Maintenance Specialist IV

Energy Northwest • Richland, WA

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About The Position

GENERAL SUMMARY Provide technical leadership and support to the Maintenance management team. Independently develop and execute plans and provide direction to others as needed in support of department initiatives, goals and activities. Provide accountability and leadership as a member of the Maintenance management team. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES This position provides direct support to both internal and external customers through the use of advanced knowledge of maintenance support tasks. These tasks include, but are not limited to: Training, Outage Coordination, Foreign Material Exclusion Coordination, Budget Tracking and Preventative Maintenance Coordination. • Conduct tasks as assigned, in multiple areas of maintenance support. • Lead specialty programs as assigned. Specialty programs may include model optimization, leakage reduction, and rework programs. • Implement department performance reporting and indicators to monitor and track department goals, business objectives and program progress as assigned. • Track trends and implement techniques or programs to improve maintenance’s human performance event rate. Prepare event investigations as required. • Disposition of Action Request Condition Reports (AR-CR) and provide support with corrective actions to prevent recurrence. Represent the maintenance department at the Condition Report Review Group (CRG) in accordance with SWP-CAP-06. • Maintain the maintenance manpower schedule. This includes scheduling overtime for bargaining unit and management personnel. Support other initiatives: • Develop and implement procedure revisions as assigned. • Lead or support self-assessments as requested. • Perform classroom observations, OJT/OJE observations and field observations looking for improvements in training and work control processes. • Provide constructive input and support to the PM program as needed. • Provide recommendations to maintenance management as necessary. • Develop job aids and design non-training performance improvement interventions (job standards, feedback mechanisms, process flow, etc.). • Evaluate operating experience associated with human performance behaviors for applicability to maintenance and/or the station and recommend corrective actions. • Identify and develop enhancements to the station’s observation program. Interface with users of the station’s observation program log to ensure overall effectiveness. • Troubleshoot problems and test problem fixes associated with the station’s observation program as needed. • Identify and develop process improvement initiatives. • Represent the maintenance department with outside agencies and internal organizations, such as INPO, NRC, USA and outside utilities. • Participate as a maintenance point of contact for INPO assist visits, NRC inspections and utility benchmarking. May be required to support Emergency Response and Outage positions and/or provide concentrated support in one or more areas of the maintenance department based on business needs.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university and six years of experience in operations, maintenance, facilities, engineering, or other relevant technical environment.
• OR An associate’s degree from an accredited college or university and eight years of experience in operations, maintenance, facilities, engineering, or other relevant technical environment.
• OR A high school diploma or GED and ten years of experience in operations, maintenance, facilities, engineering, or other relevant technical environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct tasks as assigned, in multiple areas of maintenance support.
• Lead specialty programs as assigned. Specialty programs may include model optimization, leakage reduction, and rework programs.
• Implement department performance reporting and indicators to monitor and track department goals, business objectives and program progress as assigned.
• Track trends and implement techniques or programs to improve maintenance’s human performance event rate. Prepare event investigations as required.
• Disposition of Action Request Condition Reports (AR-CR) and provide support with corrective actions to prevent recurrence. Represent the maintenance department at the Condition Report Review Group (CRG) in accordance with SWP-CAP-06.
• Maintain the maintenance manpower schedule. This includes scheduling overtime for bargaining unit and management personnel.
• Develop and implement procedure revisions as assigned.
• Lead or support self-assessments as requested.
• Perform classroom observations, OJT/OJE observations and field observations looking for improvements in training and work control processes.
• Provide constructive input and support to the PM program as needed.
• Provide recommendations to maintenance management as necessary.
• Develop job aids and design non-training performance improvement interventions (job standards, feedback mechanisms, process flow, etc.).
• Evaluate operating experience associated with human performance behaviors for applicability to maintenance and/or the station and recommend corrective actions.
• Identify and develop enhancements to the station’s observation program. Interface with users of the station’s observation program log to ensure overall effectiveness.
• Troubleshoot problems and test problem fixes associated with the station’s observation program as needed.
• Identify and develop process improvement initiatives.
• Represent the maintenance department with outside agencies and internal organizations, such as INPO, NRC, USA and outside utilities.
• Participate as a maintenance point of contact for INPO assist visits, NRC inspections and utility benchmarking.
• May be required to support Emergency Response and Outage positions and/or provide concentrated support in one or more areas of the maintenance department based on business needs.

Benefits

• Energy Northwest (EN) provides a phenomenal benefits package.
• Washington State also has no state income tax, and the Tri-Cities provides a cost-of-living lower than the national average.
• EN offers 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.
• EN also offers multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage.
• Other voluntary benefits may include 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, and more!
• Qualifying employees will typically start a personal time accrual rate of 160 hours per year and EN provides nine paid holidays throughout the Calander year; personal time accruals grow significantly at various service intervals.

What This Job Offers

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