I&E Turnaround Planner
CF Industries · Iowa
📍 Sergeant Bluff,IAvia workdayFirst listed here 2026-09-17
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At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you’ll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas. You’ll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy. Function:
Maintenance Job Summary:
This position is accountable for providing technical planning support for instrumentation and electrical work associated with plant shutdowns, outages, and turnarounds. The I&E Turnaround Planner is responsible for converting approved turnaround scope into safe, detailed, and executable work packages that support schedule development, material readiness, contractor alignment, and field execution.
The position works within the Work Management Information System (WMIS) and applicable turnaround planning systems to develop detailed job plans, prepare work packages, estimate labor, coordinate materials and services, define testing and commissioning requirements, and support execution readiness. The planner maintains ownership of assigned I&E turnaround work from scope validation through closeout and lessons learned.
The planner works closely with Operations, I&E, Maintenance, Engineering, Reliability, Procurement, Warehouse, Turnaround Management, Contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure turnaround activities are properly scoped, planned, scheduled, and executed. The position is responsible for ensuring work plans incorporate CF standards, government regulations, site safety requirements, applicable codes, manufacturer requirements, and sound instrumentation and electrical maintenance practices.
Job Description:
Key Job Elements
Maintain an orderly flow of assigned turnaround work orders, ensuring approved I&E scope progresses in accordance with established turnaround priorities, milestones, and readiness requirements.
Lead planning activities for assigned I&E turnaround work scopes, including scope clarification, field validation, work breakdown, labor estimates, material planning, contractor requirements, execution sequencing, quality controls, and readiness reviews including reviewing contract planning work packages.
Participate in turnaround worklist development, scope challenge sessions, worklist validation, risk assessments, constructability reviews, schedule reviews, and readiness assessments to ensure work is justified, clearly defined, and executable within the approved outage window.
Conduct detailed field walk-downs with Operations, I&E Technicians, Engineering, Contractors, and other stakeholders to confirm equipment identification, access, isolation boundaries, removal requirements, cable routing, test points, temporary facilities, and work-area constraints.
Develop complete work packages that clearly identify prerequisites, craft steps, labor hours, crew composition, materials, drawings, vendor data, permits, isolations, test equipment, special tools, inspection points, acceptance criteria, restoration requirements, and execution sequencing.
Support turnaround schedule development by providing logical activity breakdowns, durations, predecessor and successor relationships, resource requirements, system turnover needs, and testing or commissioning constraints.
Develop and maintain planning milestones for assigned scopes and promptly communicate risks that could affect engineering completion, material delivery, contractor mobilization, schedule integration, or execution readiness.
Plan work for instrumentation and control systems including transmitters, control valves, analyzers, switches, thermocouples, instrument tubing, junction boxes, control panels, distributed control system interfaces, programmable logic controller interfaces, and safety instrumented system devices as applicable.
Plan electrical work involving motors, motor control centers, switchgear, transformers, variable frequency drives, breakers, relays, heaters, lighting, grounding, cables, terminations, and associated distribution equipment as applicable to the approved turnaround scope.
Ensure work packages identify required calibration, loop checks, functional testing, insulation resistance testing, continuity checks, relay testing, rotation checks, cause-and-effect verification, interlock testing, and other pre-commissioning or commissioning activities appropriate to the work.
Identify and include applicable technical documents such as P&IDs, loop drawings, wiring diagrams, schematics, one-line diagrams, logic narratives, cause-and-effect documents, data sheets, hazardous-area requirements, equipment manuals, and manufacturer instructions.
Coordinate with Engineering to resolve technical questions, drawing discrepancies, design changes, obsolescence concerns, and Management of Change requirements before execution.
Ensure job plans incorporate appropriate electrical safety, arc-flash, hazardous-energy control, grounding, testing, instrument isolation, electrical isolation, permit, and risk-mitigation requirements.
Identify, specify, reserve, and coordinate stock and non-stock materials, spare parts, cables, glands, fittings, tubing, instruments, electrical components, consumables, and job
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