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Turnaround Mastery: Precision Scheduling & Cost Control

Turnaround Gantt showing critical path, crew loading, and cost curve.

Turnaround Mastery: Precision Scheduling & Cost Control

Location
MITC 1029
Duration
Online / In-class
5 Days

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.

Learning Milestones

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.

Professional Audience

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

Modular Syllabus

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
Dubai (UAE)
29/12/2025
2999 $
Online
05/01/2026
2299 $
Online
05/01/2026
2299 $
Dubai (UAE)
12/01/2026
2749 $
Dubai (UAE)
12/01/2026
2999$
Cairo (Egypt)
19/01/2026
2749 $
Online
19/01/2026
2299 $
Online
26/01/2026
2299 $
Muscat (Oman)
29/01/2026
2999 $
Dubai (UAE)
02/02/2026
2999 $
Muscat (Oman)
16/02/2026
2999 $
Online
16/02/2026
2299 $
Online
23/02/2026
2299 $
Dubai (UAE)
23/02/2026
2999 $
Online
02/03/2026
2299 $
Online
09/03/2026
2299 $
London (UK)
09/03/2026
3499 $
Dubai (UAE)
09/03/2026
2999$
Online
16/03/2026
2299 $
Istanbul (Turkey)
16/03/2026
2999 $
Dubai (UAE)
16/03/2026
2999 $
Online
23/03/2026
2299 $
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
23/03/2026
4099$
Doha (Qatar)
23/03/2026
2999 $
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
30/03/2026
4199$
Online
30/03/2026
2299 $
Dubai (UAE)
06/04/2026
2999$
Istanbul
06/04/2026
2749 $
Online
06/04/2026
2299 $
Dubai (UAE)
13/04/2026
2999$
Cairo (Egypt)
13/04/2026
2749 $
Online
20/04/2026
2299 $
Dubai (UAE)
27/04/2026
2999$
Online
27/04/2026
2299 $
London (UK)
27/04/2026
3499 $
Istanbul (Turkey)
04/05/2026
2749 $
Dubai (UAE)
04/05/2026
2999$
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
11/05/2026
4099$
Online
11/05/2026
2299 $
Doha (Qatar)
11/05/2026
2999 $
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