Maintenance Manager

The Fairview Energy Center is among the world's most advanced natural gas combined cycle power plants. It features GE's Frame 7HA.02 Gas Turbines in conjunction with a GE Steam Turbine. In 2020, the facility received recognition as Power Magazine's Top U.S. Facility. Situated approximately 8 miles north of Johnstown and 87 miles east of Pittsburgh, the plant is nestled in the Laurel Highlands, known for its hardwood forests, pristine trout streams, and thriving whitetail deer population.

Opportunity Summary

The Maintenance Manager at Fairview Energy Center has the opportunity to lead the maintenance organization at a world-class GE 7HA.02 combined-cycle facility recognized for high performance and operational excellence. This role is responsible for ensuring maximum reliability, availability, and efficiency of advanced gas turbine, HRSG, and steam turbine systems in a fast-paced, grid-responsive operating environment. It offers the ability to drive best-in-class maintenance strategies, strengthen a high-performing technical team, and directly influence plant performance and long-term asset value.

Your scope of responsibility as Maintenance Manager will include the following primary functions:

• Lead the plant maintenance function, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operation of combined-cycle equipment, including GE Frame 7HA.02 gas turbines, HRSGs, and steam turbines, while managing personnel, programs, projects, and compliance.
• Supervise maintenance personnel to ensure corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance activities are executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with OEM recommendations, station procedures, and the maintenance management system.
• Support workforce development through recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and training to maintain a skilled maintenance team capable of supporting advanced combined-cycle operations and high-availability dispatch requirements.
• Promote and sustain a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with plant safety programs, supporting hazard recognition initiatives, and maintaining adherence to the station Safety Manual and regulatory requirements.
• Manage preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs to maximize reliability and availability of combustion turbines, steam turbines, HRSGs, balance-of-plant systems, and auxiliary equipment.
• Analyze equipment performance, reliability data, and failure trends (including vibration, thermodynamic performance, and condition monitoring outputs) to drive corrective actions and improve reliability while reducing forced outages.
• Serve as project manager for maintenance and capital projects, coordinating schedules, resources, OEM/vendor support (including GE and specialty contractors), and technical execution to ensure safe, timely completion.
• Develop and manage contracts, scopes of work, budgets, and schedules for maintenance services, outage support, and specialty repair work, ensuring cost control and performance compliance.
• Prepare work packages, job plans, and scheduling inputs for planned outages, forced outages, and major maintenance events, including hot gas path, combustion, and HRSG inspections.
• Ensure required parts, tooling, OEM spares, and contractor services are staged and available to support outage execution and emergent maintenance work.
• Review, validate, and maintain CMMS work orders, ensuring accurate failure coding, job history, and equipment performance tracking for reliability analysis.
• Administer the Management of Change (MOC) process to ensure equipment, control system, and procedural changes are properly evaluated, documented, and implemented with engineering and operations.
• Continuously evaluate maintenance strategies, procedures, and schedules to improve plant availability, cycling performance, start reliability, and heat rate efficiency.
• Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and NERC compliance to ensure maintenance activities support grid reliability, dispatch readiness, and ISO/PJM regulatory requirements.
• Maintain maintenance documentation, vendor records, inventory systems, and warehouse readiness while supporting long-range asset planning, OEM compliance, and…