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Sr. Manager, Maintenance

Covert, MI, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Jun 2025

About the role

Position: Sr. Manager, Maintenance
Location: Palisades Energy

Holtec Palisades seeks qualified applicants for the position of Sr. Manager, Maintenance in its Maintenance department based at Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert, MI.

Palisades is positioned to become the first nuclear power plant in the United States to restart after previously entering the early stages of decommissioning. By joining our team, you will be part of a unique and historic undertaking for the nuclear industry and the nation!

Job Summary:
The Senior Manager of Maintenance is responsible for maintenance of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation and controls systems at Palisades. This includes the work management process that supports maintenance.
Key responsibilities include:

Oversee maintenance department activities and work requests to ensure adherence to plant schedule.
Manage departmental activities and work requests to determine manage total impact on requirements, industry guidelines, priority needs, and available resources, safe work practices, and with consideration to industry guidelines.
Manage the development and execution of the site work schedule, work plans, and the preventive maintenance program.
Provide and maintain administrative systems and procedures to effectively execute and document activities in accordance with company policies, and goals and, in accordance with all pertinent regulations, permits, licenses, and the quality assurance program.
Negotiate with vendors to acquire parts and services.
Keep site senior management leadership informed of all conditions or situations which could affect the safe and efficient operation of the facility.
Ensure proper selection, training and qualification of personnel, including exposure to other departments. Provide training feedback on program effectiveness based on evaluation of trainee performance. Ensure proper selection, training and qualification of personnel, including exposure to other departments.
Set and continuously reinforce station productivity and schedule performance standards. Responsible for ensuring all station System Outages, Plant Down Powers and Plant Outages are executed with the highest level of Risk Mitigation, Safety and Efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications:

BS degree in Engineering or other scientific discipline generally associated with power plant operations or Equivalent Experience. (Equivalent Experience is defined as demonstrated success at the Superintendent level. A degree is very strongly preferred.)
8 years of accumulated experience in either nuclear power design, construction, maintenance, operations, radiation protection, Process and Systems Operations (P&SO) work management, or equivalent. 5 years supervisory/management experience.
Technical understanding of nuclear generation principles and operation and maintenance.
SRO license or certification on a PWR or BWR (desired).
Must meet or exceed ANSI/ANS-3. 1-1978 - 4.2.3 - Maintenance Manager. At the time of initial core loading or appointment to the position, whichever is later,