Maintenance Coordinator – Smarr Combined Cycle

Oglethorpe Power Corporation; Forsyth (GA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match up to 6%

Company contributes 11% to 401k

Job summary

Oglethorpe Power Corp. is seeking a Maintenance Coordinator to help build and support the maintenance program for Smarr Combined Cycle.

Based in Forsyth, GA, you will plan, schedule, and coordinate maintenance across a major 1,425 MW facility, with a 24/7 operating cycle and ~30% travel. You’ll track work orders in Maximo, coordinate resources, and monitor KPIs to improve efficiency while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent; bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred.
• Eight years of maintenance and outage-management experience in an operating power plant preferred.
• Maximo CMMS experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare, schedule, and coordinate maintenance work, including preventive, predictive, corrective, and special-project activities.
• Build weekly and four-week maintenance schedules, balancing labor, backlog, materials, and contractors.
• Develop work scopes, estimate craft labor needs, coordinate resources, and ensure work packages are ready before scheduling.
• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, outage coordination, contractors, and leadership to resolve planning issues.
• Track work orders through completion in Maximo, capturing labor, materials, costs, downtime, and data.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs and performance indicators to improve planning efficiency and execution.
• Support outage planning, including scheduling, milestones, scope and budget coordination, and post-work reviews.
• Maintain equipment records, drawings, spare parts, manuals, and PM/PP maintenance data.
• Coordinate and direct plant maintenance personnel and contractors during maintenance, troubleshooting, and rehab work.
• Promote safe work practices and compliance with policies, standards, and regulations.

Job description

Maintenance Coordinator – Smarr Combined Cycle

• Forsyth, GA, USA
• 108,160-135,200 per year There is a 20% annual bonus on top of the base salary
• Full Time
• 401k: The company will contribute a match of $0.75 on each dollar an associate defers in a pay period, up to the first 6% of eligible compensation in the pay period. The company also contributes 11% of eligible salary on a per-pay-period basis to the plan.

Oglethorpe Power is seeking a Maintenance Coordinator to help build and support the maintenance program for the new Smarr Combined Cycle Energy Facility, a 1,425 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle plant scheduled to begin commercial operations in June 2029. This role will also support the adjacent, operating Smarr Peaking Plant.

The Maintenance Coordinator will play a key role in planning, scheduling, and coordinating preventive, predictive, corrective, and outage-related maintenance. This is an opportunity to help establish the maintenance processes, work controls, and team routines for a major new generation facility while supporting safe, reliable operations today.

What You'll Do

• Plan, prepare, schedule, and coordinate maintenance work, including preventive, predictive, corrective, and special-project activities.
• Build weekly and four-week maintenance schedules, balancing available labor capacity, backlog priorities, materials, contractors, tools, and equipment.
• Develop work scopes, estimate craft labor needs and durations, coordinate resources, and ensure work packages are ready before scheduling.
• Partner closely with Operations, Maintenance, outage coordination, contractors, and leadership to resolve planning and scheduling issues.
• Track work orders through completion in Maximo, ensuring labor, materials, costs, equipment downtime, cause codes, and other required data are accurately captured.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs and performance indicators to identify opportunities to improve planning efficiency and work execution.
• Support outage planning, including personnel scheduling, milestone tracking, scope and budget coordination, and post-work critiques.
• Help maintain equipment records, drawings, spare-parts information, manuals, and preventive/predictive maintenance program data.
• Coordinate and direct plant maintenance personnel and contractors during assigned maintenance, troubleshooting, modifications, equipment checkouts, and rehabilitation work.
• Promote safe work practices and compliance with applicable corporate policies, reliability standards, and environmental and safety regulations.

What We're Looking For

• High school diploma or equivalent required; bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, engineering technology, or a related field preferred.
• Eight years of maintenance and outage-management experience in an operating commercial power-generation plant preferred.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system; Maximo experience is strongly preferred.
• Candidates with a two-year technical degree and 10 years of directly related power-plant maintenance/management experience, or 12 years of directly related experience, may be considered.
• Strong knowledge of power-plant equipment and systems, including mechanical, electrical, electronic, and instrumentation and controls equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret technical manuals, drawings, blueprints, diagrams, and process documentation.
• Strong planning, organization, analytical, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to coordinate the work of multiple crafts, contractors, and internal partners while managing competing priorities.
• Valid driver's license meeting company insurance eligibility requirements.

This role combines office-based planning with time in an industrial generating-facility environment. Work may involve climbing stairs and scaffolding, working at heights or in confined spaces, exposure to weather, oil, grease, dirt, and high-voltage equipment, and use of required personal protective equipment. The position supports a 24/7 generating operation and includes on-call support during incidents and outages, as needed. Travel is approximately 30%.

Oglethorpe Power is an equal opportunity employer.