Maintenance Coordinator – Smarr Combined Cycle
About The Position
Oglethorpe Power is seeking a Maintenance Coordinator to help build and support the maintenance program for the new Smarr Combined Cycle Energy Facility, a 1,425 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle plant scheduled to begin commercial operations in June 2029. The role will also support the adjacent operating Smarr Peaking Plant. The Maintenance Coordinator plans, schedules, and coordinates preventive, predictive, corrective, and outage-related maintenance. The position helps establish maintenance processes, work controls, and team routines for the new facility while supporting safe, reliable operations. It combines office-based planning with work in an industrial generating-facility environment, supports a 24/7 operation, and includes on-call support during incidents and outages as needed. Travel is approximately 30%.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Experience using a computerized maintenance management system.
- Strong knowledge of power-plant equipment and systems, including mechanical, electrical, electronic, and instrumentation and controls equipment.
- Ability to read and interpret technical manuals, drawings, blueprints, diagrams, and process documentation.
- Strong planning, organization, analytical, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to coordinate the work of multiple crafts, contractors, and internal partners while managing competing priorities.
- Valid driver's license meeting company insurance eligibility requirements.
- Candidates with a two-year technical degree and 10 years of directly related power-plant maintenance/management experience, or 12 years of directly related experience, may be considered.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, engineering technology, or a related field.
- Eight years of maintenance and outage-management experience in an operating commercial power-generation plant.
- Maximo experience.
Responsibilities
- Plan, prepare, schedule, and coordinate preventive, predictive, corrective, and special-project maintenance work.
- Build weekly and four-week maintenance schedules, balancing labor capacity, backlog priorities, materials, contractors, tools, and equipment.
- Develop work scopes, estimate craft labor needs and durations, coordinate resources, and ensure work packages are ready before scheduling.
- Partner with Operations, Maintenance, outage coordination, contractors, and leadership to resolve planning and scheduling issues.
- Track work orders through completion in Maximo and ensure labor, materials, costs, equipment downtime, cause codes, and other required data are accurately recorded.
- Monitor maintenance KPIs and performance indicators to identify opportunities to improve planning efficiency and work execution.
- Support outage planning, including personnel scheduling, milestone tracking, scope and budget coordination, and post-work critiques.
- Maintain equipment records, drawings, spare-parts information, manuals, and preventive and predictive maintenance program data.
- Coordinate and direct plant maintenance personnel and contractors during assigned maintenance, troubleshooting, modifications, equipment checkouts, and rehabilitation work.
- Promote safe work practices and compliance with corporate policies, reliability standards, and environmental and safety regulations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
