DOTP - Outage Manager

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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.

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Please Note : The base salary range for this position is : $120,560 - $198,960

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.