Maintenance Planner I

Calpine; Middletown (CA); On-site; USD 61,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Calpine is seeking a Maintenance Planner to develop and manage long- and short-term schedules for plant maintenance and operations. You will coordinate with plant leadership to balance resources, treat backlogs, and ensure timely delivery of work orders.

The role emphasizes expertise in planning, budgeting, and collaborating with managers on maintenance strategies and safety considerations. This position typically operates in an office setting with exposure to field environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and vocational/technical experience, or equivalent work experience in maintenance/engineering.
• 2-4 years' relevant experience in maintenance/planning or related field.
• Expert in department-specific software, databases, and spreadsheets; strong understanding of power maintenance/plant operations.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule maintenance work to support plant productivity.
• Assess priority of maintenance requests and determine staffing resources.
• Develop work scopes, budgets, and material lists for maintenance projects.
• Coordinate with management to ensure backlogs are managed and repairs are aligned with operations.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Maximo

Job planning

Labor management

Budgeting

Inventory management

Education

Bachelor's degree

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 support and works with 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 supporting work schedule development. Formulates maintenance plans, provides budgetary information, material requirement list, budget tracking tools, and tracks job progress. Works with Maintenance Manager to manage backlogs and classification / designation of work orders. Provides input and actively collaborates on possible repair options including repair vs. replace scenarios. 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.
• Competent in the use of Maximo, Job Planning, labor management, and job estimating
• Administers maintenance program with particular emphasis on establishing work plan to effect operation/maintenance performance and efficiencies.
• Manages outage readiness check lists for required planning periods.
• 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.
• Makes recommendations regarding planning issues.
• Supports and works with plant leadership in the selection of methods, techniques, and analytical approaches.
• Advises management team in planning long and short-term business objectives, material delivery concerns, and labor management.
• Able to administer maintenance planning based on general plant and operations policies with engagement with the plant maintenance manager to meet planned and emergent needs.
• Prepares work scopes and serves as resource for work executed by professionals, technicians, and others both inside and outside of workforce.
• 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.
• Advise 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, or equivalent work 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 2-4 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.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with vehicle fleet management to include managing DMV records, scheduling repairs, and managing part inventory.
• Experience with California 90-day BIT inspections and Advanced Clean Fleet CARB vehicle inspections.
• Coupa, TransMan, and Maximo systems experience.

Salary Information

• Hourly Rate Range - $44.2838 to $57.5689 /hour

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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