Capital Projects and Outage Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Develop and implement maintenance and reliability strategies for multiple simple-cycle generating facilities.

- Lead planning, budgeting, scheduling, and execution of major maintenance activities, inspections, outages, and overhauls.

- Manage capital projects from concept through commissioning and closeout.

- Develop technical scopes of work, RFPs, bid packages, and contractor evaluations.

- Negotiate and administer contractor agreements and service contracts.

- Monitor plant performance, reliability, availability, forced outages, starts reliability, and maintenance costs.

- Lead root cause investigations and corrective action programs.

- Develop annual maintenance and capital budgets and provide forecasting and variance reporting.

- Support NERC, environmental, safety, and compliance programs.

- Support plant corrective and preventative maintenance activities.

- Act as O&M Manager designee as assigned.

- Act as Plant Manager designee as assigned.

Qualifications and Skills

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering.

- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in power plant operations and maintenance required.

- Extensive knowledge of gas and liquid fuel technologies is preferred.

- Experience managing contractors, RFPs, procurement activities, and project budgets.

- Experience with operations and maintenance of gas turbines, generators, electronic controls, and monitoring devices.

- Prior experience with plant commissioning and start-up is preferred.

- Experience with GE 7FA, 7EA or Siemens 501 FC/FD turbines preferred.

- Proficiency with personal computers, including Excel.

- Demonstrated experience indicating effective communication skills, analytic ability, detail orientation, and ability to make decisions and meet deadlines.