Maintenance Manager

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the power plant, ensuring a productive workforce, and maintaining compliance with company policies. This role involves work planning, on-the-job training, arranging for maintenance work, inspections, and requisitions for procurement of tools, materials, equipment, and parts from vendors and services from contractors.

• Provide leadership and emphasize the importance of safety and environmental programs by monitoring completion of safety concerns, SSIP, and incident investigation action items, attending required safety and environmental meetings, and supporting EKPI goals.
• Serve as a member of the plant leadership team and be capable of acting as temporary plant manager or operations manager as needed.
• Coordinate the development and use of work scope packages for each activity performed during unit outages, including all related pre- and post-outage activities.
• Oversee the development of work order plan packages that include labor, material, equipment, Lockout-Tagout, technical support, and Quality Assurance requirements.
• Lead the development and implementation of outage resource and performance strategies to effectively and efficiently perform all outage work.
• Oversee the development of plans, schedules, and budgets for all planned, maintenance, and forced outage work, including scope growth.
• Lead the day-to-day performance and coordination of all outage work, including resource allocation, work interference planning, and the common use of shared services.
• Oversee the selection and use of contractors and vendors to perform outage work in accordance with company policy.
• Responsible for the effective use of outage controls, performance reporting, communications, and plan revisions.
• Promote productivity and teamwork in Maintenance, Engineering, and Operations with open communication, timely decision making, and the use of personal leadership skills to set high standards of performance while providing the direction necessary to achieve that performance.
• Oversee the development and management of outage work order lists to support fast, efficient planning and execution of maintenance and forced outages.
• Promote and support the development of technical, leadership, and business skills of employees to carry out responsibilities in a competitive environment.
• Provide regular feedback to employees on their performance to allow them to capitalize on their strengths and focus on opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure the development and implementation of assigned area goals, objectives, and initiatives.
• Support and emphasize the importance of safety and environmental programs and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Review performance with customers/clients and address opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure all resources are utilized in a cost-effective manner, especially major costs such as contracted services, craftsmen time, and overtime, estimate resource requirements, monitor expenditures, and report on performance of assigned area.
• Assign work and hold employees accountable for their performance.
• Perform field inspections of job sites and work in progress.
• Recognize problems and be proactive in helping to resolve them.
• Ensure the development, implementation, and monitoring of work plans and schedules in their area of responsibility.
• Ensure work performed by external service providers is in support of objectives, responsibilities, and contractual agreement.
• Maintain a working relationship with employees consistent with personnel policies and procedures.
• Coordinate the application of internal and external resources to the area of responsibility to support maintenance activities, projects, programs, etc.
• Develop and maintain long-range, equipment-specific outage plans to ensure cost-effective maintenance through the implementation of predictive, preventive, and cost analysis tools.
• Provide for the performance, coordination, and inspection of outage-related work performed offsite at other facilities.
• Responsible for achieving at or above target scores for company metrics for work management.
• Responsible for oversight of third-party, contract, and vendor coordination, including approving charges, bid package evaluation, evaluation, and selection process, asbestos management, and scaffolding.
• Coordinate the development and implementation of quality control programs for outage management and execution.
• Provide visible and active support for the plant outage program.
• Provide awareness-level training for the plant organization on outage planning and performance standards.
• Develop and maintain written outage procedures to improve plant outage performance and to ensure consistent execution.
• Maintain focus on continuous improvement and employ industry best practices for outage and work management.
• Ensure that employees correctly use the lockout/tagout program in order to promote safe operations and maintenance.
• Develop appropriate shifts, schedules, staffing, and response programs to control costs and enhance response time and performance.
• Develop and maintain plant O&M, Major Maintenance, and CapEx budgets as they pertain to the Maintenance Department.

Minimum requirements:

• Minimum of a high school diploma and 10 years of power plant operations or maintenance experience or Bachelor's degree in an Engineering, Business, or related discipline from an accredited college or university, and 7 years of equivalent experience in industrial processes, refineries, or power plants.
• Experience leading/supervising power plant employees, including bargaining unit employees.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Combined Cycle Power Plant operations.
• Knowledge of quality processes and formal programs.

• Strong leadership skills with an understanding of leadership principles.
• Prefer knowledge of NRG values and corporate goals/objectives.
• Demonstrates behavior that encourages and rewards employee involvement, innovative thinking, adaptation to change, responsible risk taking, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent teamwork skillset with the ability to work harmoniously across organizational boundaries.

• Able to work a rotating shift schedule and to work overtime as needed.
• This position requires the ability to safely use, handle, and inspect equipment containing (and perform maintenance in close proximity to sources of), hazardous energy, hazardous chemicals, and hazardous wastes as those terms are defined under various safety and environmental regulations.
• The position requires the use of appropriate personal protective equipment for the hazards identified above. In the employee's normal immediate work area, this position requires the employee to be routinely familiar with, and to appropriately respond to, the hazards identified above, including, but not limited to, repairs on equipment containing chemicals, containment of chemical leaks, response to electrical interruptions, etc. This response would encompass appropriate personal protection techniques, the following of safety procedures such as (but not limited to) lockout/tagout procedures, and the following of environmental procedures.
• Must be able to frequently climb ladders; enter confined spaces; climb to and work from elevated platforms, ladders, and walkways at elevations of 80 feet and more; crawl to and through confined areas; correctly wear and work using an air-purifying respirator; lift a minimum of 20 pounds in awkward positions and 50 pounds from the floor to the waist.
• This job requires the ability to work outdoors in adverse weather conditions, climb vertical access ladders and stairwells, carry up to 50 pounds, and to see, hear, walk, and talk effectively. Must be able to wear an air-purifying respirator and use other safety equipment as required.