Maintenance Manager
Direct Energy Business · Osceola, AR · 1 mo ago
ManagementFull-time
Responsibilities
- Supervises, monitors, and coaches employees to ensure a productive workforce in compliance with company policies.
- Planner and coordinator of maintenance work, inspections, requisitions for procurement of tools, materials, equipment, and parts.
- Calibration and storage of instrument test and measuring equipment, ensuring personnel is knowledgeable of and in compliance with applicable Standards and Procedures.
- Leadership and emphasis on safety and environmental programs, monitoring safety concerns, incident investigation action items, and supporting EKPI goals.
- Member of plant leadership team, capable of acting as temporary plant manager or operations manager as needed.
- Outage Authority and process subject matter expert, representing plant in support of corporate activities and initiatives.
- Development and use of work scope packages for unit outages, including pre & post outage activities.
- Work order plan packages, including labor, material, equipment, Lockout-Tagout, technical support, and Quality Assurance requirements.
- Outage resource and performance strategies, overseeing all outage work including resource allocation, work interference planning, and shared services.
- Selection and use of contractors and vendors for outage work, ensuring compliance with company policy.
- Effective use of outage controls, performance reporting, and plan revisions.
- Promotion of productivity and teamwork, setting high standards of performance and providing direction.
- Development and management of outage work order lists, promoting technical, leadership, and business skills.
- Regular feedback to employees on their performance, ensuring development and implementation of assigned area goals, objectives, and initiatives.
- Ensuring regulatory compliance, addressing performance with customers/clients, and managing resource utilization.
- Field inspections of job sites and work in progress, recognizing and resolving problems proactively.
- Development and maintenance of long-range, equipment-specific outage plans, implementing predictive, preventive, and cost analysis tools.
- Coordination of quality control programs for outage management and execution.
- Training and awareness level training for the plant organization on outage planning and performance standards.
- Development and maintenance of written outage procedures to improve plant outage performance.
- Maintaining focus on continuous improvement and employing industry best practices for outage and work management.
- Ensuring correct use of the lock out/tag out program for safe operations and maintenance.
- Developing appropriate shifts, schedules, staffing, and response programs to control costs and enhance response time and performance.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of power plant operations or maintenance experience or Baccalaureate degree in an Engineering, Business, or related discipline from an accredited college or university, and 7 years of equivalent experience in a related field.
- Experience leading/supervising employees in a related field.
- Preferred qualifications include experience in a coal fired plant, knowledge of Combined Cycle Power Plant operations, and knowledge of quality processes and formal programs.
- Strong leadership skills with an understanding of leadership principles.
- 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.