Outage Program Manager — Fossil Power Plants

Vistra Corp; Liberty (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Luminant Generation Company LLC in Pennsylvania is seeking a Regional Outage Manager to provide outage management support for major projects and scheduled outages at each power plant.

You will coordinate plant personnel, contractors and equipment representatives, develop outage schedules, manage procurement and cost tracking, and ensure safety and environmental compliance. Travel is extensive (40–70%), outages typically last 4–8 weeks, and long hours are common during peak periods.

Qualifications

• High school diploma/GED required.
• 5+ years minimum experience in the management of unit outages for fossil power production equipment.
• 10 years minimum 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 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 directing multiple large projects concurrently.
• Experience with critical path schedules and 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.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Outage Manager for all scheduled and forced outages at assigned plant(s). Planning and execution of non-scheduled outages will be managed by 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.

Job description

Luminant Generation Company LLC in Pennsylvania is seeking a Regional Outage Manager to provide outage management support for major projects and scheduled outages at each power plant.

You will coordinate plant personnel, contractors and equipment representatives, develop outage schedules, manage procurement and cost tracking, and ensure safety and environmental compliance. Travel is extensive (40–70%), outages typically last 4–8 weeks, and long hours are common during peak periods.