Cycle Manager

Talen Energy; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Talen Energy is seeking a Cycle Manager located in Pennsylvania to lead the Cycle Scheduling team and manage the integrated station schedule. This role involves maintaining schedules, managing work priorities, and ensuring safe execution of operations coordinated with multiple departments.

Ideal candidates should have extensive nuclear plant operations experience, a BS/BE degree, and a valid Pennsylvania driver's license. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential, along with proficiency in scheduling tools like P-6 and Oracle.

Qualifications

• Valid Pennsylvania driver's license required.
• Extensive knowledge of nuclear plant operations.
• Ability to respond and have unescorted access to SSES.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the integrated station schedule management.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment across teams.
• Manage performance assessment and reporting.

Skills

Leadership

Risk management

Schedule development

Communication

Education

BS/BE (or Equivalent Experience)

Tools

P-6

Oracle

QLIK

ActionWay

Job description

Responsibilities

The Cycle Manager is responsible for safe, effective, and risk‑informed development, maintenance, and execution readiness of the integrated station schedule across all modes of operation.

The role controls schedule scope and risk from long‑range development of the online schedule through near‑term turnover to the Work Week Manager, ensuring work is appropriately challenged, prioritized, coded, resourced, and aligned with station risk, plant availability, equipment reliability, radiation exposure, equipment availability, qualification needs, and resource availability.

The Cycle Manager leads the Cycle Scheduling team and facilitates cross‑functional alignment with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Work Week Managers, Outage, Supply Chain/Materials, Performance Improvement, Station Leadership, and External Stakeholders.

Schedule Development, Control, and Risk Management

Maintain the long‑term rolling station schedule that provides the backbone for integrated station schedule development and routine work execution.

Manage work schedule health, including surveillances, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, modifications, corrective and elective work, seasonal readiness scope, and other station commitments.

Control schedule scope changes from long‑range development through execution handoff, including T‑26 through T‑10 schedule windows, balancing station risk, divisional weeks, equipment availability, resource loading, clearances, operational windows, qualifications, and work‑release decisions to support safe and efficient execution.

Routine Work, Surveillance, and Seasonal Readiness

Own and facilitate the station Surveillance program and ensure surveillance, preventive, repetitive, and routine activities are incorporated into the schedule and ready for execution.

Lead the seasonal readiness scheduling process, including incorporation and coding of winter preparedness and other seasonal commitments prior to required completion dates.

Maintain schedule‑of‑opportunities processes to identify windows for opportunistic work, bundled scope, resource leveling, and improved station productivity.

Coordinate with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, System Engineering, Electrical, Finance/Business, and other stakeholders to align identified work with execution windows and station priorities.

Work Screening, Prioritization, and Backlog Management

Own or support work order screening, initial prioritization, deficiency coding, and schedule impact evaluation to ensure work is appropriately challenged before inclusion in the schedule.

Support CAP and ActionWay disposition, action assignment, closure review, and CR/AR screening to ensure schedule‑related corrective actions are timely, assigned, and aligned with station expectations.

Manage and report work order backlog performance, identify adverse trends, and drive backlog reduction strategies with line organizations.

Performance Assessment, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement

Own or support recurring performance inputs and assessments associated with online work management, including T+1 reports, T‑5/T‑2 oversight, PIC data, INPO inputs, and station performance dashboards.

Use data from station systems and reporting tools such as QLIK, Syntempo, Oracle, ActionWay, DLAP, and T+1 products to identify learning, performance gaps, and corrective actions.

Develop, revise, and improve work management procedures, training materials, and process documents.

Leadership, Team Development, and Station Integration

Lead the Cycle Scheduling team and mixed‑discipline station working committees in a manner that builds ownership, accountability, teamwork, and conservative decision‑making.

Train, mentor, and qualify Cycle Scheduling personnel, including development of expectations, working files, cross‑training, and succession strength.

Provide coaching and oversight to Work Week Managers, Discipline Schedulers, and other process users to improve schedule preparation, turnover quality, and execution performance.

Develop and deliver work management training and learning sessions for station users, including Online Work Management T&L, Syntempo/process training, and targeted training for functional groups.

Governance, Interfaces, and Assigned Support

Serve as a primary alternate for the Online Manager in core station leadership forums as assigned, including station health, corrective action, and schedule/production readiness meetings.

Represent Work Management in station committees and review boards as assigned, such as PHC/PHSC, SRMOC, MREP, MRC, CARB/PIRB, control tower/materials readiness, and other governance forums.

Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders such as Talen Marketing, PJM, commercial/customer interfaces, Supply Chain, and assigned scheduling/data‑platform points of contact.

Fill emergency plan and outage assignments and online/outage interface needs.

Basic Qualifications

• Valid Pennsylvania driver's license required.
• Ability to physically respond and have unescorted access to SSES.
• Ability to maintain Emergency Plan position qualifications.
• Extensive knowledge of nuclear plant operations, including Senior Reactor Operator license, Shift Technical Advisor, plant‑specific certification, maintenance, engineering, or equivalent plant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous or current Senior Reactor Operator or Reactor Operator License or Certification, or +5 years non‑licensed operating experience with demonstrated leadership.
• +5 years of supervisory experience in one of the following departments: Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Work Management (or equivalent experience).
• BS/BE (or Equivalent Experience).
• Proficiency with P‑6 – develop work windows, logic ties and resource manpower loading; capable of obtaining various P‑6 reports for both outage and online periods.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to translate schedule risk, performance data, and corrective actions into clear leadership‑level messages.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional teams, facilitate challenging meetings, and drive alignment across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Work Management, and station leadership.
• Proficiency or ability to develop proficiency in station work management and reporting systems such as Oracle, NIMS, PRA, Syntempo, QLIK, ActionWay, DLAP, and related scheduling/performance tools.
• Strong understanding of nuclear work management (INPO AP‑928), online schedule development, station schedule execution, routine work scheduling, and nuclear plant risk management.
• Ability to coach others, hold standards, prioritize competing work, and make risk‑informed decisions in a high‑accountability nuclear environment.

Positions may be subject to pre‑employment, random, post‑accident, and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing, consistent with applicable law.

Talen Energy is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity and the strength it brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, disability, perceived disability, or any other protected characteristic as may be defined by applicable law. For more information visit www.talenenergy.com.