Power Plant Maintenance Planner

Oglethorpe Power Corp.; Georgia; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Oglethorpe Power Corp. seeks an experienced Maintenance Coordinator to support the Chattahoochee Energy Facility, a two-combustion turbine, two HRSGs, one steam turbine plant in Franklin, Georgia.

You will plan and coordinate maintenance, translating needs into actionable plans and aligning resources to maintain safe, reliable operation. The role requires coordinating with operations and maintenance leadership, preparing work plans, and managing Maximo work orders.

Qualifications

• Eight years of outage maintenance and management experience in an operating commercial electric power-generating plant is preferred.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system; Maximo experience is strongly preferred.
• A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, engineering technology, or a related technical field is preferred.
• Equivalent experience considered: two-year technical degree plus ten years of directly related maintenance and management experience in an electric power plant; or twelve years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan preventive, predictive, corrective, and special-project maintenance activities.
• Conduct field walkdowns to understand work scope, clarify needs with requestors, and identify safety hazards or potential execution issues.
• Developing work plans, including labor estimates, craft requirements, materials, tools, rental equipment, contractor support, and expected duration.
• Maintaining maintenance backlogs and developing weekly and four-week projected schedules that align work with available plant resources.
• Ensuring labor, materials, tools, equipment, and contractor resources are ready before work is scheduled.
• Coordinating closely with Plant Operations and Maintenance leadership, craft personnel, outage coordinators, contractors, and other support teams to resolve planning and scheduling needs.
• Supporting outage planning, including outage personnel schedules and schedule-change tracking.
• Managing work orders through completion in Maximo and ensuring repair history, downtime, labor, materials, costs, and other required details are accurately documented.
• Reviewing maintenance KPIs and performance data to identify ways to improve planning, scheduling, work execution, and plant performance.
• Administering the facility's Conduct of Maintenance Program, facilitating post-work critiques, and turning lessons learned into better future maintenance practices.
• Supporting budget and scope control, self-assessments, risk assessments, action-item tracking, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Helping ensure compliance with OPC safety policies and procedures, mandatory electric reliability standards, and applicable FERC, EPA, EPD, OSHA, DOT, and other regulatory requirements.

Skills

Outage maintenance management

Maximo experience

Bachelor's degree in mechanical/electR

Education

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

Two-year technical degree plus ten years of directly related maintenance and management experience in an electric power plant environment

Twelve years of directly related maintenance and management experience in an electric power plant environment

Tools

Maximo CMMS

Job description

Oglethorpe Power Corp. seeks an experienced Maintenance Coordinator to support the Chattahoochee Energy Facility, a two-combustion turbine, two HRSGs, one steam turbine plant in Franklin, Georgia.

You will plan and coordinate maintenance, translating needs into actionable plans and aligning resources to maintain safe, reliable operation. The role requires coordinating with operations and maintenance leadership, preparing work plans, and managing Maximo work orders.