Shutdown Turnaround Jobs in Baton Rouge, LA (NOW HIRING)

We're seeking driven, curious people who bring energy to what they do and see challenges as opportunities to learn and improve. Our team of co-owners values enthusiasm, creativity, and a growth mindset, and we're committed to putting those qualities to work on solutions that matter. If you're ready to grow and make an impact, we'd love to be on your team.
As a Turnaround Readiness Coordinator, you will help prepare client facilities for successful maintenance turnarounds by ensuring instrumentation, control valves, and other critical assets are properly identified, documented, verified, and organized before shutdown activities begin. You'll serve as a key link between maintenance, operations, engineering, project teams, and client representatives while supporting AWC's lifecycle maintenance services across chemical, refining, power, and industrial manufacturing facilities.
Success in this role means delivering complete and accurate asset documentation before shutdown, reducing field delays caused by missing or inaccurate information, improving technician productivity through well-prepared work packages, increasing the percentage of assets verified before turnaround, maintaining high documentation quality, building trusted client relationships, and contributing to safer, shorter, and more predictable turnarounds.
How you'll make an impact:
Prepare Turnarounds for Execution

• Develop asset readiness plans for upcoming turnarounds
• Coordinate field verification activities and support outage planning meetings
• Verify instrument and valve identification before shutdown
• Prepare work packages for maintenance execution
• Identify missing, inaccurate, or incomplete asset information before shutdown activities begin

Verify Critical Field Assets

• Perform field verification of pressure, temperature, flow, level, and analytical instrumentation; automated and manual valves; and instrument accessories
• Verify asset tag numbers, equipment locations, manufacturer and nameplate information, model and serial numbers, equipment condition, accessibility, and installation configuration

Build Complete Asset Documentation

• Maintain accurate equipment photographs, asset locations, field notes and observations, drawing verification, instrument indexes, maintenance records, and QA/QC documentation
• Capture and organize equipment overview photos, identification tags, manufacturer nameplates, installation details, tubing and wiring, valve accessories, and areas requiring maintenance attention
• Maintain consistent naming conventions and documentation standards, and ensure documentation meets company quality standards before release

Protect Data Quality and Readiness

• Review collected information for completeness, accuracy, consistency, missing information, duplicate assets, incorrect tag numbers, and documentation discrepancies
• Escalate issues for engineering review when necessary
• Prepare asset readiness status reports, completion percentages, missing-documentation reports, outstanding field issues, daily progress reports, turnaround readiness dashboards, and quality metrics

Coordinate Across Teams and Improve Execution

• Work closely with instrument and valve technicians, maintenance planners, operations, engineering, client representatives, and project managers to keep assets ready before shutdown
• Coordinate priorities across stakeholders to support turnaround readiness and execution
• Identify and recommend improvements to documentation quality, workflow efficiency, field verification, reporting, turnaround planning, and maintenance readiness
• Help reduce turnaround duration and increase productivity through continuous improvement

Skills you'll need:

• Experience in instrumentation, Engineering Technology, Industrial Technology, or a related field preferred
• Strong mechanical aptitude, attention to detail, organizational skills, and written communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Experience with maintenance management systems such as SAP PM, IBM Maximo, or similar CMMS/EAM platforms
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, loop drawings, instrument indexes, equipment data sheets, and isometric drawings
• Ability to coordinate projects, solve problems, manage time, collaborate across teams, provide strong customer service, and maintain a safety-focused, continuous-improvement mindset
• Instrumentation or valve maintenance background and experience supporting plant turnarounds preferred
• Experience with asset management or digital inspection platforms preferred
• Knowledge of industrial process instrumentation, HART-enabled devices, smart instrumentation, and preventive and predictive maintenance practices preferred

Physical & travel requirements:

• Ability to work in operating industrial facilities and wear required PPE
• Ability to climb stairs and ladders and walk extended distances
• Ability to work outdoors in varying weather conditions
• Ability to lift up to 40 pounds
• Ability to travel to customer sites as required

The Rewards:

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(K) Match
• Competitive Pay
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Package
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
• Career Development Opportunities

About AWC
As employee co-owners, we're driven to do more than complete tasks; we build fulfilling careers by challenging assumptions and continually raising the bar. We embrace creative, innovative approaches to deepen our expertise and deliver real value to our customers.
We partner strategically with many of the world's most recognized technology brands to help engineering, reliability, and maintenance teams solve complex problems. As experts in our partners' technologies, we're equipped to properly size, select, configure, and support the right solutions. Our goal is simple: combine caring, knowledgeable people with innovative technologies to help our customers succeed.
How We Win Together
We are committed to solving customer problems and welcome team members that want to be the trusted resource to those looking for a partner who out-knows, out-cares, and out-serves everyone else. Every day, we strive to deliver on our mission to empower people to make the greatest positive impact for the communities and families we serve together. Our Winning Together culture starts with a shared commitment to building an environment of inclusiveness, trust, and mutual respect. We know that when people like you are safe to pursue your passions, to learn, to serve, and to share in the rewards from our combined efforts, then we are winning together.
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