Caverns Scheduler

Caverns Scheduler

Dow has an exciting and challenging role for a Caverns Scheduler at Freeport Stratton Ridge Operations (FSR) facility located in Freeport, Texas.

This hybrid role integrates scheduling and cost tracking responsibilities to support FSR operations. In this role, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of an integrated schedule across key functions, including Pipeline, Caverns, Operations, and Maintenance Support. In addition to scheduling, this role is accountable for monitoring site expenditures for each key functions, comparing actual costs against budgeted figures, analyzing variances, and preparing cost reports to support informed decision-making. Collaboration across multiple teams is essential, as the role plays a critical part in ensuring accurate forecasting of both cost and schedule performance at the site.

Stratton Ridge or Salt Dome Operations is a cornerstone for the success and reliability of Texas Operations. 70% of all products produced at TXO hinge upon Stratton Ridge's ability to remain reliable and on-line in order to support Olin chlor-alkali and Dow hydrocarbons. Over the last ten years there has been significant reinvestment to improve reliability and longevity of the infrastructure. Stratton Ridge is a very unique operation for Dow as we not only deal with the typical unit operations of a standard chemical plant, but we also work with underground caverns, drilling technology, and geology as in the oil fields.

This role is aligned to the Diamond Infrastructure Solutions ("Diamond Infra") company and will be seconded from Dow to Diamond Infrastructure Solutions until January 1, 2027. At that time, the role will become directly aligned to the Diamond Infrastructure Solutions Company.

Diamond Infrastructure Solutions is an infrastructure-focused company strategically located in the U.S. Gulf Coast the heart of U.S. manufacturing. The company is comprised of ~2700 employees and contractors that are driven by a customer-first entrepreneurial mindset, offering expertise and turn-key services to more than 70 on-site and off-site customers across the U.S. Gulf Coast. The company is built upon the foundation of Dow's world-leading operational excellence to deliver best-in-class services and reliability.

Our vision is to be the trusted leader in delivering reliable, sustainable, and highly integrated infrastructure services to meet our customers' evolving needs. Our experienced team and extensive asset capabilities provide safe, reliable, and attractive services to support customer growth targets, while delivering bottom line growth.

Our people are the integral ingredient to our culture of employee ownership and excellence-driven core values. An unwavering focus on employee & asset safety and the generational impact to our environment & surrounding communities is critical. Together we will strategically deliver Focused Growth while positioning the organization to leverage industry megatrends for sustained success.

Responsibilities :

• Serves as schedule management focal point for the Caverns group.
• Work with each department at FSR (Caverns, Maintenance, Operations, Projects, SDOT Team) to maintain and update schedule and progress, tracking activities in Primavera master schedule
• Work with Operations team to scheduling cavern interface logs (PND) and sonars to meet RRC rules and regulations. Track total salt produced per each well, and update each interface finding in the Cavern's database. Work with Process Control contact to document completion dates on PND's and Sonars and re-set mining report.
• Maintain a 5 year outlook for regulatory required tasks for scheduling MIT's / workovers by working with plant Geologist to meet RRC rules and regulations.
• Responsible for end of month reports and transactions. This includes brine movement calculation into our NEA system, cost reports, quality data reports, and production of salt vs water for Brock lease Royalities.
• Responsible for updating Olin and Dow budget to forecast the cost for upcoming and in progress work.
• Gather documentation for monthly accruals for Olin and Dow for proper monthly allotment
• Track all Caverns invoices in SAP, interact with each vendor / contractor monthly on any and all invoicing issues, Purchase Order (PO) issues or payments.
• One time PO's and Purchase order creation and close out for upcoming and in progress jobs.
• Create POs for contractors / Vendors. Follow the process through PO approval and PO issued. These POs include Vendors, Equipment Rentals, Contractors, Materials for both Olin and Dow.
• Alerts the caverns team and budget facilitator of critical Cost Management issues.

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