Cycle Manager

Responsibilities

The Cycle Manager is responsible for safe, effective, and risk‑informed development, maintenance, and execution readiness of the integrated station schedule across all modes of operation.

The role controls schedule scope and risk from long‑range development of the online schedule through near‑term turnover to the Work Week Manager, ensuring work is appropriately challenged, prioritized, coded, resourced, and aligned with station risk, plant availability, equipment reliability, radiation exposure, equipment availability, qualification needs, and resource availability.

The Cycle Manager leads the Cycle Scheduling team and facilitates cross‑functional alignment with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Work Week Managers, Outage, Supply Chain/Materials, Performance Improvement, Station Leadership, and External Stakeholders.

Maintain the long‑term rolling station schedule that provides the backbone for integrated station schedule development and routine work execution.

Manage work schedule health, including surveillances, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, modifications, corrective and elective work, seasonal readiness scope, and other station commitments.

Control schedule scope changes from long‑range development through execution handoff, including T‑26 through T‑10 schedule windows, balancing station risk, divisional weeks, equipment availability, resource loading, clearances, operational windows, qualifications, and work‑release decisions to support safe and efficient execution.

Own and facilitate the station Surveillance program and ensure surveillance, preventive, repetitive, and routine activities are incorporated into the schedule and ready for execution.

Lead the seasonal readiness scheduling process, including incorporation and coding of winter preparedness and other seasonal commitments prior to required completion dates.

Maintain schedule‑of‑opportunities processes to identify windows for opportunistic work, bundled scope, resource leveling, and improved station productivity.

Coordinate with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, System Engineering, Electrical, Finance/Business, and other stakeholders to align identified work with execution windows and station priorities.

Own or support work order screening, initial prioritization, deficiency coding, and schedule impact evaluation to ensure work is appropriately challenged before inclusion in the schedule.

Support CAP and Action Way disposition, action assignment, closure review, and CR/AR screening to ensure schedule‑related corrective actions are timely, assigned, and aligned with station expectations.

Manage and report work order backlog performance, identify adverse trends, and drive backlog reduction strategies with line organizations.

Own or support recurring performance inputs and assessments associated with online work management, including T+1 reports, T‑5/T‑2 oversight, PIC data, INPO inputs, and station performance dashboards.

Use data from station systems and reporting tools such as QLIK, Syntempo, Oracle, Action Way, DLAP, and T+1 products to identify learning, performance gaps, and corrective actions.

Develop, revise, and improve work management procedures, training materials, and process documents.

Lead the Cycle Scheduling team and mixed‑discipline station working committees in a manner that builds ownership, accountability, teamwork, and conservative decision‑making.

Train, mentor, and qualify Cycle Scheduling personnel, including development of expectations, working files, cross‑training, and succession strength.

Provide coaching and oversight to Work Week Managers, Discipline Schedulers, and other process users to improve schedule preparation, turnover quality, and execution performance.

Develop and deliver work management training and learning sessions for station users, including Online Work Management T&L, Syntempo/process training, and…