Maintenance Team Supervisor - Falls

About this position:

This position plans, details, coordinates, and oversees maintenance and special project activities for North Western Energy's Hydro Generation facilities in coordination with plant supervision and under the guidance of the Superintendent Power Generation
- Hydro Maintenance and Reliability. This position supervises the daily activities of maintenance craft employees to ensure the quality completion of all necessary maintenance activities and large special project scopes primarily in the Great Falls area. The successful candidate will oversee that work is being carried out in a safe and efficient manner, abides by the collective bargaining agreement, follows area direction, and work standards.

The position is accountable for advanced planning, scheduling, quality oversight, monitoring, forecasting, and estimating of projects and maintenance activities. This position will direct maintenance work tasks, oversee job and employee performance and overall project work execution by work crews. Receives direction and oversight from the Superintendent Power Generation
- Hydro Maintenance and Reliability.

North Western Energy is a fully regulated electric and natural gas utility serving Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. We employ over 1,600 amazing people and serve over 800,000 customers who are our neighbors in our communities. We are a top employer and offer competitive benefits, including:

• 401K with company match up to 4% and non-elective contribution up to 7%
• Healthcare and wellbeing programs, including dental and vision for you, your spouse and dependents, Health Savings Account (HSA), healthcare and dependent care flexible spending account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Programs (Offering up to six free counseling sessions, per person, per issue, per year for employees, spouses and dependents to include financial heath)
• Life Insurance (Company pays basic employee policy; spouse, dependent insurance also available)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Competitive pay (Scheduled performance-based wage increases and annual incentive opportunities.)
• Paid company endorsed volunteer opportunities
• Paid parental leave
• Paid bereavement leave
• Paid training opportunities
• Paid time off starting on your first day, plus 11 paid holidays

Benefits may vary by position or as negotiated as part of a collective bargaining agreement.

• Demonstrates leadership consistent with North Western Energy’s code, values, policies, processes and controls
• Utilizes effective management practices to maintain employee engagement and productivity
• Effectively manages budget, ensuring proper cost controls
• Lead, direct and/or assist with the management of the maintenance crews, ensures and promotes a safety conscience work environment, manage and abide by the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, communicate and support the technical and business directions of the organization including Business Plans, equipment strategies and business rules.
• Evaluates the future maintenance schedules, planned outage list, strategic maintenance backlogs and equipment history for the purpose of scheduling future work. Trends crew performance and job performance improvements. Evaluates human error events and safety incident root causes to better understand and prevent future events.
• Work with plant foreman, Maintenance and Reliability Department, and supervisor to develop an achievable, workable schedule, communicate when a job requires further job planning and update progress as required, and support documentation for job completion.
• Break down and schedule large maintenance and special project scopes including milestones, costs, target dates and materials. Work closely with Maintenance and Reliability and Hydro…