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Turnaround Planning, Scheduling & Cost Control Masterclass

Turnaround Planning, Scheduling & Cost Control Masterclass

Location
Duration
Online /In-Class
1 week

Sector:

Cross-Industry – General

Technical Focus Area: 

Operational Excellence & Performance (OPEX)

About the Course

Managing shutdowns and turnarounds is a high-stakes, multidisciplinary effort that touches reliability, production, safety, supply chain, and finance. This course synthesizes best practices from seasoned turnaround professionals with emerging industry trends to provide a repeatable framework—covering strategy, scope development, work packaging, scheduling, controls, and closeout.
You will practice building WBS-driven scopes, applying critical path methods to overlapping projects, and setting up cost and progress control that works under real-world constraints. We’ll also tackle contractor engagement, materials logistics, and communication rhythms that keep teams aligned and responsive.
A strong emphasis is placed on safety, quality, and risk management. You’ll learn to integrate HSE and risk insights into planning and execution so the event is professionally rewarding and low-stress—delivering operational readiness with minimal disruption.

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

- Build a team-based, integrated approach to shutdown and turnaround planning and execution.
- Define and control scope using WBS, work packages, and readiness gates.
- Develop resource-loaded, logic-linked schedules using critical path methods.
- Establish budgets, track progress, and control costs and productivity in-flight.
- Plan materials and logistics to de-risk kitting, staging, and laydown constraints.
- Engage and manage contractors effectively, aligning roles, KPIs, and interfaces.
- Embed safety, quality, and environmental management into all STO phases.
- Apply risk management (identify, analyze, mitigate) and integrate it into the master plan.
- Conduct structured closeout for lessons learned and continuous improvement.

Who Should Attend

- Turnaround / Shutdown Managers
- Planners & Schedulers
- Maintenance & Reliability Managers/Engineers
- Operations / Production Managers
- Project / Construction Managers

Course Program

Foundations & Strategy for STO Success

- STO overview, terminology, and event lifecycle (cradle-to-grave)

- Developing a shutdown/turnaround strategy aligned to business goals

- Typical problems and failure modes in STOs—and how to avoid them

- Governance: roles, responsibilities, and decision rights

- Integrated planning rhythms with operations, maintenance, and projects

- Readiness model: stage gates and deliverables by phase

- Communication plans and stakeholder management

- **Activity/Workshop:** Draft a STO strategy map and RACI for your site

Course Dates & Prices

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Location
Starting Date
Price
Enrollment
Online
19/10/2025
1799 $
Dubai (UAE)
20/10/2025
2549 $
Dubai (UAE)
20/10/2025
2799$
Cairo (Egypt)
27/10/2025
2549 $
Online
27/10/2025
1799 $
Online
03/11/2025
1799 $
Dubai (UAE)
10/11/2025
2799 $
Muscat (Oman)
10/11/2025
2799 $
Dubai (UAE)
17/11/2025
2799 $
Online
17/11/2025
1799 $
Muscat (Oman)
24/11/2025
2799 $
Online
24/11/2025
1799 $
Online
24/11/2025
1799 $
Dubai (UAE)
01/12/2025
2799 $
Online
01/12/2025
1799 $
Online
01/12/2025
1799 $
London (UK)
01/12/2025
3299 $
Dubai (UAE)
08/12/2025
2799$
Online
08/12/2025
1699 $
Istanbul (Turkey)
15/12/2025
2799 $
Dubai (UAE)
15/12/2025
2799 $
Online
15/12/2025
1799 $
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
22/12/2025
3899$
Doha (Qatar)
22/12/2025
2799 $
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
22/12/2025
3899$
Online
29/12/2025
1799 $
Dubai (UAE)
29/12/2025
2799$
Istanbul
29/12/2025
2549 $
Online
29/12/2025
1799 $
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