Outage Manager

Dormont Manufacturing Co; Eddystone (Delaware County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Luminant Generation Company LLC in Pennsylvania is seeking a Regional Outage Manager to lead outage planning and execution for fossil power plants. You will coordinate plant personnel, contractors and equipment manufacturer representatives to meet cost, schedule, quality, safety, and environmental goals.

The role requires extensive travel (40–70%) and entails managing outages of 4–8 weeks, while collaborating with multiple projects to maintain reliable power delivery per the Outage Playbook.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 5 years minimum outage management experience.
• 10 years minimum in maintenance and repair of fossil power production equipment.
• Knowledge of turbine, boiler components in fossil plants.
• Experience with contract craft personnel and equipment manufacturer representatives.
• Working knowledge of safety, health, and environmental requirements in fossil plants.
• Experience with cost tracking and budgeting.
• Extensive travel and long outage durations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Outage Manager for all scheduled and forced outages at assigned plant(s).
• Provide supplementary Construction Management support for outages at other plants.
• Ensure execution meets cost, schedule, quality, safety and environmental objectives per the Outage Playbook.

Skills

Outage management

Leadership

Scheduling

Budgeting experience

Safety compliance

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Scheduling software

RCM tools

Job description

If you have what it takes to become part of the Vistra family and would like to start a promising career with a global leader, take a look at the exciting employment opportunities that are currently available and apply online.

Job Summary

Regional Outage Manager will provide outage management support for major projects and scheduled outages at each of the Power Plants. In order to meet the desired project/outage objectives for cost, schedule, quality, craft health and safety, and environmental compliance, the Regional Outage Manager will manage services provided by plant personnel, contractors and equipment manufacturer representatives, and other Luminant organizations. The Regional Outage Manager, dedicated to the yearly outage activities of each Power Plant Facility, is used to support long range project planning/estimating, to manage the numerous resources required to complete pre and post outage planning/execution, to develop/track accurate outage schedules, to manage procurement and cost tracking, and to manage execution of the outage activities in accordance with the Luminant Outage Playbook.

Position may be based at a Vistra site in the PJM, MISO, ISONY, NEISO region.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Serve as Outage Manager for all scheduled and forced outages at assigned plant(s). Planning and execution of non-scheduled outages (i.e. outages that do not appear on the yearly outage schedule) will be managed and executed by the plant Maintenance staff.
• Provide supplementary Construction Management support for outages at other plants, as available and with concurrence from management of normally assigned plant(s).
• Ensure execution of project/outage activities meet the desired objectives of cost, schedule, quality, craft health and safety, and environmental compliance in accordance with the Luminant Outage Playbook.

Education, Experience and Skill Requirements

• High school diploma/GED equivalent required
• 5 years minimum experience in the management of unit outages for maintenance and repair of fossil power production equipment,
• 10 years minimum of experience in the maintenance and repair of fossil power production equipment.
• Knowledge of fossil power plant equipment disassembly/reassembly techniques, particularly steam turbine, combustion turbine, and boiler components.
• Experience in interfacing with contract craft personnel and equipment manufacturer field representatives.
• Working knowledge of fossil power plant operations, work processes, RCM diagnostic tools/techniques, and personnel.
• Working knowledge of safety, health, and environmental requirements in fossil power plants.
• Experience with directing multiple large projects concurrently.
• Experience with critical path schedules and working knowledge of scheduling software.
• Experience with detailed cost tracking, cost projections, and budgeting.
• Experience with detailed planning, scheduling, work order development, and other work process controls.
• Extensive travel required (40 - 70%)
• Typical unit outages are 4 to 8 weeks in duration and Regional Outage Project Managers will be required to work extended hours 7 days per week in support of the outages.

Job Family

Plant Operations

Company

Luminant Generation Company LLC

Locations

Eddystone, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

It is the policy of the Company to comply with all employment laws and to afford equal employment opportunity to individuals in all aspects of employment, including in selection for job opportunities, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service, protected veteran status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local laws.

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