Outage Manager

Location: Jewett

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** Essential Duties/Responsibilities:*
* Include, but are not limited to the following:

+ Provides direct leadership for safety and environmental compliance for Outage activities, personnel, and results

+ Promotes productivity and teamwork in assigned area with open communication, timely decision making, and use of personal leadership skills to set high standards of performance while providing the direction necessary to achieve that performance

+ Promotes and supports the development of technical, leadership, and business skills of employees to carry out responsibilities in a competitive environment

+ Provides direct leadership and supervision to Outage Planner Schedulers

+ Provides regular feedback to employees on their performance to allow them to capitalize on their strengths and focus on opportunities for improvement

+ Demonstrates behavior that encourages and rewards employee involvement, innovative thinking, adaptation to change, responsible risk taking, customer focus, and continuous improvement

+ Ensures development and implementation of assigned area goals, objectives, and initiatives

+ Supports and emphasizes importance of safety and environmental programs and ensures regulatory compliance

+ Reviews performance with customers/clients and addresses opportunities for improvement

+ Works with Planning and Scheduling to implement work management best practices derived from the NRG Maintenance Team.

+ Ensures work management reports are established and provided to maintenance and operations

+ Ensures assignment of maintenance analysis process and monitors for effectiveness

+ Ensures all Company resources are utilized in a cost-effective manner, estimates resource requirements, monitors expenditures, and reports on performance of assigned area

+ Assigns work and holds employees accountable for their performance

+ Performs field inspections of job sites and work in progress

+ Recognizes problems and is proactive in helping to resolve them

+ Maintains a working relationship with employees consistent with personnel policies and procedures

+ Manage multiple consecutive outages while ensuring future outage planning is in development in addition to ensuring effective daily/routine planning and scheduling is occurring

+ Interfaces with Operations to determine system priorities

+ Interfaces with Engineering and Commercial Operations on approval of the Outage Schedule for generating units.

+ Coordinates between Engineering, Plant Management, Engineering and Commercial Operations for Outage Schedule changes.

+ Acts as Plant's process owner for NRG Texas outage management and performance optimization processes.

+ Tracks the development of work plans, schedules, and cost for all outages or other events as required

+ Ensures Strategic Long Rang Planning Process (SLRP) is incorporated into outage planning and development process

+ Develops and presents Outage Readiness Review ORR to management

+ Ensures manpower requirements with maintenance crafts, operations, and contractors are coordinated to optimize resource utilization.

+ Monitor outage performance and provides regular reports on key performance indicators to management

+ Maintains Outage Performance database and produces performance reports

+ Maintains Outage Readiness Index ORI and Outage Performance Index OPI.

+ Schedules lessons learned meetings after Inspection Outages and tacks/monitors actions items to completion.  Ensures past lessons learned are reviewed in preparation for upcoming outages

+ Works with other plants on sharing of Outage Best Practices

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* Working Conditions:

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* + Normal office environment and/or power plant environment

+ Requires operation of a motor vehicle, Valid State Driver's License

+ Work overtime and non-standard working hours as required

+ Requires occasional travel outside service area

+ Requires operation of a personal computer

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* Minimum Requirements:

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* + Minimum of 8 years of experience in a power plant operation, maintenance, planning and outages.

+ Demonstrated experience with successful outages

+ High school diploma or GED required

+ Knowledge of SAP…