Maintenance Supervisor

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Job Title:             MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR

Summary:

Responsible for all daily maintenance activities for Ivanpah Solar Thermal Electric Generating Station.  This includes responsibility for all maintenance functions, outage efforts, and planning work.  The position requires the development of fully planned work packages including duration, engineered drawings, vendor parts lists, stock materials listings, owner’s manuals and coordination of necessary resources.  Also responsible for implementation, and administration of the maintenance strategy in support of the Station’s Business Plan.  The successful candidate will support and satisfy station operations department priorities as identified during weekly planning meetings.

                                                          

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Improve the overall effectiveness of the station safety program by providing leadership setting example and enforcement of policies, including disciplinary actions.   Support the implementation of the NRG Energy Safety procedures and policies.

 

• Maintaining station reliability.  This requires making decisions, updating and formulating maintenance strategies on a continuous basis.

 

• Provide overall direction to maintenance personnel and contractor maintenance work activities to ensure timely and satisfactory job completion within budget and schedule limitations (this includes routine, forced, and scheduled work activities).

 

• Provide leadership and direction to the implementation of the Work Management System (SAP) as the enabler to the maintenance process.

• Developing and drafting written maintenance plans for weekly and outage maintenance scheduling.
• Determining and arranging for resources such as supplies, materials, parts and special tools or equipment required to perform maintenance inspections and/or work. Interpreting technical manuals, sketches, prints, instructions, manufacturer’s data and equipment history records in developing plans.
• Determining priority, cost, manpower and time estimates, re-evaluating estimates to reflect changing job requirements and preparing job sequence requirements for major plant projects and for specific maintenance work.
• Accumulating and analyzing data on actual versus estimated time, equipment, and manpower requirements.
• Initiating work orders for major scheduled or forced outages and participating in developing weekly plans.  
• Coordinating maintenance planning activities and reviewing work orders with the appropriate supervisors and other elements to assure mutual agreement with understanding, arranging for critical equipment isolation with production, maintaining liaison among production, maintenance and engineering to coordinate plant maintenance planning activities.
• Coordinate and oversee collateral duties and special projects as assigned.
• Support station safety, maintenance performance, root cause analysis, condition-based monitoring, proactive maintenance initiatives.
• Support of station forced outages and maintenance outages.  This may at times involve working night shift hours, weekends and holidays.

 

Required:

• 4 years’ experience leading, supervising or managing employees in power generation, operation of power plants, repairs of power plant equipment, marine propulsion power plant.
• An excellent working knowledge of plant steam, mechanical, electrical systems and their   appropriate integration for efficient and effective production

Preferred:

• Advanced degree in technical subjects.

 

Knowledge/Skills & Abilities:

• Demonstrated competencies relative to this position include accountability, adaptability/flexibility, building credibility, business acumen, customer focus, empowering others, gaining commitment, problem solving, shaping strategy, teamwork and tolerance for stress.  Strong communications and leadership ability is essential to succeeding in this position.

 

Working Conditions:

•  Normal office environment and power plant environment.

• Frequent trips into the field and interaction with operations is necessary to ensure proper planning for work.