Maintenance Planner

Calpine; Middletown (CA); On-site; USD 98,017 - 124,971; Full time

Job summary

Calpine, America's largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources, seeks a seasoned maintenance planner to ensure the continued operation of critical equipment and systems. You will create and manage schedules, evaluate maintenance and engineering needs, and work with plant management to align resources with production goals.

You will formulate long- and short-term maintenance plans, develop budgets and material requirements, and drive efficiency improvements while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and technical maintenance experience.
• 4–7 years of relevant experience.
• Expert with maintenance software and data management.
• Ability to work independently and exercise good judgment.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule maintenance and operations to meet plant needs.
• Coordinate with plant management and project managers.
• Develop budgets, material lists, and labor hour studies.
• Lead maintenance personnel and manage outages.
• Ensure safety and compliance in planning activities.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Independent judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Outage readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Maximo

Job description

Calpine, a business unit of Constellation Energy Corporation (Nasdaq: CEG), is America's largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources with operations in competitive power markets. With 79 energy facilities in operation, Calpine's fleet has the capacity to generate approximately 27,000 MW of electricity - enough to power approximately 27 million homes. Through wholesale power operations and its retail businesses, Calpine serves customers in 22 states and Canada. Its clean, efficient, modern and flexible fleet uses advanced technologies to generate power in a low-carbon and environmentally responsible manner.

The company was established on the premise that a strong commitment to the environment is inextricably linked to excellence in power generation and corporate responsibility. Since its founding in 1984, Calpine has led the power industry in its unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship. In addition, its renewable geothermal plants use steam generated deep below the earth's surface to produce clean, renewable electricity.

Job Summary

Creates plans that permit the continued operation of equipment and systems affecting the company's business operations to a substantial degree. Responsible for determining, monitoring, and administering maintenance and operation work schedules to meet plant productivity needs. In coordination with plant management and project managers, develops and implements work schedules after evaluating maintenance, operations, and engineering needs. Exercises discretion and independent judgment based on plant operations, maintenance needs, resources, and timing considerations. Involved in planning long- and short-term business objectives involving maintenance, repair, and replacement of equipment. Managers long lead time items. Provides consultation and expert advice to management team on managing resources and material. Investigates and resolves maintenance issues.

Additionally responsible for assessing priority of maintenance requests (both long- and short-term), determining job requirements, and determining appropriate staffing resources. Exercises discretion and independent judgment to integrate plant needs with maintenance/operation resources in developing detailed work schedules and labor hour studies. Formulates maintenance plans, provides budgetary information, material requirement list, budget tracking tools., and develops metrics to demonstrate performance and drive improvements of maintenance operations. Exercises discretion and independent judgment to administer schedule changes due to backlogs, design changes, and material or labor shortages. Provides strategic analysis based on evaluating possible repairs and deciding whether equipment needs to be modified or replaced. Confirms that all documentation, including all MOC's, Job Plans, Safety work plans, etc. are complete so work can proceed.

Manages inventory, inventory warehouse counts, and works to ensure obsolete equipment is remediated at a minimum on an annual basis.

Job Responsibilities

• Seasoned professional with administrative skill and advanced applied experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of maintenance and plant operations.
• Advanced knowledge in the use of Maximo, Job Planning, labor management, and job estimating. Able to navigate and use all asset and financial tools for tracking historical work records.
• Administers maintenance program with particular emphasis on establishing job plans to effect operation/maintenance performance and efficiencies.
• Manages outage readiness check lists for required planning periods.
• Serves as a SME and conducts inspection work.
• Makes decisions concerning complex issues regarding project components and tasks./ Ability to create job and Safe Work Plans
• Leads, researches, prepares, plans and schedules exercising discretion in formulating solutions using independent decision-making.
• Collaborates with operations on hazard isolation and critical component requirements. Is a strong resource and works to ensure safety.
• Makes decisions requiring exercise of discretion and independent judgment regarding matters of significance ranging from moderate to complex maintenance and operations planning issues.
• Directs senior professional in selection of methods, techniques, and analytical approaches.
• Develops and maintains planning for long and short-term business objectives, develops maintenance reports, standards, metrics and policies. Manages equipment lead times.
• Able to administer maintenance planning based on general plant and operations policies with little or no day-to-day direction.
• Administers work of professionals, technicians, and others both inside and outside of own department.
• Work is primarily office or non-manual work related to the plant maintenance operations.
• Must compare and evaluate possible courses of action and make a decision after various possibilities have been considered
• Has authority to wave or deviate from established policies and procedures in exceptional circumstances.
• Advises management on best policies and practices for coordinating resources to achieve maintenance goal and regularly keeps management abreast on actionable solutions to planning issues.
• Collaborate and solve problems - works with others to resolve significant issues in the plant, clarifies or interprets complex information, provide initial screening/remediation.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and vocational/technical experience and education in maintenance, engineering-related field, or equivalent.
• Expert in department-specific software, databases, and spreadsheets; strong understanding of power maintenance/plant operations functions, administrative controls, or related.
• Generally requires 4-7 years' of relevant experience.
• Ability to work independently and exercise good judgment as well as mastery of maintenance and control operations functions necessary to administer maintenance.

Salary Information

• Range - $98,017.15 to $124,971.87 / year

Additional Calpine Information

• Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.
• Calpine is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are made on case-by-case basis.
• Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here.

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