Outage Planning Specialist – Electric & Turbine Ops

Los Alamos National Laboratory; Los Alamos (NM); On-site; USD 80,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, is seeking an Operations Specialist to join the UI-EST group, coordinating electric, steam, and turbine operations with disciplined safety and reliability. The role requires strong planning, readiness reviews, and cross-functional collaboration with maintenance, engineering, and customers.

Two levels are available: OPS 2 and OPS 3, with level determined by experience.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of utility, power-generation, industrial plant, or similar high-hazard operations.
• Experience coordinating work across operations, maintenance, engineering, projects, work control, and customers.
• Ability to manage concurrent priorities, maintain status information, and support planning through execution.
• Ability to interpret procedures, drawings, and diagrams like one-line diagrams and P&IDs.
• Understanding of hazardous energy control and safety practices.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate planning, scheduling, communication, and status tracking of utilities operations and maintenance.
• Maintain integrated view of outages, constraints, and priorities; escalate conflicts.
• Facilitate outage planning meetings, readiness reviews, and post-work reviews with stakeholders.
• Support development of work packages, outage plans, and operating procedures.
• Track commitments, corrective actions, and performance measures through to closure.
• Support field readiness checks and incident response during abnormal events and outages.

Skills

Utility operations knowledge

Coordination & planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Operational problem-solving

Education

Associate's degree

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, is seeking an Operations Specialist to join the UI-EST group, coordinating electric, steam, and turbine operations with disciplined safety and reliability. The role requires strong planning, readiness reviews, and cross-functional collaboration with maintenance, engineering, and customers.

Two levels are available: OPS 2 and OPS 3, with level determined by experience.