Senior Nuclear Maintenance Tech Support

Duke Energy; Seneca (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Duke Energy is seeking an experienced professional to serve as the Outage Sponsor and Site SME for nuclear maintenance activities. You will act as the single point of contact for supplemental outage resources, provide technical direction, and oversee budgets and scheduling for multiple work programs.

Responsibilities include coordinating field activities, reviewing procedures, and benchmarking improvements while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance within the nuclear environment.

Qualifications

• High School/GED degree AND eight (8) years related work experience (i.e. technical/Maintenance or Engineering) showing broad technical knowledge
• Minimum five (5) years of work experience in Operating Nuclear Station Environment

Responsibilities

• Single point of contact for supplemental workforce; station oversight for contingent workforce; communicate work standards and expectations; determine workforce numbers, duration, and training; coordinate overall work activities; provide field support during work activities; monitor workforce for safety, quality, productivity, and schedule adherence; define roles and responsibilities; formulate and monitor budget for workforce, materials, and equipment costs; provide outage schedule for Work Management Group; provide technical direction for area of responsibility; and conduct pre-outage communication and post-outage critique/lessons learned documentation.
• Initial contact for field problems providing overall tech support in analyzing component data/issues for safe, timely resolutions; work order reviews; engineering support for problem identification/resolution/assessments/equipment availability; review/purchase parts inventory; develop specialty tooling; act as complex activity manager for complex work activities; benchmark utilities for improvements.
• Prepare yearly budget for job task area; ensure long-range plans are updated; meet with budget contact; prepare and present annual peer budget reviews; monitor cost reports; project quarterly/year-end projections.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Teamwork

Communication

Education

High School/GED + 8 years experience

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Work Management System

Job description

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Position Summary

This position functions primarily as an online and outage job sponsor for supplemental workforce, technical support, and work activity manager. This position serves as subject matter expert and the initial contact for field problems in the respective maintenance area and is responsible for analyzing data and issues and working with other groups to bring safe, timely resolution to the problems. The work focus is within the protected nuclear area and involves maintenance support of plant equipment. These positions are also online/outage job sponsors which involve serving as the single point of contact for the supplemental outage workforce for their specialty area. This work includes determining workforce numbers, formulating the budget, determining materials and equipment cost, providing technical direction and critique. Act as activity manager for SSU windows Prepare annual budget for job task area, performing assessments, root cause analysis, and preparing vendor proposals Monitor programmatic oversight for the respective area performance. Creates strategies for improvement including development of assessments to identify strengths and weaknesses of the program. Will be performed internal and external to site Serve as the Site SME for all code and technical evaluations relating to discipline activities at the site Serves as the point of contact between engineering, NOS, and external regulators such as the NRC, INPO, and EPRI Serve as lead/member for assessment and benchmarking activities internal and external to the site Serve as lead/member of the respective working team(s) as required. Provide technical and work direction support Perform trouble shooting for difficult and complex evolutions Manage multiple projects/programs within Maintenance Develop process to implement and execute first time evolutions Conduct oversight and observation of field work activities Conduct Out of Test (OOT) reviews on Measuring and Test Equipment Reinforce accountabilities for station and supplemental resources. Provide oversight of all personnel (station and supplemental), especially during critical work activities, in area of responsibility. Initiate requisitions for Supplemental Workers.

Responsibilities

OUTAGE JOB SPONSOR Single point of contact for supplemental workforce; station oversight for contingent workforce; communicate work standards and expectations; determine workforce numbers, duration, and training; coordinate overall work activities; provide field support during work activities; monitor workforce for safety, quality, productivity, and schedule adherence; define roles and responsibilities; formulate and monitor budget for workforce, materials, and equipment costs; provide outage schedule for Work Management Group; provide technical direction for area of responsibility; and conduct pre-outage communication and post-outage critique/lessons learned documentation.

Technical Support

Initial contact for field problems providing overall tech support for the analyzing of component data / issues for safe, timely, efficient resolutions; work order reviews; provide engineering support in areas of responsibility for problem identification / resolution / assessments / equipment availability, reliability; initiate / review procedure changes including “Qualified Reviewer” role as applicable; review / purchase parts inventory, maintain / purchase / develop specialty tooling; serve as “complex activity manager” for complex work activities as applicable; benchmark other utilities for work improvements / technologies; provide administrative oversight in absence of supervisor / manager as requested; periodic review for tech spec / manual / database for accuracy / relevancy etc.

Work Activity Manager

Prepare yearly budget for job task area (including O&M, capital, labor, tooling, materials, training etc); ensure “long range plans” (5-yr look a-heads) are updated and adequately address future needs; meet periodically w/ budget contact for updating / statusing assigned budgets; prepare and present annual peer budget reviews; review cost reports and submit corrections; monthly monitoring of budget areas for management awareness of issues; provide quarterly / year-end projections.

Miscellaneous

Pursue technical / professional development striving to continually develop job related skills / knowledge; perform assessments, apparent / root cause analysis as requested by management including studies, technical reports / correspondences (NRC, INPO etc), Duke / vendor proposals, NCR program (problem evaluations, corrective actions, resolutions.)

Required/Basic Qualifications

• High School/GED degree AND eight (8) years related work experience (i.e. technical/Maintenance or Engineering), demonstrating broad technical knowledge in related areas of expertise
• Minimum five (5) years of work experience in Operating Nuclear Station Environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Should possess a high degree of manual dexterity of ability
• Should be capable of learning and applying basic skills
• Previous experience providing technical direction for (Specified area of expertise)
• Ability to deliver superior results within allocated time through effective prioritization, scheduling, planning and execution of assigned work
• Previous project management experience
• Leadership abilities to effectively provide work direction to others
• Motivated self-starter, requires minimal supervision and monitoring of work, and takes personal responsibility for assigned accountabilities
• Ability to interact effectively with technicians, various craft personnel, peers, engineers, vendors, and management or as a team member
• Experience with using plant drawings
• Ability to effectively utilize computer technology as the job demands, i.e. Work Management System, CAP (Corrective Action Program), Excel, Word, and PowerPoint etc.
• Demonstrated effective analytical, problem solving, and decision‑making skills
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team, be a self-starter, exercise flexibility, and take personal responsibility for assigned accountabilities
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing processes, regulations, responsibilities, and work environments

Working Conditions

Onsite Mobility Classification – Work will be performed at a company facility. On‑site employees are also required to live within a reasonable daily commute to their assigned work location, not greater than 50 miles one way The individual typically works in an office environment, with prolonged sitting in front of a computer Regular online schedule is 4-10’s (but response outside of business hours, including weekends, evenings or shift staffing for emergent issues maybe required) and outage schedule is 6-12’s Plant visits are required and may constitute 50% of the time during outages Individual may be subject to temperature extremes, noise and radiation exposure Individual may be expected to climb and/or crawl during observations and be subject to extreme heights

Travel Requirements

5-15%

Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)

No Represented/Union Position No Visa Sponsored Position No. This is not a Visa Sponsored Position. This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.

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