Power Plant Maintenance Planner

Oglethorpe Power Corp.; Forsyth (GA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matching up to 6%

Company contributes 11% of eligible "

Annual bonus 20%

Job summary

Oglethorpe Power Corp. seeks a Maintenance Coordinator to support the Smarr Combined Cycle facility.

This role focuses on planning, scheduling, and coordinating preventive, predictive, and outage maintenance, helping establish processes for a new 1,425 MW plant alongside the Smarr Peaking Plant. The position emphasizes safety, reliability, and collaboration with Operations, maintenance teams, and contractors to ensure efficient work execution in a 24/7 generating operation, with approximately

Qualifications

• Requires high school diploma; bachelor's degree preferred.
• Eight years of maintenance and outage-management experience in a power-generation plant preferred.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system; Maximo experience strongly preferred.
• Two-year technical degree with 10 years experience or 12 years directly related experience may be considered.
• Strong knowledge of power-plant equipment and systems.
• Ability to read technical manuals, drawings, blueprints, diagrams, and process documentation.
• Strong planning, organization, analytical, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple crafts, contractors, and internal partners while managing priorities.
• Valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare, schedule, and coordinate maintenance work, including preventive, predictive, corrective, and special-project activities.
• Build weekly and four-week maintenance schedules, balancing labor, backlog, materials, contractors, tools, and equipment.
• Develop work scopes, estimate craft labor needs and durations, coordinate resources, and ensure work packages are ready before scheduling.
• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, outage coordination, contractors, and leadership to resolve planning and scheduling issues.
• Track work orders through completion in Maximo, capturing labor, materials, costs, downtime, and data.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs and performance indicators to identify improvement opportunities.
• Support outage planning, including personnel scheduling, milestone tracking, scope and budget coordination.
• Help maintain equipment records, drawings, spare-parts information, manuals, and PM/CM data.
• Coordinate and direct plant maintenance personnel and contractors during maintenance, troubleshooting, and rehabilitation work.
• Promote safe work practices and compliance with policies, reliability standards, and safety regulations.

Skills

Planning and scheduling

Maintenance coordination

Communication

Project coordination

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Safety awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, engineering technology, or related field

Two-year technical degree with 10 years of power-plant maintenance/management experience or 12 years

Tools

Maximo

Job description

Oglethorpe Power Corp. seeks a Maintenance Coordinator to support the Smarr Combined Cycle facility.

This role focuses on planning, scheduling, and coordinating preventive, predictive, and outage maintenance, helping establish processes for a new 1,425 MW plant alongside the Smarr Peaking Plant. The position emphasizes safety, reliability, and collaboration with Operations, maintenance teams, and contractors to ensure efficient work execution in a 24/7 generating operation, with approximately