Outage Project Manager

Job Category:
Project Management, Technical

Requisition Number: OUTAG
008062

• Posted :
  September 24, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

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• Pay or shift range: $176,900 USD to $206,200 USD The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

The Linden Cogeneration Plant is a 980 MW natural gas combined‑cycle cogeneration facility located within a major refinery in Linden, NJ. In addition to generating electricity, the plant supplies process steam to the refinery. The facility features five GE 7EA gas turbine generators and one GE 7FA gas turbine generator, each exhausting into an HRSG. The HRSGs feed a common steam header supplying three steam turbines and the adjacent refinery.

The Outage Project Manager leads major maintenance outages at the Linden Cogeneration Plant, ensuring safe, reliable, and cost‑effective outage execution while minimizing downtime and maintaining compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

Working closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, OEMs, contractors, and vendors, this position is responsible for outage planning, scheduling, execution, contractor management, budgeting, reliability improvements, and capital project support.

Your scope of responsibility as Outage Project Manager includes the following primary functions:

• Lead and manage planned and forced outages for combined‑cycle and cogeneration plant systems, ensuring safe, reliable, and cost‑effective execution.
• Develop outage schedules, manpower plans, resource strategies, and critical path activities to optimize execution and minimize plant downtime.
• Coordinate outage activities among Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, contractors, vendors, and OEM representatives to maintain alignment throughout planning and execution.
• Manage outage budgets, cost forecasting, performance metrics, and schedule adherence while identifying opportunities to improve reliability and reduce maintenance costs.
• Lead outage planning meetings, coordination sessions, and risk assessments to resolve technical issues, communicate priorities, and maintain project milestones.
• Oversee contractor and vendor performance, ensuring compliance with plant safety procedures, technical specifications, and contractual requirements.
• Coordinate outage logistics, including procurement, tooling, material staging, contractor access, scaffold management, and field support activities.
• Ensure outage activities comply with OSHA, NERC, ASME, environmental regulations, and all applicable plant safety and operational standards.
• Support root cause analysis investigations and integrate inspection findings, predictive maintenance recommendations, corrective actions, and reliability improvements into future outage planning.
• Oversee the Management of Change (MOC) process and maintain outage documentation, including work packages, turnover packages, technical reports, lessons learned, and final outage closeout records.
• Provide leadership, technical guidance, and effective communication throughout outage execution while supporting timely decision‑making, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Plant Manager in support of safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations.

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