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DOTP - Outage Manager

This position will reside at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Nipton, California and report directly to the General Manager.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

               Include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provides direct leadership for EH&S compliance for Projects and Outage activities.
• 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 fulfill responsibilities in a competitive environment.
• 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 area goals, objectives, and initiatives.
• Supports and emphasizes importance of safety and environmental programs and ensures regulatory compliance during day-to-day operations.
• Reviews performance with customers/clients and addresses opportunities for improvement
• Works with Planning and Scheduling to implement outage and work management best practices derived from the NRG Fleet.
• Ensures work management reports are established and provided to Plant Lead Team.
• Ensures assignment of maintenance analysis process and monitors for effectiveness in a manner that supports outage planning and execution.
• 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 policies and procedures.
• Manage multiple consecutive outages, including forced, 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 outage and project priorities.
• Interfaces with Operations to ensure submittal and approval of Outage Schedules.
• Coordinates between internal and external stakeholders for Outage Schedule changes.
• Acts as Plant’s process owner for NRG outage, project management and performance optimization processes.
• Tracks the development of work plans, schedules, and cost for all projects and outages or other events as required
• Ensures Asset Integrity, Strategic Maintenance and MOC is incorporated into all outage and project planning.
• Develops and presents Outage Readiness Review ORR to management.
• Holds recurring Outage and Project meetings with Plant Personnel and all stakeholders to ensure effective communication.
• Ensures workforce requirements with maintenance crafts, operations, and contractors are coordinated to optimize resource utilization.
• Monitor outage and project performance. Provides regular reports on KPIs to management.
• Maintains Performance database and produces performance reports.
• Schedules lessons learned meetings after Inspection Outages and tracks/monitors actions items to completion. 
• Ensures past lessons learned are reviewed in preparation for upcoming outages.
• Works with other NRG plants on sharing of Project/Outage Best Practices.
• Willing to take on additional duties as requested by Manager.

Working Conditions:

• 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.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in a similar role within a power plant.
• Demonstrated experience with successful outages.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Knowledge of SAP work orders required.
• Knowledge of PowerSAM or similar Project Development Database with clear understanding of project economic justifications.
• Knowledge of Planning / Scheduling / Resource Loading.
• Knowledge of SAP financial and operations cost reports. Knowledge of scheduling software tools, scheduling, and CMMS systems e.g., SAP, MS Project, Primavera, or P6.

• The position is a DOT PHMSA covered position and requires the successful candidate to pass a pre-employment DOT drug screen and drug and alcohol testing background check. Once hired will be a participant in the NRG DOT Program.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related degree.
• Experience managing power plant employees and contractors strongly preferred.
• Strong scheduling experience preferred with PMP Certificate or Equivalent.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Understands the processes, systems, assets, resources, key personnel, and business functions of the department.
• Knowledge of power plant systems and operations; and comprehensive knowledge in the area of responsibility.
• Demonstrated effective leadership and personnel management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written) at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to establish and maintain a positive and professional working relationships.
• Ability to perform as a team member or leader in a cross-functional team environment and achieve consensus decisions.
• Ability to use a personal computer and standard business software.
• Ability to read, create and follow written policies and procedures.
• Ability to read, write and understand English.
• Ability to understand and use work management systems.
• Comprehensive knowledge of planning and scheduling methods.
• Comprehensive knowledge of maintenance analysis process.
• Knowledge of applicable safety and environmental regulations.

Competencies

• Uses and maintains technical and professional knowledge, shares that knowledge with others, and recognizes/applies new technology in a cost-effective manner.
• Obtains and applies knowledge of competitive business practices in daily work activities and decision making.
• Seeks and understands the customer/client’s needs and focuses on meeting and exceeding their expectations.
• Willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done (within reasonable limits and at no Safety/Environmental Risk).
• Anticipates and accepts changes in the organization and adapts to meet the new requirements.
• Committed to making the workplace safe and environmentally sound
• Willing to accept accountability for own decisions, performance, and behavior, as well as the performance of assigned employees.

Physical Requirements:

• Requires wearing personal protective safety equipment (respirators, safety glasses, hard hat, appropriate footwear, ear plugs, etc.).
• Required to work around rotating and energized equipment, hazardous materials, and chemicals.
• Requires standing, sitting, walking, kneeling, twisting, climbing stairs and ladders, and entering plant equipment to access, inspect, or collect data on plant equipment.
• Occasionally requires lifting to perform duties and responsibilities.

Please Note:  Salary offered will be commensurate with the successful candidate’s education and/or experience and consistent with the job location’s market pay rate.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Official description on file with Talent.