Maintenance Manager

The Lordstown Energy Center is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant. It features two Siemens SGT6-8000H combustion turbines and advanced air-cooled generators. The facility includes NEM triple-pressure reheat heat recovery steam generators and a Siemens SST6-5000 condensing turbine with a hydrogen-cooled generator, designed to optimize efficiency while supporting the regional power grid. Additional infrastructure, such as a 14-cell cooling tower and emissions control systems, underscores its commitment to reliable energy generation and environmental stewardship.

Opportunity Summary

The Maintenance Manager at Lordstown Energy Center leads the maintenance organization at a world-class Siemens SGT6-8000H combined-cycle facility known for high performance and operational excellence. This role is responsible for ensuring maximum reliability, availability, and efficiency of gas turbine, HRSG, and steam turbine systems-including SGT6-8000H combustion turbines and an SST6-5000 steam turbine-in a fast-paced, grid-responsive environment. It provides the opportunity to drive best-in-class maintenance strategies, strengthen a high-performing technical team, and directly impact plant performance and long-term asset value.

Your scope of responsibility as Maintenance Manager will include the following primary functions:

• Lead the plant maintenance function, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operation of combined-cycle equipment, including Siemens SGT6-8000H gas turbines, HRSGs, and steam turbine systems, while managing personnel, projects, and compliance.
• Supervise maintenance personnel to ensure corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance activities are executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with OEM recommendations, station procedures, and the maintenance management system.
• Support workforce development through recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and training to maintain a skilled maintenance team capable of supporting advanced combined-cycle operations and high-availability dispatch requirements.
• Promote and sustain a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with plant safety programs, supporting hazard recognition initiatives, and maintaining adherence to the station Safety Manual and regulatory requirements.
• Manage preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs to maximize reliability and availability of combustion turbines, steam turbine, HRSGs, balance-of-plant systems, and auxiliary equipment.
• Analyze equipment performance, reliability data, and failure trends (including vibration, thermodynamic performance, and condition monitoring outputs) to drive corrective actions, improve reliability, and reduce forced outages.
• Serve as project manager for maintenance and capital projects, coordinating schedules, resources, OEM/vendor support (including Siemens and specialty contractors), and technical execution to ensure safe, timely completion.
• Develop and manage contracts, scopes of work, budgets, and schedules for maintenance services, outage support, and specialty repair work, ensuring cost control and performance compliance.
• Prepare work packages, job plans, and scheduling inputs for planned outages, forced outages, and major maintenance events, including combustion inspections, hot gas path inspections, and HRSG outages.
• Ensure required parts, tooling, OEM spares, and contractor services are staged and available to support outage execution and emergent maintenance work.
• Review, validate, and maintain CMMS work orders, ensuring accurate failure coding, job history, and equipment performance tracking for reliability analysis.
• Administer the Management of Change (MOC) process to ensure equipment, control system, and procedural changes are properly evaluated, documented, and implemented in coordination with engineering and operations.
• Continuously evaluate maintenance strategies, procedures, and schedules to improve plant availability, cycling performance, start reliability, and heat rate efficiency.
• Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and NERC compliance teams to ensure maintenance activities support grid reliability, dispatch readiness, and ISO/PJM requirements.
• Maintain maintenance documentation, vendor records, inventory systems, and warehouse readiness while supporting long-range asset planning, OEM compliance, and stakeholder engagement.
• Complete special projects as assigned by the Plant Manager.

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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.

Working Relationships

The Maintenance Manager reports to the Plant Manager and supervises subordinate maintenance personnel. The Maintenance Manager coordinates with the Operations Manager,…