Plant Operations Manager

4 days ago


Orange, Texas, United States Entergy Full time
Job Summary

The Control Room Operations Team Leader is a key role within the Entergy Texas, Inc.-GTX organization, responsible for directing, leading, and supervising a team of operations personnel in a cross-functional, multi-craft, and multi-skilled plant environment at a Fossil power plant. This position champions employee and contractor safety programs, drives continuous improvement in plant operations and maintenance, and actively participates in budget development and the effective management of allocated financial resources.

Key Responsibilities
  • Directs and coordinates plant operations and staffing to meet site production needs.
  • Champions employee and contractor safety programs, drives continuous improvement in plant operations and maintenance, and actively participates in budget development and financial resource management.
  • Provides leadership for and the development of direct reports to support a culture of strong fundamentals of operation and maintenance.
  • Embraces and supports human performance improvement initiatives, including shared understanding of excellence, personal-joint accountability, feedback-coaching exchange, etc.
  • Ensures plant operations/maintenance personnel comply with safe work practices and processes, plant procedures, and efficiently and effectively operate and maintain plant equipment.
  • Develops procedures, checklists, and performance measures to monitor process controls and ensure all operations, maintenance, and regulatory requirements are fulfilled within staff.
  • Develops, implements, and maintains a high standard of performance through the use of operational procedures, operations rounds/trending, shift turnover, protection system functionality, water chemistry, system descriptions, maintenance procedures, etc.
  • Works with system planning organization (SPO) to maximize plant production, schedule unit testing, schedule planned outages, and communicate operational issues and forced outage return to service.
  • Develops and maintains strong relationships with internal and external interfaces and key strategic alliance partners.
  • Maintains an awareness of the latest industry research and practical application to drive continuous improvement.
  • Provides and supports budget/project development and cost control for short-range work plans and long-range strategic planning.
  • Prepares and manages budget in assigned areas to leverage financial processes to manage deviations from the approved annual budget.
  • Initiates and provides leadership in respect to end-to-end contract management/contractor oversight for routine and outage work.
  • Evaluates and champions gap closure actions consistent with the company's overall business strategy.
  • Utilizes prior lessons learned and site pre-commissioning lessons learned to refine and improve operating procedures, training plans, unit operating and bid parameters, alarm management, surveillance testing, work management strategies, and all Operations/Maintenance fundamentals.
  • Provides leadership and technical direction for unit troubleshooting and liaises with vendors, OEMs, and internal/external subject matter experts to improve team and site performance.
Requirements
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Preference for candidate with a bachelor's degree in a technical field such as engineering or equivalent work experience (e.g., 10 yrs of power plant experience).
  • With technical degree: 5+ years of Power Plant Operations/Maintenance or engineering experience.
  • Without degree: 10+ years of power plant experience.
  • Desired: Experience with a fossil power plant.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Extensive knowledge of power plant operating and maintenance practices, equipment maintenance strategies, lock out/tag out or Tagging Procedure, and other safety procedures.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate and work effectively with contractors and outside agencies.
  • Demonstrated ability to actively engage subordinates and other plant personnel to strive for operational excellence.
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills. Excellent communication skills and ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization.
  • Ability to quickly and accurately address complex problems using creative solutions.
  • Has a history of strong accountability for results.
Additional Responsibilities

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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