Work Week Manager

Talen Energy; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Talen Energy is seeking a Work Week Manager to coordinate the weekly schedule at the Susquehanna Station near Berwick, PA. On-site role requiring safe, effective planning of surveillance, preventive and corrective maintenance, and related activities six weeks prior to implementation.

The role emphasizes risk management, coordination among station and corporate groups, and accountability for the week’s scope, safety, and performance targets.

Qualifications

• BS/BE or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years commercial nuclear experience.
• Valid Pennsylvania driver’s license and unescorted access to SSES.
• Basic knowledge of nuclear plant operations and related processes.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and schedules.
• Experience with work management and risk assessment processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, release, and orchestrate the weekly work schedule.
• Identify and assess clearance requirements and post-maintenance testing.
• Provide daily leadership among multiple station and corporate groups.
• Balance risk, plant availability, and radiation exposure in scheduling.
• Lead and communicate with operations, maintenance, engineering, and other teams.
• Manage System Outage Windows (SOWs) and VLCOs as assigned.
• Perform on-line risk assessments and update weekly schedules.
• Act as Evolution Coordinator and ensure safety and compliance.

Skills

Nuclear operations knowledge

On-site work readiness

Leadership and coordination

Education

BS/BE or equivalent experience

Tools

NIMS

Primavera P6

Syntempo

Job description

Talen Energy is soliciting candidates interested in filling the position of Work Week Manager on-site at our Susquehanna Steam Electric Station located near Berwick, Pennsylvania.

Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, one of the largest dual-unit, Boiling Water Reactor sites in the U.S., delivers approximately 2700 MW of electricity to the grid in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Job Summary

The Work Week Manager is responsible for safe and effective preparation and execution of the weekly integrated Station Schedule during all modes of operation. Responsible for effective coordination of all work activities necessary to execute a work week including Surveillances, Preventive, Repetitive, Corrective, Elective and Modification and Predictive maintenance activities, as well as clearance activities necessary to ensure safe and efficient accomplishment of work from six weeks prior to implementation through execution and assessment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Aligned by week, each Work Week Manager is responsible for coordination, release, and orchestration of that week's work including prioritization and incorporation of emergent work, assessment of implementation, risk assessment and risk management.
• Ensures that clearance requirements, impacts and effects of work, impacted technical specifications, and required post maintenance and surveillance testing are identified.
• Performs a post work week assessment of the implementation.
• These activities require daily interface and leadership among multiple station and corporate work groups to finalize scope of work to be successfully accomplished.
• Performs duties in a manner that balances and optimizes the key considerations of risk management, plant availability, equipment reliability, radiation exposure, equipment out‑of‑service time, error prevention techniques, training and qualifications as well as resource utilization.
• Provides overall management, direction, coordination and communication of all work week activities.
• Is the single point of contact 24/7 for the assigned work week and provides leadership for the target week process.
• Coordinates work activities between various work groups to minimize equipment out of service time, maintain safety system availability and improve productivity.
• Communicates to station management concerns with work activities to ensure prompt attention.
• Develops and implements System Outage Windows (SOWs) as assigned and provides overall management of SOWs and Voluntary Limiting Condition Operations (VLCOs).
• Performs on‑line risk assessments and identifies risk management activities including nuclear safety (Core Damage Frequency‑CDF/Large Early Release Frequency‑LERF) risk, generation risk, reactivity risk and radiological risk.
• Coordinates Forced Outage Review Team (FORT) callout and work group callouts.
• Evaluates emergent work activities, adjusts priorities and risk assessments as required and integrates emergent work into the overall schedule.
• Reviews work documents for personnel safety (blocking), impacts and effects to the plant, technical specification applicability, post maintenance testing and operability testing.
• Understands and reviews work documents associated with fire protection, Negative Leak Rate Testing/Positive Leak Rate Testing (NLRT/PLRT) boundary breaches, work on station doors, etc.
• Performs updates and publishes the work week schedule daily; performs critical assessment of work week implementation.
• Performs duties and responsibilities of an Evolution Coordinator as assigned.
• Ensures a constructive and healthy relationship with customers such as operations, maintenance production, engineering, marketing and other affected work groups.
• Performs Outage and Nuclear Emergency Response Organization (NERO) duties as qualified and assigned.
• Maintains and improves qualifications and proficiency for the duties and responsibilities associated with the requirements of Discipline Scheduler.
• Actively uses the Corrective Action and Self‑Assessment processes including quality resolution of assigned action items, support of RCA teams and Self Assessments such as After‑Action Reviews (AAR) (Work Week Report Card Guideline; Quarterly Work Week Assessment Guideline).
• Is a leader/active participant/member of the following station committees/meetings: Daily Station Status Meeting; Daily Work Classification and Screening Meeting; Schedule Update/Work Reconciliation Meeting when required; AR/CR Screening Team; T+1 Work Week Evaluation Meeting (Report Card Meeting); FORT Team and other committees as assigned.

Junior Work Week Manager – Basic Qualifications

• BS/BE (or Equivalent Experience) or a minimum of 3 years commercial nuclear experience.
• Valid Pennsylvania driver's license required and ability to physically respond and have unescorted access to SSES.
• Basic knowledge of nuclear plant operations in the form of plant specific certification, projects, maintenance, engineering, or equivalent plant or process experience.

Junior Work Week Manager – Preferred Qualifications

• Internal Hire: 5 years on site with knowledge of Susquehanna processes; ability to navigate through NIMS, Primavera (P6) or Syntempo; fundamental understanding of work management process; familiarity with roles of operations, maintenance, engineering, procurement, radiation protection; established communication and leadership skills.
• External Hire: 5 years experience at another nuclear facility with operations, maintenance, engineering, or work management experience; established communication and leadership skills.

Senior Work Week Manager – Basic Qualifications

• BS/BE (or Equivalent Experience).
• Valid Pennsylvania driver's license required and ability to physically respond and have unescorted access to SSES.
• Extensive knowledge of nuclear plant operations in the form of Senior Reactor Operator license, Shift Technical Advisor, plant specific certification, maintenance, engineering, or equivalent plant or process experience.

Senior Work Week Manager – Preferred Qualifications

• Previous or current Senior Reactor Operator License or Certification.
• OR +5 years non‑licensed operating experience and demonstrated leadership.
• +5 years of supervisory experience in one of the following departments: OPS, MAINT, ENG, WM, RP, CHEM, SECR or QC/QA (or equivalent). Established communication and leadership skills.
• Familiarity with work management process: NIMS – Work document review, component information and modification process; knowledge of work implementation and Work Management Process.
• P‑6 – Develop work windows, logic ties and resource manpower loading; capable of obtaining various P‑6 reports for both outage and online periods.
• PRA – Probability Risk Assessment Tool.

Talen Energy is committed to providing a safe, drug and alcohol‑free workplace. Consistent with applicable law and any collective bargaining agreements, positions may be subject to pre‑employment, random, post‑accident, and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.

Talen Energy is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity and the strength it brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, disability, perceived disability or any other protected characteristic as may be defined by applicable law.

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