Plant Manager - Deer Park

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About the Role

The Plant Manager is responsible for all aspects of Plant Operation and Maintenance, including P&L responsibility. This role involves maintaining a competent, well-trained staff, ensuring plant safety, training, environmental compliance, policy administration, and purchasing authority for required materials and services. The Plant Manager maintains good relationships with customers and the community and supports the execution of Gas Plant Strategy in a dynamic financial climate.

Responsibilities

• Supports and emphasizes the importance of safety and environmental programs and ensures regulatory compliance.
• Promotes productivity and teamwork with open communication, timely decision-making, and leadership skills to set high standards of performance.
• Promotes and supports the development of technical leadership and business skills of employees to carry out responsibilities in a competitive environment.
• Responsible for matrix communications to NRG management and site owners.
• Provides regular feedback to employees on their performance to allow them to capitalize on strengths and focus on opportunities for improvement.
• Creates and supports an organizational culture that encourages employee involvement, innovative thinking, adaptation to change, responsible risk-taking, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
• Formulates strategies that support the overall NRG strategy and manages development, implementation, and execution of assigned area goals, objectives, and initiatives.
• Manages all business aspects of the assigned area to maximize the competitive position of the plant, including operational performance, staff development, and cost management.
• Responsible for O&M budget development, tracking, and control, as well as generating monthly and other reports as required by the owner.
• Reviews organizational performance with constituents and addresses opportunities for improvement regularly.
• Manages the evaluation and selection of external service providers and oversees their work in support of organizational objectives.
• Assigns work and holds employees accountable for their performance.
• Develops and maintains professional relationships with organizations external to the plant.
• Ensures appropriate technical expertise related to the assigned area of responsibility is available and provided to constituents in a timely manner.
• Manages development and execution of standards, guidelines, programs, and procedures within the assigned area of responsibility.
• Uses and maintains technical and professional knowledge, shares that knowledge with others, and recognizes/applies new technology cost-effectively.
• Obtains and applies knowledge of competitive business practices in daily work activities and decision-making.
• Seeks and understands organizational needs and focuses on meeting and exceeding these requirements.
• Anticipates, accepts, and successfully implements necessary changes in the organization and adapts to meet new requirements.
• Ensures a safe and environmentally compliant workplace.
• Accepts accountability for own decisions, performance, behavior, and the performance of assigned staff.
• Effectively interfaces with regulatory, political, business, civic, and public representatives consistent with NRG corporate objectives.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline, and 10 years of equivalent experience in a related technical field; or a minimum of 14 years of experience in a related technical field.
• MBA preferred.
• Demonstrated record of successfully leading/supervising employees in a related field.
• Knowledge of Human Resources, Labor, and Employee Relations.
• Required to obtain a TWIC card for plant entry.

Skills

• Uses and maintains technical and professional knowledge, shares that knowledge with others, and recognizes/applies new technology cost-effectively.
• Obtains and applies knowledge of competitive business practices in daily work activities and decision-making.
• Seeks and understands customer/client needs and focuses on meeting and exceeding their expectations.
• Anticipates and accepts changes in the organization and adapts to meet new requirements.
• Committed to making the workplace safe and environmentally sound.
• Willing to accept accountability for own decisions, performance, behavior, and the performance of assigned employees.

Working Conditions

• Normal office environment and/or power plant environment.
• Requires operation of a motor vehicle; Texas Driver’s License.
• Work overtime and non-standard working hours as required.
• Requires occasional travel outside the service area.
• Occasionally requires wearing personal protective safety equipment (respirators, safety glasses, hard hat, appropriate footwear, ear plugs, etc.).
• May be required to work around rotating and energized equipment, hazardous materials, and chemicals.
• Requires standing, sitting, walking, kneeling, twisting, climbing stairs and ladders, and entering plant equipment.
• Requires operation of a personal computer.
• Occasionally requires lifting as appropriate to perform duties and responsibilities.