Manager, Generation Engineering

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Manages a team of engineers, technical leads, administrators, and support personnel with a primary focus on PNM owned generation including San Juan Generating Station, Afton, Lordsburg, Luna, and Reeves generating stations. Ensures high value, economical projects are evaluated, designed, and constructed for PNM power generation facilities. Plans, organizes, leads, and controls the stations engineering, asset management programs, document control services, capital project management, and capital vendor alliance services and activities.

• Supplies the materials, tools, capital, and other resources necessary to accomplish the department's goals, objectives, and improvement initiatives.
• Determines, develops, and maintains work relationships among the station's various departments, disciplines, and work-groups.
• Generates forecasts, environmental, and auxiliary equipment performance curves, upgrade economics, and capital replacement requirements and capabilities.
• Establishes one-year and five-year equipment capital improvement, outage project, and engineering project targets.
• Sets department goals and objectives that achieve the department's capital improvement, outage, and engineering project targets.
• Develops, applies, and meets budgets that support the department's goals and objectives.
• Establishes, executes, and achieves work sequences, schedules, milestones, and deadlines.
• Develops, enacts, and enforces policies, procedures, programs, and guidelines.
• Assesses, adjusts, and controls the work of the department to accomplish the department's goals and objectives.
• Determines department availability, reliability, and productivity performance standards.
• Establishes methods of measuring, monitoring, and reporting work in progress and completed tasks.
• Evaluates work in progress and results achieved against the standards.
• Corrects deficient performance, improving methods and results.

• Broad knowledge of the design, maintenance, and operation of all power generation technologies, including fossil‑fired power plants and associated environmental systems.
• Understanding of and ability to utilize project management tools and techniques to plan, schedule, execute, and document outage projects and engineering projects in an effective, efficient, and safe manner.
• Ability to exercise considerable technical judgment and influence in the analysis of engineering problems and solutions and in the implementation of those solutions while maintaining plant operating equipment availability, reliability, and productivity targets.
• Understanding of and ability to utilize sound management techniques and leadership principles.
• Ability to make sound judgments and crucial decisions in short amounts of time.
• Ability to maintain positive and productive working relationships with various individuals and groups.

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four‑year college or university in engineering with seven to nine years related experience, including two years of management experience, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to the discipline.
• Master's degree is preferred.

• Hires, trains, evaluates, rewards, and terminates employees. Designs, organizes, prioritizes, schedules, and leads work assignments. Fosters good working relationships with various groups.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, and…