Technical Manager

About the role

Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re all about propelling the next generation of leaders forward. We are driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. We deliver innovative solutions that make our customers' lives easier—helping them power, protect, and intelligently manage their homes and businesses. To do this, we need creative and talented people to join our company.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and emphasizes 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.
• Serves as member of plant leadership team and is capable of acting as temporary plant manager or operations manager as needed.
• Develops, implements, manages, and communicates the station’s technical plan and revises as appropriate.
• Manages the station Management of Change process to ensure compliance and operational reliability.
• Manages stations compliance with corporate procedures, ensuring their full implementation and compliance.
• Provides direction to the station’s Process Specialists to promote technical support for projects / areas of responsibilities at the station.
• Manages the completion and budgetary tracking of capital and O&M projects requiring engineering as well as ensures new technical projects are sound and justifiable that meet the station and owner’s needs.
• Leads support for the development and use of work scope packages for each activity performed during unit outages including all related pre & post outage activities.
• Leads support for the development of work order plan packages that include labor, material, equipment, Lockout-Tagout, technical support and Quality Assurance requirements.
• Leads support for the development of plans, schedules and budgets for all – planned, maintenance, and forced outage work – including scope growth.
• Leads support for day to day performance and coordination of all outage work including resource allocation, work interference planning, and the common use shared services.
• Improves the overall station safety culture by providing leadership, setting a positive example and promoting / enforcing all safety policies and procedures.
• Promotes productivity and teamwork with open communication, timely decision making, and use of leadership skills to set high standards of performance, while providing the direction necessary to achieve performance.
• Assigns work and holds employees accountable for their performance.
• Provides regular feedback to employees on their performance to allow them to capitalize on their strengths and focus on opportunities for improvement.
• Works collaboratively with other departments within the station to ensure that appropriate technical expertise is available and provided to employees / contractors in a timely manner.
• Formulates appropriate strategies that support the overall strategy and manages development, implementation and execution of assigned area goals, objectives, and initiatives.
• Manages development and execution of appropriate standards, guidelines, programs, and procedures within assigned area of responsibility. Assures adherence to technical standards and guidelines.
• Maintains equipment condition and conducts system condition assessments to ensure overall plant reliability and prioritizes equipment maintenance and upgrades.
• Supports budget development, management, and execution. Provides input for monthly expenditure forecasts.
• Provides technical interface for station stakeholders as needed.
• Oversees key projects, processes and performance reports, data and analysis. Develops and implements methods and procedures for monitoring projects such as preparation of records of expenditures and research findings, progress reports, and staff conferences to inform management of current status of each project.
• Manages all business aspects of assigned area to maximize competitive position of the plant including operational performance, staff development and cost management.
• Manages, as necessary, the evaluation and selection of external service providers.
• Manages all work at the station in support of organizational objectives and responsibilities.
• Uses and maintains technical and professional knowledge, shares that knowledge with others, and recognizes/ applies new technology in a cost-effective manner.
• Obtains and applies knowledge of competitive business practices in daily work activities and decision making.
• Sets and meets organizational needs and focuses on meeting and exceeding these requirements.

Working Conditions

• This is primarily an office environment job however the position will require on occasion going into the station or outside areas.
• Those environments will include being around rotating equipment, exposed to high/low ambient temperatures, high humidity areas, in areas with high voltage electrical equipment, high noise areas and elevations up to 400 feet.

Minimum Requirements

• A high school diploma or equivalent and 8 years of experience in a power plant, chemical plant or industrial plant dealing with mechanical equipment including boilers and combustion process, turbines, heat exchangers, condensers, coal handling equipment, compressors, fans, pumps, and ash handling systems and electrical equipment including generators, transformers, power distribution equipment, motors, and electrical protection systems.
• Or a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 7 years of experience in a power plant, chemical plant or industrial plant dealing with mechanical equipment including boilers and combustion process, turbines, heat exchangers, condensers, coal handling equipment, compressors, fans, pumps, and ash handling systems and electrical equipment including generators, transformers, power distribution equipment, motors, and electrical protection systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering.
• Power plant experience.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• The candidate must instill NRG values and demonstrate competencies relative to this position which include accountability, adaptability/flexibility, building credibility, a strong business expertise, customer focus, the ability to empower, develop and gain commitment from others, problem solving, and teamwork.
• Strong human relations, supervisory and communication skills are essential to succeeding in this position.
• Experience in budgeting, project management, project development, and outage scope development preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Requires standing, sitting, walking, kneeling, twisting, climbing stairs and ladders, and entering plant equipment to access, inspect, or collect data on plant equipment.
• 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) lock out/tag out 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 300 feet and more; crawl to the through confined areas; correctly wear and work using air purifying respirator; lift a minimum of 20 pounds in awkward positions and 50 pounds from the floor to the waist.
• Willingness to work and respond to calls outside normal business hours as necessary, especially during a critical issue resolution and to achieve project milestones.