DOTP-Operations & Maintenance Manager

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Job Summary:

This position is accountable for all aspects of operations and maintenance at the Cedar Bayou 4 Plant with the emphasis on work safety, environmental compliance, quality, productivity, and employee leadership.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Ensure safe operation and environmental compliance of power plant equipment
• Ensure reliability-based maintenance planning process is effective
• Serves as safety management sponsor
• Communicate equipment status and budget with Co-Owner
• Ensure operational aspects of work management process are effective
• Work with the Environmental Coordinators to ensure environmental compliance
• Provide input for Operational and Maintenance budgets
• Provides visible and active support for the plant reliability program

• Support continual improvement and operational excellence through the following programs:
  • Safety Programs
  • Environmental Compliance
  • Conduct of Operations
  • Alarm Management
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Reliability Centered Maintenance
  • Cycle Chemistry Monitoring and Improvement
  • Lock-out tag-out
  • Change Analysis
  • Operator Driven Reliability

• Support outage execution to ensure safe, productive, and cost-effective outages
• Ensuring the PDM program meets operation and maintenance needs of the plant
• Develop/improve Operator Training and Skills Enhancement Programs

• Maintaining current written procedures to improve plant performance and to ensure consistent operation between crews
• Developing appropriate shifts, schedules, staffing, and response programs to control costs and enhance response time and performance
• Ensure requirements of NERC reporting are met
• Manage plant maintenance backlogs

• Member of Hurricane Team
• Monitor progress of plant goals

Working Conditions:

• Normal office environment and/or power plant environment
• Work overtime and non-standard working hours as required
• Requires wearing personal protective safety equipment (respirators, safety glasses, hard hat, appropriate footwear, gloves, ear plugs, etc.)
• May be required to work around rotating and energized equipment, hazardous materials and chemicals
• Requires operation of a motor vehicle; valid state Driver’s License.  
• Requires operation of a personal computer

Minimum Requirements:

• High School diploma and a minimum of 6 years’ experience in operations/maintenance OR a Baccalaureate degree in an Engineering, Business, or related discipline from an accredited college/university and 4 years’ experience in related field.
• Experience with Gas Turbines.
• Experience leading/supervising employees in related field.
• This position requires extended work hours to support the plant as required.  The incumbent is required to be available on a 24/7 emergency basis.
• 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, and once placed will be a participant in the NRG DOT Program.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in both maintenance and operations.
• The candidate should have a wide range of skills and experience sufficient to teach workers at all levels of the organization.

Additional Knowledge and Abilities:

• Strong leadership ability, writing, planning, communication skills, a strong working knowledge of Company policies and procedures, along with an understanding of union labor agreements, are required. 
• Proven skills relating to computer applications such as SAP, project scheduling, budgeting, safety and industrial hygiene, and an understanding of power plant operations are essential. 
• The successful candidate will have experience in operations and maintenance, with demonstrated experience in operational excellence.

Physical Requirements:

• 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 as appropriate 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.