Maintenance Planner II

Calpine • Middletown, CA

61d • $98,017 - $124,972 • Onsite

About The Position

Calpine, a business unit of Constellation Energy Corporation, is America's largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources. With 79 energy facilities, Calpine's fleet has the capacity to generate approximately 27,000 MW of electricity. The company was established on the premise that a strong commitment to the environment is inextricably linked to excellence in power generation and corporate responsibility. The Maintenance Planner II creates plans that permit the continued operation of equipment and systems affecting the company’s business operations. This role is responsible for determining, monitoring, and administering maintenance and operation work schedules to meet plant productivity needs. In coordination with plant management and project managers, the planner develops and implements work schedules after evaluating maintenance, operations, and engineering needs. This position exercises discretion and independent judgment based on plant operations, maintenance needs, resources, and timing considerations. The role is involved in planning long- and short-term business objectives involving maintenance, repair, and replacement of equipment, and manages long lead time items. The planner provides consultation and expert advice to the management team on managing resources and material, and investigates and resolves maintenance issues. Additionally, the role assesses the priority of maintenance requests, determines job requirements, and identifies appropriate staffing resources. The planner exercises discretion and independent judgment to integrate plant needs with maintenance/operation resources in developing detailed work schedules and labor hour studies. This role formulates maintenance plans, provides budgetary information, material requirement lists, budget tracking tools, and develops metrics to demonstrate performance and drive improvements of maintenance operations. The planner exercises discretion and independent judgment to administer schedule changes due to backlogs, design changes, and material or labor shortages. The role provides strategic analysis based on evaluating possible repairs and deciding whether equipment needs to be modified or replaced. The planner confirms that all documentation, including MOCs, Job Plans, and Safety work plans, are complete so work can proceed. The planner also manages inventory, warehouse counts, and works to ensure obsolete equipment is remediated at a minimum on an annual basis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and vocational/technical experience and education in maintenance, engineering-related field, or equivalent.
• Expert in department-specific software, databases, and spreadsheets; strong understanding of power maintenance/plant operations functions, administrative controls, or related.
• Generally requires 4-7 years’ of relevant experience.
• Ability to work independently and exercise good judgment as well as mastery of maintenance and control operations functions necessary to administer maintenance.

Nice To Haves

• Comprehensive knowledge of maintenance and plant operations.
• Advanced knowledge in the use of Maximo, Job Planning, labor management, and job estimating.
• Able to navigate and use all asset and financial tools for tracking historical work records.
• Seasoned professional with administrative skill and advanced applied experience.

Responsibilities

• Creates plans that permit the continued operation of equipment and systems affecting the company’s business operations to a substantial degree.
• Determines, monitors, and administers maintenance and operation work schedules to meet plant productivity needs.
• Develops and implements work schedules in coordination with plant management and project managers after evaluating maintenance, operations, and engineering needs.
• Exercises discretion and independent judgment based on plant operations, maintenance needs, resources, and timing considerations.
• Involved in planning long- and short-term business objectives involving maintenance, repair, and replacement of equipment.
• Manages long lead time items.
• Provides consultation and expert advice to management team on managing resources and material.
• Investigates and resolves maintenance issues.
• Assesses priority of maintenance requests (both long- and short-term), determining job requirements, and determining appropriate staffing resources.
• Integrates plant needs with maintenance/operation resources in developing detailed work schedules and labor hour studies.
• Formulates maintenance plans, provides budgetary information, material requirement list, budget tracking tools, and develops metrics to demonstrate performance and drive improvements of maintenance operations.
• Administers schedule changes due to backlogs, design changes, and material or labor shortages.
• Provides strategic analysis based on evaluating possible repairs and deciding whether equipment needs to be modified or replaced.
• Confirms that all documentation, including all MOC’s, Job Plans, Safety work plans, etc. are complete so work can proceed.
• Manages inventory, inventory warehouse counts, and works to ensure obsolete equipment is remediated at a minimum on an annual basis.
• Administers maintenance program with particular emphasis on establishing job plans to effect operation/maintenance performance and efficiencies.
• Manages outage readiness check lists for required planning periods.
• Serves as a SME and conducts inspection work.
• Makes decisions concerning complex issues regarding project components and tasks.
• Ability to create job and Safe Work Plans.
• Leads, researches, prepares, plans and schedules exercising discretion in formulating solutions using independent decision-making.
• Collaborates with operations on hazard isolation and critical component requirements.
• Makes decisions requiring exercise of discretion and independent judgment regarding matters of significance ranging from moderate to complex maintenance and operations planning issues.
• Directs senior professional in selection of methods, techniques, and analytical approaches.
• Develops and maintains planning for long and short-term business objectives, develops maintenance reports, standards, metrics and policies.
• Manages equipment lead times.
• Administers maintenance planning based on general plant and operations policies with little or no day-to-day direction.
• Administers work of professionals, technicians, and others both inside and outside of own department.
• Work is primarily office or non-manual work related to the plant maintenance operations.
• Must compare and evaluate possible courses of action and make a decision after various possibilities have been considered.
• Has authority to wave or deviate from established policies and procedures in exceptional circumstances.
• Advises management on best policies and practices for coordinating resources to achieve maintenance goal and regularly keeps management abreast on actionable solutions to planning issues.
• Collaborate and solve problems – works with others to resolve significant issues in the plant, clarifies or interprets complex information, provide initial screening/remediation.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.
• Calpine is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior