Director of Operations, STARS

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions?  At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace!

 

This opportunity is eligible for a Remote Working arrangment (within the United States). 

 

Your Day to Day:

WEC Core Values and Standards

• Set and reinforce standards and expectations for the organization that exemplify the core values and standards of WEC and the industry by providing leadership and direction to WEC site management and staff.
• Ensure that the implementation and enforcement of the WEC Safety Program is consistent across all assigned sites, and that the WEC Site Manager/Project Manager[s] and staff are held accountable for the ownership and implementation of the program.
• Ensures that the WEC Site Leadership Team[s] demonstrate, adheres to, and upholds WEC Core Values.
• Ensures that WEC processes and procedures are followed and holds WEC site leadership team[s] accountable for using these processes to effectively manage the implementation of the contract and the completion of work.
• Ensures that the WEC site leadership teams effectively execute all work in a safe and productive manner, in accordance with the quality standards of both the customer and WEC
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to safety and provides leadership for implementation of the WEC safety program at their assigned sites.
• Ensures that the site leadership team[s] have a clear understanding of contract goals, strategies, methods, and that roles and responsibilities are well understood and demonstrated.

 

Contract Oversight

• Responsible to fully understand contract requirements, obligations, and commitments in order to fairly implement the business and protect WEC interests.
• Responsible for oversight and administration of the WEC MMC contract with the Client.
• Oversee the performance monitoring structure and reporting for the assigned contract[s], including weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and KPIs that give insight into performance and trends.
• Ensures effective project and contract management governance, procedures, tools and financial controls are established and maintained for MMC and project operations at assigned site[s].
• Responsible for the review of all Sub-contracts, including those from other WEC business units, and sub-contractor estimates.

 

Outage and Project Readiness

• Responsible to ensure that the WEC Site Leadership Teams meet all WEC outage prepration matrix milestones and Site outage preparation milestones for outages at assigned sites.
• Provides oversight to ensure that all necessary planning and project controls tools/elements are in place, meet WEC standards/expectations, and are being implemented to support outage and project execution.
• Ensures adequate organizational resources are prioritized and deployed to support planning and implementation efforts.
• Responsibe to ensure that outage readiness assessments are scheduled for each outage, teams are assigned for WEC T-6, T-3, and T-1 outage readiness assessments, and coordinates the T-1 Executive Challenge and the Pre-Outage Kick-off presentation.
• Ensures the WEC Risk Identification and Mitigation process is used during outage and on-line work planning and preparation process, and during implementation. 
• Responsible for ensuring that the site leadership teams are utilizing the WEC MMC Site Manager Playbook and all applicable tools.
• Ensures that the site team reviews lessons learned and process improvements from previous WEC experiences/outages and implements applicable corrective actions.

 

Continuous Improvement

• Supports the site with the development and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities, communicating these opportunities for best practice and lessons learned across the organization, and looking for opportunities to add value to WEC and our clients.
• Responsible for capturing and sharing internal and external industry knowledge and best practices.
• Oversees the performance monitoring structure and reporting for the assigned contract[s], including weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and KPIs that give insight into performance.
• Oversees the effective implementation of a corrective action and assessment process for assigned sites.
• Participates in WEC wide performance improvement initiatives, including outage readiness assessments at other WEC locations, or as assigned.
• Acts as primary interface with other WEC organizations when sup