Principal Engineer - Oak Grove Plant

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Franklin, Texastime type:
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** Job Summary
** This position works with occasional supervision or direction to perform assigned tasks and coordinate assigned initiatives through completion. The position will maintain effective working relationships with others.
** Job Description
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* Key Accountabilities:

*** Performs assigned task with minimum guidance from supervision
* Organize and analyze issue specific information and make appropriate recommendations
* Coordinates assigned projects, studies and initiatives through completion
* Comply with safety policy and procedures to ensure a safe working environment
* Prepare and present routine reports
* Participate in special project and committee assignments as requested
* Lead routine problem - solving efforts
** Education, Experience, and Skill Requirements:
*** Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Chemical, Industrial, Nuclear) from an accredited program. Electrical Engineer degree preferred.
* Minimum 4 yrs. relevant job experience in heavy industrial or related industry.  LEVEL OF POSITION WILL BE DETERMINED BY APPLICABLE SKILLS AND/OR EXPERIENCE.
** Key Metrics:
*** Teamwork and collaboration skills across organizational boundaries.
* Able to communicate routine issues effectively through written and verbal communication.
* Maintain effective working relationships across organizational boundaries
* Understanding of power generation equipment and system interrelationships.
* Understanding of economic drivers to the business.
* Able to apply problem solving processes to address routine issues.
** Position Specific

Job Duties and Skill Requirements
** Plant Engineering Support
* Provide engineering support as assigned to support day to day plant operational and maintenance needs (including forced and planned outages)
* Provide engineering support and analysis as needed to identify and implement solutions to address plant operational and maintenance issues and improvement opportunities
* Serve as plant interface with outside engineering resources:
Generation Services engineering, 3rd party engineering firms
* Provide design and specification review as assigned
* Provide engineering input to maintenance and operational procedures as assigned
* Collect and analyze plant operational and cost data to identify gaps in performance, develop potential solutions and gain consensus on path forward

Capital and O&M Special Projects Budget Support
* Support identification and evaluation of capital and O&M special projects needed to support the site’s safety, environmental, operational and budget objectives
* Collect and analyze plant operational and cost data to identify gaps in performance, develop potential solutions and gain consensus on path forward
* Input and maintain project data and information for assigned capital and O&M special projects in project database
* Develop stage 1 package documents for assigned projects
* Run project database reports and provide analysis to support management of the site’s capital and O&M special projects budgets

Project Implementation and Execution
* Serve as Project Manager for assigned projects
* Serve as Implementation Manager for assigned projects
* Provide engineering support for projects as assigned
* Participate in and provide input to project brown paper exercises, scope meetings, kickoff meetings and design review meetings as assigned

Assignments may require:
* Work on weekends and holidays
* Work in both an office and field environment
* Potentially inclement weather conditions

Work Environment
* Occasional long, irregular hours including work in excess of 12-hour days for extended periods
* Occasional travel between company facilities, and occasional overnight travel
** Job Family
** Engineering Services
** Company
* * Oak Grove Management Co LLC
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