Maintenance Manager -Channelview, TX

Cogentrix Energy Power Management, LLC; Channelview (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cogentrix Energy Power Management, LLC in Channelview, TX is seeking an experienced maintenance leader to oversee plant maintenance, outages, and capital projects. You will drive safety, reliability, and cost efficiency.

The role requires guiding teams, coordinating contractors, and maintaining schedules and budgets while promoting continuous improvement and compliance with environmental and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of power plant operations or maintenance experience; degree in Engineering, Business, or related discipline from an accredited college or university; 7 years of equivalent experience in a related field
• Experience leading/supervising employees in a related field
• Experience in a gas fire cogeneration plant
• Knowledge of quality processes and formal programs
• Strong leadership skills with an understanding of leadership principles

Responsibilities

• Leads day-to-day performance and coordination of all maintenance as well as capital project work including resource allocation, work interface planning, and the common use shared services.
• Oversee the development of plans, schedules, and budgets for all planned, maintenance, and forced outage work – including scope growth.
• Oversee the selection and use of contractors and vendors to perform outage work in accordance with company policy
• Responsible for the effective use of outage controls, performance reporting, communications, and plan revisions.
• Promotes productivity and teamwork in Maintenance, Engineering and Operations with open communication, timely decision making, and leadership to achieve high performance (precision maintenance).
• Develops and manages maintenance work order backlog lists to support planning and execution of maintenance and forced outages.
• Promotes and supports development of technical, leadership, and business skills of employees to compete in a dynamic environment.
• Maintains focus on continuous improvement and best practices for outage and work management.
• Ensures lock out/tag out program usage and safety procedures are followed.

Skills

Leadership

Safety leadership

Maintenance planning

Outage management

Budgeting

Team leadership

Contractor management

Environmental compliance

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and emphasizes importance of safety and environmental programs by monitoring completion of safety concerns, incident investigation action items, attending required safety and environmental meetings, and supporting plant and company goals.
• Serves as member of plant leadership team and support filling other plant leadership positions on a temporary basis.
• Represents plant as Mechanical Maintenance Authority and process subject matter expert in support of corporate activities and initiatives.
• Coordinates the development and use of work packages routine plant maintenance and for each activity performed during unit outages including all related pre & post outage activities. These packages include labor, material, equipment, Lockout-Tagout, technical support and Quality Assurance requirements.
• Champions the mechanical preventative and predictive maintenance programs
• Oversees the development of plans, schedules, and budgets for all – planned, maintenance, and forced outage work – including scope growth.
• Leads the day-to-day performance and coordination of all maintenance as well as capital project work including resource allocation, work interface planning, and the common use shared services.
• Oversee the selection and use of contractors and vendors to perform outage work in accordance with company policy
• Responsible for the effective use of outage controls, performance reporting, communications, and plan revisions.
• Promotes productivity and teamwork in Maintenance, Engineering and Operations with open communication, timely decision making, and use of personal leadership skills to set high standards of performance (precision maintenance) while providing the direction necessary to achieve that performance.
• Oversee the development and management of maintenance work order backlog lists to support fast, efficient planning and execution of maintenance and forced outages.
• Promotes and supports the development of technical, leadership, and business skills of employees to carry out responsibilities in a competitive environment.
• Provides regular feedback to employees on their performance to allow them to capitalize on their strengths and focus on opportunities for improvement.
• Ensures development and implementation of assigned area goals, objectives, and initiatives.
• Supports and emphasizes importance of safety and environmental programs and ensures regulatory compliance.
• Reviews performance with customers/clients and addresses opportunities for improvement.

Allocates all resources cost-effectively, especially major expenses such as contracted services, craft labor, and overtime; estimates resource needs, monitors spending, and reports assigned-area performance.

• Performs field inspections of job sites and work in progress.
• Ensures development, implementation, and monitoring of work plans and schedules in their area of responsibility.
• Ensures work performed by external service providers is in support of objectives, responsibilities, and contractual agreement.
• Coordinates application of internal and external resources to area of responsibility to support maintenance activities, projects, programs, etc.
• Develops and maintains long-range, equipment-specific outage plans to ensure cost effective maintenance through implementation of predictive, preventive, and cost analysis tools.
• Provides for the performance, coordination, and inspection of outage related work performed offsite at other facilities.
• Responsible for oversight of third-party, contract and vendor coordination including approving charges, bid package evaluation, evaluation and selection process, and scaffolding.
• Coordinates the development and implementation of quality control programs.
• Provides awareness level training for the plant organization on outage planning and performance standards.
• Maintain focus on continuous improvement and employ industry best practices for outage and work management.
• Ensures that employees correctly use the lock out/tag out program in order to promote safe operations and maintenance.
• Develops appropriate shifts, schedules, staffing, and response programs to control costs and enhance response time and performance.
• 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.
• Able to work overtime as needed.
• This position requires the ability to safely use, handle and inspect equipment containing (and perform maintenance near 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 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 80 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.
• This job requires the ability to work outdoors in adverse weather conditions, climb vertical access ladders and stairwells, carry up to 50 pounds and to see, hear, walk and talk effectively. Must be able to wear an air purifying respirator and use other safety equipment as required.

Education/Experience Required

• Minimum of 10 years of power plant operations or maintenance experience or degree in 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.
• Experience in a gas fire cogeneration plant
• Knowledge of quality processes and formal programs
• Strong leadership skills with an understanding of leadership principles