Power Plant Capital Projects & Outage Lead

CAMS - Texas; Monroe (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

CAMS is seeking a Capital Projects and Outage leader to develop and execute maintenance strategies across Georgia Peaking Facilities. You will oversee major outages, planning, and capital projects, coordinating with contractors and internal teams to ensure safety, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

The role emphasizes asset performance monitoring, budgeting, and compliance with safety and environmental standards, with opportunities to lead in outage management and long-term maintenance planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering required.
• Demonstrated communication, analytical, and detail-oriented capabilities.
• Experience with budgeting, scheduling, and contractor management.
• Familiarity with gas turbine/generator tech and plant commissioning preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement maintenance and reliability strategies for multiple simple-cycle generating facilities.
• Lead planning, budgeting, scheduling, and execution of major maintenance activities, inspections, outages, and overhauls.
• Manage capital projects from concept through commissioning and closeout.
• Develop technical scopes of work, RFPs, bid packages, and contractor evaluations.
• Negotiate and administer contractor agreements and service contracts.
• Monitor plant performance, reliability, availability, outages, starts, and maintenance costs.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective action programs.
• Develop annual maintenance and capital budgets and provide forecasting and variance reporting.
• Support NERC, environmental, safety, and compliance programs.
• Support plant corrective and preventative maintenance activities.
• Act as O&M Manager designee and Plant Manager designee as assigned.

Skills

Analytical ability

Communication skills

Detail orientation

Decision making

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering

Tools

Excel

Job description

CAMS is seeking a Capital Projects and Outage leader to develop and execute maintenance strategies across Georgia Peaking Facilities. You will oversee major outages, planning, and capital projects, coordinating with contractors and internal teams to ensure safety, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

The role emphasizes asset performance monitoring, budgeting, and compliance with safety and environmental standards, with opportunities to lead in outage management and long-term maintenance planning.