Skilled Trades Supervisor

Job Title

Skilled Trades Supervisor

East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Ipf Power And Water

Salary: $94,200 - $115,100 annually depending on experience. MSU Benefits - Free comprehensive health care for you and your family as well as a 10% contribution toward your retirement;
Generous sick, vacation, personal and holiday time. This position is not eligible for remote work. Regular, in-person attendance is required to meet business and customer needs.

MSU Power Plant consists of an electricity/steam co-generation (cogen), reciprocating internal combustion engine (RICE), and auxiliary (AUX) boiler facilities with a combined capability of over 120 MW and 1,000 kpph steam. The cogen facility includes 4 high pressure boilers, one combustion turbine with heat recover steam generator, and 5 steam turbines. The RICE facility consists of three 9.3 MW engines. The AUX boiler facility produces 90 psi steam directly for campus use.

All are 100% natural gas.

• 40%:
  Responsible for complete operational activities including, but not limited to: developing dispatch and operating instructions balancing the need for reliability and efficiency; monitoring the operations team for compliance with dispatch and operating instructions, operating routines, switching operations, policies and procedures; planning and conducting routine insurance and regulatory inspections and tests; monitoring equipment operating trends, taking initiative to improve reliability, availability, and efficiency and to prevent equipment trips and damage;
  
  coordinating operations activities with department supervisors, engineers, and contractors; and investigating and reporting on outage/service interruption incident root cause and recommended remedies.
• 20%:
  Perform all supervisor responsibilities for the operations staff, ensuring that they perform all of the duties necessary to safely, reliably, and efficiently operate the plant equipment, meeting dispatch, demand, reliability, and efficiency requirements. Communicate effectively to staff members addressing issues in a proactive manner.
• 10%:
  Ensure compliance with all environmental, health, and safety policies, laws, and regulations; ensure compliance with University, IPF, and Power & Water Department rules, policies, and procedures. Ensure compliance with safety policies such as, but not limited to, Lock-out Tag-out (LOTO) and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Establish and sustain a culture that promotes a safe and inclusive work environment.
• 10%:
  Improve the power plant operating, abnormal operating, and emergency response procedures and control room practices to accepted industry standards and practices.
• 10%:
  Execute and improve the operator training qualification program to ensure operation staff is trained and fully qualified to perform their duties. Incorporate leadership, soft skill, and safety training as needed.
• 10%:
  Complete all required operational and human resource/payroll/administrative documentation and reports. Coordinate operation staff recruitment to fill open or vacant positions per University and IPF policies and practices.

• Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired from specialized training such as that acquired in at least one year of college, technical, vocational, or trade school with coursework in the operation and maintenance of electrical generation, steam generation, and related balance of plant equipment in a power, steam, co-generation trade or engineering; five to eight years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in supervising in the power industry, merchant marines, military, or similar environment systems in industrial process facilities;
  
  or an equivalent combination of education and experience; possession of a valid vehicle operator's license; must meet MSU safe driving standards and drive a University vehicle to perform job duties of this classification.
• Possession of a City of Detroit 1st Class Stationary Engineer's License, a National Institute for the Uniform Licensing of Power Engineers (NIULPE) Chief Engineer License, 1st Class…