Power Generation Outage Manager, Principal

Requisition ID # 164820 

Job Category: Power Generation; Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Operations - Other

Work Type: Onsite

Job Location: Shaver Lake; Auberry

 

 

 

Department Overview

 

Power Generation operates and maintains PG&E's hydroelectric, fossil, solar generation and battery storage facilities, providing approximately 5,300 megawatts of generating capacity for our customers. Our nearly 1000 coworkers are dedicated to delivering safe, reliable and cost-effective generation to California in an environmentally responsible manner. Our hydro facilities include 62 conventional hydro powerhouses, a pumped-storage facility, 98 reservoirs, 168 dams and more than 200 miles of canals and flumes, among other water conveyances. Natural gas-fired plants in operation are Humboldt Bay Generating Station in Eureka; Colusa Generating Station in Colusa County and Gateway Generating Station in Antioch. Several utility-scale solar generation plants also are operated and maintained, as well as PG&E’s successful entry into battery energy storage, our Elkhorn Battery facility at Moss Landing in Monterey County.

 

Position Summary

 

Manages outages in Hydroelectric Powerhouses or Fossil Power Plants throughout the PG&E system.

 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Works closely with key stakeholders in developing technical scope, planning, pricing, contract structure and incentives, contractor performance, and quality control.
• Communicates (oral and written) recommendations and findings to high level leaders and officers.
• Manages complex outages, maintenance activities and some capital projects, typically over than 6 weeks in duration and cost from 5 to 50 million.
• Manages a cross-functional matrix team in developing, implementing, and updating of an outage schedule.
• Performs evaluation of emergent outage work.
• Works with Asset Management and Planning to reduce the amount of emergent work during an outage.
• Leads outage pre-planning and coordinates all startup activities.
• Provides oversight for outage scope control.
• Works on unique and complex problems having broad impact that require in depth analysis and judgment to obtain results or solutions.
• Ensures appropriate scope freeze deadlines and pre-outage activities.

 

 

Qualifications

Minimum:

 

• High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
• Experience in O&M-Operations and Maintenance
• Experience in operations, job-related, 10 years
• CA Class C License, or equivalent

 

Desired:

 

• Cluster-Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Contract and Commercial Management certification

• PMP or CCM certification

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