Manager of Outage Planning and Major Maintenance

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Job Details:

Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU), in the beautiful and award winning Gainesville, Florida, is looking for a Manager of Outage Planning and Major Maintenance with at least seven years progressively responsible experience in maintenance of high pressure steam-electric generating plants, including three years’ experience in a plant engineering or supervisor capacity. GRU Energy Supply has four plant sites (Deerhaven Generating Station, John R. Kelly Generating Station, Deerhaven Renewable Generating Station, and South Energy Center) with a total of 10 generating units. This position will direct a group that oversees the planning, coordination and execution of power plant outages as well as preventative and corrective maintenance on power plant equipment and systems. This position is responsible for the forecasting, budgeting, planning, oversight, and execution of scheduled outage and maintenance work scopes. This position will be responsible for the leadership and management of a Major Maintenance Group that consists of craft trade Maintenance Supervisors, Power Plant Maintenance Mechanics, Power Plant Instrument & Control Technicians, Maintenance Planners, and Utility Plant Engineers of various engineering disciplines. Responsible for the engineering and support of the electric power generating facilities as well as the support of the operations and maintenance of all the plants.

Job Description:

SUMMARY

This is high level managerial work in the maintenance of electric generating stations (power plants), central utility plants (CUP) and combined heat and power plants (CHP).  This position is accountable for activities related to the major maintenance and outage planning of the GRU Energy Supply fleet of power assets, CUP and CHP plants.  Work will include direct supervision of engineers, planners, maintenance supervisors, and the direct/indirect supervision of a bargaining unit work force, contractor personnel, consultants, technical advisors and others as deemed appropriate.

Positions allocated to this class report to a designated supervisor and work under general supervision.  Work in this class is distinguished from higher classes by its lack of overall plant management responsibility, and from lower classes by its divisional managerial responsibility and emphasis on power, CUP and CHP plant maintenance.

EXAMPLES OF WORK

This section of the job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities of the position.  The omission of a specific job function does not absolve an employee from being required to perform additional tasks incidental to or inherent in the job.  Performance of lower level duties may be required..

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

·       Achieve established goals for Safety, Environmental, Schedule, Cost, Quality and Regulatory Compliance for each planned outage.

·       Plans, organizes, schedules and directs activities of an assigned maintenance division across the GRU Energy Supply fleet of assets.  Directs development and implementation of all activities related to outage planning which includes:  scope development, scheduling, staffing, cost and duration estimation, job planning packages, and outage execution of all associated activities.

·       Directs facilitation, planning and execution of all activities related to long-term outage planning which includes:  cost estimation, budgeting, overhaul administration and tactical planning related to overall administration and task level planning.

·       Directs the development and upkeep of long-term outage scheduling which includes:  outage staffing, safe execution of outage activities, adherence to cost and schedule targets and outage documentation of job close-out.

·       Directs the process required for work identification, prioritization, organization, execution and documentation of Outage and other Major Maintenance work across the GRU Energy Supply fleet of assets.

·       Assures conformance with plants administrative policies and procedures within an assigned maintenance division.

·       Formulates and directs implementation of plants maintenance policies, procedures and practices.

·       Directs development and implementation of plant performance programs and maintenance planning, scheduling, and work order control programs and procedures.

·       Directs implementation and reinforcement of safety planning for outage and major maintenance activities which includes:  pre-outage safety risk analysis, development of job hazard analysis and coordination of safety procedures for both internal facilities and external contractors.

·       Responsible under the Production Managers for the coordination and recovery of environmental compliant equipment, spills, maintenance of equipment and root-cause analysis of non-conformance.

·       Prepares applicable portions of the annual maintenance and capital budgets for submission to and review by the Plant Production Managers and administers daily budget activities and expenditures.

·       Reviews, evaluates, recommends, and directs activities related to implementing major repairs, alterations, additions, and improvements to all three plant facilities.

·       Formulates and directs policies and procedures required for safe and efficient maintenance of facilities and use of personnel.

·       Assists in development of professional and craft technical training and industrial safety training programs for power production personnel and assures effective program implementation and administration.

·       Evaluates and recommends use of contractual services when cost effective, and administers contracts.

·       Prepares records and reports on plants operation and maintenance.

·       Recommends selection, promotion, discharge, and other appropriate personnel actions.

·       Attends work on continuous and regular basis.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in engineering or related subject, and seven years progressively responsible experience in  maintenance of high pressure steam-electric generating plants, including three years experience in a plant engineering or supervisory capacity, or an equivalent combination of training and experience which provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

CERTIFICATIONS OR LICENSES

Valid Florida Driver License required at time of appointment.