Turbine and Generator Program Manager

Overview

JOB TITLE:

Turbine and Generator Program Manager; REQUISITION: FOS
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; DEPARTMENT:
Generation Engineering Services - Kansas City Headquarters or Topeka General Office;

LOCATION:

Kansas City, MO;
Topeka, KS; PAY RANGE:
Staff Level: $93,400 - $116,800 - $140,200;
Senior Level: $94,600 - $126,100 - $157,600;
Lead Level: $111,400 - $148,500 - $185,600;
Principal Level: $116,200 - $154,900 - $193,600

Scheduled Work Hours: Monday - Friday 7:00 a.m.

- 4:00 p.m. However, hours can be irregular. Nights, weekends, and extra hours will be required as plant conditions dictate. Travel will be required in support of the Energy Centers. Additional overnight travel may be required.

The candidate will serve as a strategic technical leader, driving safe, reliable operations and maintenance of steam and combustion turbines and generators across the Evergy Generation Fleet.

• Maintain organized, fleetwide databases of OEM Technical Information Letters, Service Bulletins, and other technical documents to strengthen maintenance and reliability programs.
• Develop and update standardized overhaul scopes for turbines, generators, and exciters, incorporating technical requirements, inspection insights, and best practices.
• Analyze historical overhaul and inspection reports, carry forward outstanding findings, and support site engineers in finalizing outage scopes.
• Troubleshoot turbine and generator operational issues, delivering clear technical recommendations, corrective actions, and guidance to engineering, operations, and maintenance teams.
• Periodically manage turbine overhaul projects, including scope development, planning, contractor coordination, schedule integration, and post outage followup.
• Establish and manage contractor alliance agreements to ensure outage budgets, resource needs, and schedule objectives are consistently met.
• Lead Evergy's Turbine & Generator Health Management Program, overseeing condition monitoring, risk prioritization, and longrange reliability strategy development.
• Contribute to annual and longrange capital budgeting by providing technical justification based on equipment condition, reliability risk, and lifecycle planning.

This role requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering, mechanical engineering preferred, with hands-on experience in the design, operation, or maintenance of steam and combustion gas turbines, generators, and exciters. At least 4 years of experience in the design, operation and/or maintenance of steam and combustion gas turbines including generators and exciters is preferred. Familiarity with GE, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, and Siemens (Westinghouse) turbine and generator technologies is highly valued, along with strong troubleshooting capabilities.

OEM certifications are preferred. The ideal candidate demonstrates high initiative, strong interpersonal skills, and solid proficiency with computer-based tools.
Candidates without a bachelor's degree in engineering may be considered if they have at least 10 years experience in OEM field service for the Program Manager role.

• Strong technical expertise in steam and combustion turbine and generator design, operation, and maintenance practices.
• Knowledgeable in alignment practices, bearing vibration, electrohydraulic controls, and rotor stress analysis.
• Skilled at interpreting control logics and trending historical data to identify issues and drive reliability improvements.
• Proficient in developing, maintaining, and applying standard overhaul specifications, OEM technical bulletins, and Technical Information Letters (TILs).
• Experienced in planning and managing turbine overhaul projects, including scope definition, contractor coordination, schedule control, and execution oversight.
• Capable of leading fleetwide turbine and generator health management programs, including condition assessment and lifecycle strategy development.
• Strong analytical abilities to support capital budgeting, technical justification, and longrange reliability forecasting.
• Adept at building and managing technical documentation systems and engineering databases.
• Effective communication and leadership skills to guide project teams, collaborate with plants and OEMs, and influence technical decisions across the organization.
• Expected to model Evergy's Talent Framework Behaviors, the foundation for HOW we do our jobs  a minimum, incumbents should be able to demonstrate their ability to progressively develop and exhibit these skills at a proficient level:
• o Evergy's People First Values:
  Safety, Integrity, Ownership, Adaptability
• o Operational Excellence/Execution:
  Exerts personal effort and enables the team to achieve performance goals and exhibits a continuous improvement mindset
• o Decision Making:
  Makes informed, objective, timely and ethical decisions
• o Talent Management:
  Takes initiate to develop self and team, acts with a mindset of diversity, equity and…