Power Plant Maintenance Coordinator – Chattahoochee Energy Facility

Oglethorpe Power Corporation•Franklin, GA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Oglethorpe Power is seeking an experienced Maintenance Coordinator to support the Chattahoochee Energy Facility, a combined-cycle generating plant in Franklin, Georgia. The role plans and coordinates maintenance work from initial request through safe execution and completion, supporting two combustion turbine generators, two heat recovery steam generators, one steam turbine generator, and associated auxiliary equipment. The position is plant-based and requires regular field presence in an active power-generation environment. It may require work outside normal business hours, outage support, and participation in a 24-hour call response for events affecting generation operations, rating, or reliability. Travel is approximately 30%.

Requirements

Eight years of outage maintenance and management experience in an operating commercial electric power-generating plant is preferred.
Experience using a computerized maintenance management system.
Equivalent preparation may include a two-year technical degree plus ten years of directly related maintenance and management experience in an electric power plant environment, or twelve years of directly related maintenance and management experience in an electric power plant environment.
Relevant technical education, industrial training, certifications, military training, and related industrial or military leadership experience may be considered when evaluating equivalent experience.
Ability to safely access work areas that may include stairs, scaffolding, heights, confined spaces, areas near or over water, and locations near high-voltage equipment.
Ability to wear required personal protective equipment, including respiratory protection.
Ability to lift or carry up to 75 pounds of tools, equipment, or materials.
Ability to work outside normal business hours as needed, support forced and planned maintenance outages and plant meetings, and participate in a 24-hour call response.
Willingness to travel approximately 30%.

Nice To Haves

Eight years of outage maintenance and management experience in an operating commercial electric power-generating plant.
Strongly preferred experience with Maximo.
A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, engineering technology, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

Plan preventive, predictive, corrective, and special-project maintenance activities.
Conduct field walkdowns to understand work scope, clarify needs with requestors, and identify safety hazards or potential execution issues.
Develop work plans that include labor estimates, craft requirements, materials, tools, rental equipment, contractor support, and expected duration.
Maintain maintenance backlogs and develop weekly and four-week projected schedules aligned with available plant resources.
Ensure labor, materials, tools, equipment, and contractor resources are ready before work is scheduled.
Coordinate with Plant Operations and Maintenance leadership, craft personnel, outage coordinators, contractors, and support teams to address planning and scheduling needs.
Support outage planning, including outage personnel schedules and schedule-change tracking.
Manage work orders through completion in Maximo and ensure accurate documentation of repair history, downtime, labor, materials, costs, and other required details.
Review maintenance KPIs and performance data to identify improvements in planning, scheduling, work execution, and plant performance.
Administer the facility's Conduct of Maintenance Program, facilitate post-work critiques, and apply lessons learned to future maintenance practices.
Support budget and scope control, self-assessments, risk assessments, action-item tracking, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
Help ensure compliance with OPC safety policies and procedures, mandatory electric reliability standards, and applicable FERC, EPA, EPD, OSHA, DOT, and other regulatory requirements.