Power Plant Maintenance Manager

Job Description Summary

GE Gas Power has an opening for a Maintenance Manager at the River Road Generating Station in Vancouver, WA. The plant is a 242 MW Combined Cycle natural gas fired plant that began commercial operation in 1997. The River Road Generating Plant consists of one GE 7FA.02 gas turbine, one GE A-12 steam turbine and one GE 324 generator all directly coupled in a STAG configuration.

We are looking for a leader that is passionate about being part of a team that is interested in advancing innovative clean energy solutions.

About GE:

GE Gas Power is a world leader in power generation with deep domain expertise that helps customers deliver electricity from a wide spectrum of fuel sources. We are transforming the electricity industry with the digital power plant, the world’s largest & most efficient gas turbine, full balance of plant solutions and our data-leveraging software. Our innovative technologies and digital offerings help make power and water more affordable, reliable, accessible and sustainable.

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Description

Role Summary/Purpose:

In this role, you’ll maintain and oversee replacement, installation and maintenance of generation plant equipment and structures; you’ll identify, analyze, and implement preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance; oversee plant computer and control systems; collect and analyze maintenance data via CMMS and develop/manage major maintenance planning and execution.

Essential Responsibilities:

As the Maintenance Manager, you will:

• Maintain care, custody, control, and safe maintenance practices.

• Promote a safe working environment and ensure that all personnel and contractors follow facility and company safety procedures and policies.

• Complete NERC Compliance maintenance activities.

• Manage Predictive and Preventive maintenance activities at the Facility to ensure equipment reliability.

• Assure safe, timely and efficient resolution of problems to return systems and equipment to ready-to-run condition and meet system operability needs.

• Lead the Maintenance team and ensure work group activities are performed on time and within budget through effective planning, organizing, scheduling, and monitoring of work activities and utilization of resources.

• Provide strong leadership and coaching for the maintenance department.

• Manage outside contractor performance, including evaluating proposals and quotations, generating purchase requisitions, providing direction and expectations, and monitoring work performance.
  
  Supervise regulatory compliance for NERC, environmental, health, and safety requirements.

• Assist in annual budget preparation for owner and effectively manage plant expenditures.

• Follow operational objectives consistent with achieving maximum plant efficiency to meet customer requirements in the most safe, reliable, economical, and environmentally safe manner.

• Develop and implement training and personnel resource plans to ensure adequate resources to satisfy plant needs.

• Identify and diagnose equipment and system operating failures and abnormal conditions. Identify and initiate corrective actions as appropriate with the assistance of other staff members.

• Develop the Weekly and Monthly Facility Reports.

• Maintain availability 24 hours per day on-call basis with backup from the Plant Manager, or designee.

• Participate in outage planning and execution to ensure the safety of personnel and on-time completion of the work scope. Plan, track, and document work completion.

• Work in conjunction with plant personnel and contractors to develop and maintain outage scope of work planning and execution.

• Facilitate and coordinate proactive risk assessment and root-cause analysis of equipment failures and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented.

• Develop and implement process improvements utilizing Management of Change procedures.

• Recruit, interview and actively participate in the selection of maintenance personnel. Assure proper staffing, scheduling and training of maintenance personnel.

• Maintain consistent communications…