenance, Safety, Supply Chain, Engineering, and asset management teams, the Manager will ensure turnarounds are effectively prioritized and planned, with strong alignment and transition to Operations for execution.

As a key Leader and contributing Manager you will be instrumental in advancing a One Pembina approach to turnaround delivery in support of Pembina’s 3C Strategy by driving standardization, strengthening outage readiness, improving cost and schedule predictability, and enhancing contractor performance. Through disciplined planning, enterprise governance, and continuous improvement, the role will strengthen cost competitiveness, operational consistency, and organizational capability, while partnering with local facility teams to leverage asset knowledge, operational expertise, and field leadership during turnaround execution.

Pembina’s Operations organization is responsible for the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of all assets across the company. Operations span both field‑based teams and centralized / control center functions, working together to ensure continuous, compliant, and high‑performing asset execution across Pembina’s footprint.

Responsibilities may include but not limited to:

• Establish and maintain the enterprise turnaround governance framework, standards, processes, and performance expectations;
• Drive consistent turnaround planning and execution practices across all business areas;
• Develop long-range turnaround strategies, schedules, and priorities aligned with business objectives, asset risk, and regulatory requirements;
• Optimize turnaround scope, frequency, and execution strategies to maximize value, asset reliability, and operational performance;
• Lead and provide direct oversight of the turnaround planning phase, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, risk, resources, contracting strategies, and execution readiness are fully developed prior to handover to Operations;
• Partner with execution leaders and Operations teams to support a structured transition from planning into field execution, ensuring clear accountabilities, execution readiness, and continuity throughout the turnaround;
• Support Operations and execution leaders during field execution by providing turnaround expertise, governance, performance visibility, and escalation support while maintaining Operations’ accountability for safe and effective execution;
• Monitor turnaround schedule, cost, productivity, safety, quality, and emerging risks, providing visibility and recommendations to Operations and leadership to support successful delivery;
• Work with key partners to develop enterprise strategies for contractor utilization, resource planning, procurement, and cost management;
• Manage communication, alignment, and accountability across leadership, Operations, execution teams, and supporting functions to ensure successful delivery of business objectives;
• Build and mentor turnaround planners, execution leaders, Operations coordinators, and technical resources to strengthen turnaround capability across the organization.
• Support workforce planning, succession development, and capability growth in turnaround management practices;
• Champion Pembina’s Zero by Choice safety culture and Life Saving Rules by embedding physical, psychological, and cyber safety into all work practices while taking personal accountability to maintain compliance, support audit readiness, proactively identify risks, and protect our people, assets, and data; and
• Support and contribute to a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace by building productive working relationships, sharing technical knowledge, supporting team members, and demonstrating professionalism and respect in day-to-day interactions.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience leading large-scale turnarounds, outages, or major maintenance events in complex industrial or operating environments;
• Demonstrated experience developing organizational capability, structure, and accountabilities across turnaround planning and execution phases, including effective transition from planning teams to Operations and execution leaders;
• Demonstrated expertise in:

• • Turnaround strategy, planning, readiness, and execution;
  • Scope development, optimization, and challenge;
  • Cost estimating, forecasting, and cost controls;
  • Integrated scheduling and resource planning;
  • Risk identification, mitigation, and readiness assessments;
  • Contractor strategy and management;
  • Stage-gate governance and assurance;
  • Deliverable management, performance reporting, and escalation of emerging risks; and
  • Continuous improvement and application of lessons learned across future turnaround planning cycles.

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams in complex, high-risk operating environments;
• Strong understanding of turnaround economics, cost drivers, productivity measures, and value optimization;
• Demonstrated ability to manage communication, deliverables, risks, and accountabilities across multiple levels of the organization, providing clear visibility to senior leadership while driving alignment and follow-through with Operations, execution leaders, and supporting teams;
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across functional and organizational boundaries; and
• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset with the ability to translate lessons learned into improved standards, processes, and future turnaround performance.

Pembina’s Flexible Work Standard provides the option for eligible employees to work remotely on Fridays.