Team Leader, Maintenance

Job Title: Team Leader, Maintenance

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Texas, Inc.-GTX 

 

At Entergy, we’ve been planning for the future for more than 100 years. We’ve experienced a lot of change, generating power first from sawdust to splitting atoms, harnessing sunlight, and using abundant, clean and efficient natural gas. We are leading the clean energy transformation for the utility industry and continue to explore alternative technologies.

 

We are on the verge of a monumental technology convergence, where reality swiftly catches up to possibility. The utility of the future does much more than keep the lights on and the gas flowing. It’s knowledgeable and skillful workforce will solve challenges and fuel a brighter, smarter, cleaner, and more prosperous future for everyone. 

 

Having the lowest retail electricity rates of any utility in the United States drives economic growth within Entergy’s region, a key ingredient to sustained growth for any utility. We also believe a diverse workforce committed to personal and professional growth is critical to our success. We place a high priority on developing talent to meet current and future needs, giving employees opportunities to grow their careers their way. We’ve committed over the next three decades to reduce our carbon emissions from our operations to net-zero by 2050.  

 

Entergy’s Power Generation group operates a fleet of more than 30 owned, leased, or operated natural gas, coal, oil hydro, solar and petroleum coke plants, with a total engineering capacity exceeding 20,000 megawatts. Entergy continues to build or acquire megawatts from new hydrogen capable natural gas units, solar, wind and other technologies complement its existing megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric, and solar facilities. 

 

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for safety, compliance, budgeting, reliability, and all other aspects of the maintenance program of the plant.  Provides direction to maintenance personnel, schedules resources, and manages staffing issues. Provides leadership for and the development of direct reports to embrace a culture of strong fundamentals of operation and maintenance. Embraces human performance improvement initiatives.  Assures that plant operations/maintenance personnel comply with safe work practices and processes, comply with plant procedures, and efficiently and effectively operate and maintain the plant equipment
• Ranks and prioritizes reliability and financial risks using data analysis and historical and predictive maintenance information from both internal and external industry sources.  Works with Plant Asset Team Lead &  Fleet Maintenance group in overseeing long-range and detailed planning and execution of Power Generation unit outage, including management of cost, schedule and safety processes for outage scope
• Responsible for input in preparing and planning near-term and strategic maintenance budget.  Provides and supports budget/project development and cost control for short range work plans and long-range strategic planning. Prepares and manages budget in assigned area to leverage the financial process to manage deviations from the approved annual budget
• Collaborates with Planning and Operations personnel and assigns resources to address emerging maintenance issues.  Initiates and provides leadership in respect to contract management/contractor oversight for routine and outage work.  Staffs and manages routine, planned, emergency, and reserve outages as well as assigned projects. Develops schedule and budget related to routine maintenance and planned outages.
• Interfaces with other members of plant management team to drive resolution of key issues impacting business processes, budget, maintenance strategies, outage scope, schedule and costs for facilities.  Evaluates and champions gap closure actions that are consistent with the company's overall business strategy.  Leads site teams to identify and implement maintenance strategies and funding needs for equipment processes
• Develops and maintains str