Facilities & Comm Eng Supervisor

Energy NorthwestRichland, WA
$122,681 - $184,021Onsite

About The Position

Provide the leadership and supervision for Facilities/ Commercial Engineering, Plant and Nuclear Bargaining Units and Building Trades personnel that report directly to this position. Crew size could vary from 8 to 40 craftsmen. Leadership and supervision may need to be provided to other supervisors and engineers for the outage activities under your control.

Requirements

  • Requires a high school diploma or GED plus technical training or education similar to that acquired through an in-grade apprenticeship program for the applicable discipline and seven years of experience in assignments directly applicable to and in support of ensuring the safe, reliable and efficient operation of a facility or other large plant.
  • This experience must also include demonstrated leadership and planning capabilities as would normally be obtained in a lead or shop engineer role or similar job function.
  • Must have experience in an operating facility in maintenance or related activities.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare and stage assigned work to successfully meet established schedule, productivity and quality expectations.
  • Monitor assigned work in the field and coordinate necessary support and problem solving to assure proper completion.
  • Monitor individual and crew performance to assure performance standards are met and provide feedback on performance to employees.
  • Provide oversight for outage work activities under your control.
  • Provide leadership and supervision by supporting and implementing the vision, goals and standards of performance that aim the Facilities/Comm Eng Department towards continual improvements in teamwork, professionalism, productivity, and quality of work.
  • Ensuring programs, processes, and procedures support safe, efficient, and productive work practices.
  • Provide contractor and vendor oversite, providing feedback and coaching to Energy Northwest Standards and help resolve issues to achieve successful work.
  • Manage budget assigned to supervisor, ensure budget goals are met each year by implementing the work based on approved budget and provide updates to manager on deviations.
  • Providing sound guidance to crew members and making decisions consistent with management expectations and cost of power.
  • Providing estimates of person-hours for assigned tasks.
  • Reviewing assigned work packages and assuring support to perform the work is identified and scheduled.
  • Selecting and assigning appropriately skill-qualified personnel to perform assigned work.
  • Staging the work and preparing the individuals assigned by thorough pre-job briefings of the specific tasks and verifying their qualifications to successfully perform the work.
  • Coordinate with BPA, ASH Substation, Monroe control center, City of Richland for electrical outages and emergent issues that affect IDC, ENOC and Columbia facilities.
  • Coordinate with HMIS, DOE and Property owners for site maintenance and access for EP equipment.
  • Coordinate with PSRO, WWM, SM, SSS and security for daily and monthly work including but not limited to; plant equipment maintenance, B5B, Flex equipment, Demin Trailer, potable water repairs, fire protection, EP, emergency generators, E&RP, flex training.
  • Create contract Scope of Work documents and contract change requests.
  • Preparing the work site consistent with the scheduled activity start date to accommodate the safe, controlled performance of the activity.
  • Routinely observing and assessing the work site and status of work to assure that problems and coordination issues are being resolved in the field.
  • Making minor changes to work instructions as necessary to support work start and completion and involving the cognizant Facilities Engineer to resolve schedule impacting changes in a timely manner.
  • Assuring the work package is completed as the work is performed so that the package can be closed in a timely manner by those performing the work.
  • Assuring that management expectations, company policies and work related requirements are well understood and accurately communicating these with crew members both in content and context.
  • Supervising work in progress and providing coaching and feedback on individual and crew performance against the work plan, applicable requirements, and management expectations regarding the conduct of Facilities/Comm Eng. maintenance/modification work.
  • Reviewing work documentation prior to the closeout to ensure accuracy and completeness, and that work objectives are met.
  • Preparing follow-up reports to ensure problems identified during the performance of work are closed out properly (work requests, problem evaluation requests, etc.).
  • Establishing and monitoring individual performance and training plans for crewmembers and providing performance feedback on both a situational and periodic basis.
  • Assuring the proper conduct of OJT through observation and evaluation of OJT activities and feedback to the OJT instructor and student.
  • Determine the crew size required for outage support activities.
  • Determine the hire and termination dates for the crew to support training and the work.
  • Verify and accept all budgets and schedules for outage support.
  • Determine all training required for Building Trades craft schedule and verify successful completion of training prior to the start of work.

Benefits

  • Substantial retirement benefits through three retirement programs including the Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match component, and a 457(b) savings plan.
  • Multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage.
  • Flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
  • Tuition reimbursement.
  • Student loan repayment.
  • Childcare subsides.
  • Health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA).
  • Health savings account (HSA).
  • Supplemental life insurances.
  • Credit monitoring/identity theft insurance.
  • Personal time accrual rate of 160 hours per year.
  • Nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
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