Solid Fuels Energy Plant Maintenance Supervisor

DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.  But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences, and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.  The pay range for this position is $95,000.00  -  $125,000.00.

Job Summary

Location: Stockton, CA

This is a leadership position with responsibility for all aspects of the maintenance process including direct leadership and supervision of mechanical and electrical trades.  

As a leader, this position will be an integral part of the site management team. A high degree of communication and collaboration with others is required. Proactive leadership (by example) to reinforce DTE’s core values of Safety, Reliability, Efficiency, and Responsibility to continuously improve and develop employee culture is critical for the success of this position.

Management of the Identification, Planning, Scheduling, Execution and Closure (IPSEC) process to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the plant.  

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the employee functions as part of the site leadership team utilizing their technical expertise, discretion, and judgment within established policies, procedures, and practices. 

Results are reviewed through the achievement of set goals and adherence to these policies, procedures, and practices.

Key Accountabilities

*Maintains a strong safety culture. Complies with all site safety and environmental requirements and procedures. Identifies safety hazards and takes corrective actions as necessary. Assists with the development of, and ensures that all site safety requirements and procedures are properly implemented, consistently observed and corrective actions are initiated when applicable 
*Assigns and supervises daily, routine and plant/unit outage work activities of plant staff and contracted resources, including scheduled preventive maintenance, corrective, and routine work
*Evaluate required work and manage costs to perform, including evaluating in-house knowledge, skills, and abilities versus contractor services. Work to minimize contractor labor
*Daily, verifies new work order descriptions, priorities, and root cause analysis to properly plan, resource load and schedule the work
*Manage the procurement/purchasing of spare parts and materials for stock and non-stock
*Evaluate vendor quotes and services to determine most desirable supplier 
*Manage warehouse to ensure adequate spares and consumable parts inventory
*Represents the plant in dealings with equipment vendors, parts suppliers and contractors delivering material to the plant
*Establishes and adds to/modifies as required all predictive/preventive maintenance requirements programmed into the maintenance management system (Mainsaver)
*Performs PM spot checks to verify the quality of the process 
*Oversees mechanical and electrical inspections, troubleshooting and repairs on a variety of power plant equipment and systems 
*Oversees and provides guidance on all facility maintenance, including main plant and auxiliary components 
*Assist with managing uniform application and technical correctness of a comprehensive maintenance program, including forecasting manpower workload and equipment for short- term and long-term needs 
*Assists in developing standard procedures for operations and maintenance 
*Assists with the preparation, justification, and control of annual maintenance budgets 
*Ensure employee development, qualification and goals program are developed, executed, and adhered to 
*Available for scheduled and unscheduled work, performs tasks that require physical exertion and is expected to respond to off-hour call-ins. Work night shift as required during forced and planned outages
*Works closely with the plant management team to identify major maintenance and capital improvement
*Responsible for all planning and scheduling functions including but not limited to 3rd party equipment inspection schedules, weekly maintenance schedules, and work order schedule changes as the daily production