Fleet Outage Manager - Shawville Generating

Fleet Outage Manager - Shawville Generating

The Heritage Project includes 16 power generation facilities across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio. These sites feature a diverse fleet of combined-cycle units, dual-fuel turbines, and subcritical boilers supporting natural gas, oil, and gas-fired generation, delivering safe, reliable, and efficient power throughout the region.

Based at the Shawville Generating Station, the Fleet Outage Manager plans, coordinates, and executes major maintenance outages for assigned Heritage Project generating facilities. This position oversees the complete outage lifecycle, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, contractor management, execution, documentation, and continuous improvement to maximize equipment reliability and plant availability while supporting safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations.

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

• Lead the planning and execution of planned and forced outages for combined-cycle units, dual-fuel turbines, subcritical boilers, and associated balance-of-plant systems, ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-effective completion.
• Develop integrated outage schedules, work packages, manpower plans, resource strategies, and critical path activities that support multiple facilities while minimizing generation impacts and outage duration.
• Coordinate outage activities among Plant Managers, Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, contractors, vendors, OEM representatives, and project stakeholders throughout planning, execution, and closeout.
• Manage outage budgets, labor forecasts, contractor costs, procurement activities, and schedule performance while identifying opportunities to improve outage efficiency and reduce maintenance costs.
• Coordinate procurement of materials, specialty tooling, rental equipment, scaffolding, cranes, and contractor services while ensuring required resources are available before outage execution.
• Lead outage planning meetings, readiness reviews, daily coordination meetings, and project update sessions while resolving issues, maintaining project schedules, and coordinating priorities across multiple generating facilities.
• Oversee contractor and vendor performance, ensuring compliance with project safety procedures, technical specifications, quality standards, and contractual requirements.
• Ensure outage activities comply with OSHA, applicable environmental regulations, project procedures, and all applicable safety and operational standards.
• Support Management of Change (MOC), equipment inspections, predictive maintenance recommendations, root cause analyses, corrective actions, and reliability initiatives that improve future outage performance across the Heritage Project.
• Monitor outage performance through safety metrics, schedule adherence, equipment reliability, work quality, and cost performance while providing regular status updates to project and plant leadership.
• Maintain accurate outage documentation, including work packages, schedules, technical reports, turnover packages, lessons learned, and final outage closeout records.
• Provide leadership, technical guidance, and effective communication throughout the outage lifecycle while promoting continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of safe, reliable, and efficient project operations.

Safety is a core value at NAES, and as a condition of employment, all employees are expected to remain mentally alert and work safely at all times. All NAES managers and supervisors have a direct and important role in ensuring that all work is performed in a healthy and safe manner. Effectiveness in carrying out this responsibility is part of the evaluation of each Supervisor's performance.

The Fleet Outage Manager reports directly to the Operations Director, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Shawville Generating Station Plant Manager. This position works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, contractors, vendors, OEM representatives, and project stakeholders to support safe and efficient outage execution across the Heritage Project.

Physical requirements include standing for extended periods of time, climbing stairs and ladders, working from elevated platforms and walkways at varying heights, and routinely lifting up to 50 pounds.

Power plant environment that may involve entering confined spaces, crawling through narrow areas, and handling hazardous materials, with exposure to fumes, extreme temperatures, and noise. Work may include high heat near equipment and varying outdoor weather conditions.

Some duties may require the use of protective equipment, which can include hard hats, safety glasses, and eye protection, air masks/respirators, ear protection, chemical suits, flame-resistant clothing (FRC), hot gloves, high-voltage protective gear, and fall protection. Fit testing for respirators may be required. Strict smoking restrictions apply…