Senior Electrical Planner- Power Generation

Senior Electrical Planner- Power Generation

This job is eligible for relocation assistance to help aid with the costs of relocating to the Colorado Springs area.

The Plant Work Management team is hiring a Senior Electrical Planner to our team. This opportunity will allow you to utilize your maintenance experience coupled with your aptitude for routine and outage planning, scheduling, and coordinating repair activities associated with the electric-generating assets of our organization.  You will be responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating, and analyzing maintenance activities for various equipment and craft personnel. Your maintenance knowledge and analytical skills will be instrumental in maintaining the operational readiness condition of critical assets. 

Your thoughtful planning and dedication to excellence will ensure our electric generation system is constructed and maintained efficiently with the proper amount of analysis and schedule/planning rigor. This will enable Colorado Springs Utilities to provide the safe, reliable, and cost-effective delivery of electricity to our customer-owners. You will also implement and develop work management best practices for maintenance planning at Utilities’ plant environments.

This position will be centralized at the Nixon Power Plant location, however, it is expected to support all energy supply plants and remote sites within the Plant Work Management Group as business needs dictate.

How you will enjoy spending your time:

• Review, prepare, plan, schedule, and analyze routine and outage work orders
• Develop craft-specific job plans, material ordering, working in MAXIMO to allocate workload, and scheduling maintenance personnel at all Power Plants
• Develop weekly, and daily maintenance schedules for repair, PMs, and new installations of equipment involving Hydro Units, Coal Fired Boilers, Scrubbers, Gas Turbines, Coal Reclaim, and Water Treatment Facility along with the new Aeroderivative Units
• Responsible for overseeing Work Management Best Practices Implementation for Electric Generation assets   
• Create project work breakdown structure and collaborate with stakeholders to monitor, analyze, and report on projects in all phases of Work Management
• Create, maintain, and track service records associated with asset management, asset creation, LID, and PMs & JPs in Maximo
• Provide technical direction to a small group of professional, craft, and/or support personnel and act as mentor and trainer to planner analysts
• Attend meetings and participate in presentations to the management team concerning Outage Planning, Asset Integration, and Maintenance Planning Strategies
• Assist in developing Integrated Asset Management Strategies and implementation processes and standards for all ESD facilities, personnel, assets, and infrastructure

What we are looking for:
At the Planner Analyst Senior classification, candidates typically offer progressive experience in planning, scheduling, and analyzing construction and maintenance projects. Ideally, you will possess a minimum of 3 years of journey-level experience in a related craft such as Power Plant Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, or Plant Operations. Experience in construction planning or estimating processes is preferred. Experience with Asset Management Fundamentals is essential. An electric generation facility or related industry fields are also preferred. Additionally, we desire candidates who bring the following knowledge and experience:

• Experience performing data input and analytical analysis using various software applications, such as Power BI and Maximo 
• Knowledge of engineering, construction, and operations work management measurements, principles, and techniques
• Strong attention to detail and project management skills demonstrated in your ability to track, review, and analyze schedules throughout all phases of the project
• Experience estimating electrical and mechanical cost projections, including material, labor, and contracted services
• Experience with electrical generation attributes related to the repair of motors, switchgear, ductwork, lighting, and cabling
• Proficient at scheduling, planning, forecasting, monitoring, acquiring resources, project/program monitoring, analyzing, reporting, communicating, and developing weekly job schedules and digital work packets
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work cross-functionally with various stakeholders
• Excellent organizational skills in planning electrical and mechanical maintenance projects and repair
• Collecting data and analyzing results
• Colorado Springs Utilities CMMS (MAXIMO) system
• Microsoft Project, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Scheduling, pla