About this role
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Oversee the day-to-day operations and maintenance of the facility to support achieving company and group goals.
- Select, train and manage a work force that is motivated, flexible in skills, cross-trained and technically astute ensuring an effective and motivated team.
- Maintain good relationships with key suppliers to ensure deadlines and fiscal targets are met.
- Works with Maintenance Manager to plan and coordinate plant maintenance as required to maximize plant availability.
- Ensure production is cost effective.
- Promote a team atmosphere and a strong culture of plant ownership
- Monitor the production processes and adjust schedules as needed.
- Implement and drive continuous improvement activities through implementation of change management process and best practices.
- Optimize resource utilization by implementation of an effective production organization.
- Coordinate plant production per contracts and owners’ representatives.
- Implement, track, and maintain training and qualification programs.
- Make expeditious appropriate decisions to non-routine plant operating conditions.
- Prepare accurate plant documentation, to assure proper historical records and reporting of plant operation and maintenance.
- Formulate and executes projects assigned by Plant Manager.
- Ensure active compliance with environmental, health & safety, and NERC programs.
- Other duties as designated by the company.
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, or the equivalent in training or experience.
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in power plant operations and maintenance required.
- Extensive knowledge of gas and steam technologies preferred.
- Experience with operations and maintenance of gas turbine, steam turbine, generators, electronic controls and monitoring devices.
- Proven managerial/supervisory experience.
- Knowledge of human resources desired.
- Proficiency with personal computers, including Excel.
- Demonstrated experience indicating effective communication skills, analytic ability, detail orientation, and ability to make decisions and meet deadlines.
- Driving on company business is a requirement of this position and as such, the incumbent shall have and maintain a valid driver’s license.
- Performs repetitive and non-repetitive physical duties. Requiring lifts, pushing, pulling, stretching, bending, climbing, working in awkward positions, and lifting up to 50 lbs.