Operations Technical Supervisor-Wise Power Plant

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Job Summary

The Plant Supervisor is responsible for supporting the operation and maintenance of Luminant Power Generating Stations. This role is also responsible for handling the technical and administrative needs of the generating station including but not limited to controls, environmental compliance, safety compliance, NERC compliance, event RCA’s, and other projects. 

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

•Supporting all aspects of the day–to-day operation and maintenance of a generating station

•Accountability can include supervising and directing multi-skill production and maintenance support personnel to achieve maximum reliable and safe operation of the generating units

•Effectively manage employee/labor relation in accordance with company policies and labor agreements where applicable

•Ensure and monitor safety and environmental compliance, regulatory compliance, administrative and procedural compliance, and documentation

•Assist in the coordination and implementation of special projects

•Supervisor may be asked to respond to emergency call out situations and assist in trouble shooting of system problems

•Interface frequently with outside vendors and contractors

​Assist in Planning and Scheduling for plant operational and maintenance activities.

·         Review and analyze unit start-up/shutdown/trip/upset conditions and document recommended corrective actions.

·         Review and analyze equipment failures and document recommended corrective actions.

·         Identify recurrent operational issues and determine if engineering, reliability, or best practice methods are needed to avoid such recurrent operational issues.

·         Be available on a call out basis 24 hours per day for operational issues or unit start-up/shutdown problems.    

·         Meeting with Plant Operators to review procedures, best practices, and progress towards targets. 

·         Lead brainstorming sessions to improve safety, unit emissions, production, reliability, availability, unit heat rate, and any other OPI related targets.

·         Coordinate shut down and start-up plans for planned outages.

·         Identify equipment efficiency, unit heat rate and reliability projects for consideration by management.

·         Provide operator training to insure best practice operations (safety, emissions, unit efficiency, unit reliability, availability, productivity) shift to shift.

·         Responsible for assisting coordination and submittal to the Regions of all NERC compliance self-certification and data request responses for the plant.

·         Coordinate the completion of internal NERC compliance audits of the Plant and the preparation and submittal of documentation required for Regional compliance audits of Vistra.

·         Provide assistance in NERC Cyber Security Standard implementation and subsequent compliance monitoring efforts

·         Assisting in EMS compliance and reporting

·         Ensure safety program is current and required training completed by personnel.

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements

•High School Diploma or GED Equivalent. Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications is applicable to some of the skills listed

•5-7 years of power generation plant experience required.

•Experience in using Maximo for planning work, creating purchase requests, and creating job plans is required.

•Experience with operations and maintenance at a power plant particularly control operator experience on a combined cycle uni