Manager-Planning & Scheduling Power Generation

Tallgrass•Cheyenne, WY

About The Position

The Planning & Scheduling Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance planning, scheduling, and outage coordination activities at the Tallgrass Cheyenne Energy Center-an off-grid, large-scale AI-dedicated critical power, multi‑unit generation campus that is planned to produce approximately 2.5 GW of initial capacity with expansion capability up to 10 GW from a fleet of simple‑cycle gas turbines and combined‑cycle gas turbine (CCGT) technologies. This role ensures that maintenance work is effectively scoped, planned, scheduled, and executed to support operational reliability, regulatory compliance, and long-term asset health across a multi‑unit generation facility. The Planning & Scheduling Manager owns rework reduction through planning quality , with direct accountability for clear work scopes, accurate and complete job plans, correct material identification, realistic labor and duration estimates, and outage readiness. This role establishes planning standards that enable right‑the‑first‑time execution and reliable schedule performance during both routine maintenance and major outages. Performance is measured through defined work management KPIs, including but not limited to , rework rate attributable to planning deficiencies, schedule adherence (weekly and outage), PM/PdM plan accuracy, first‑pass yield of planning evolutions, and planning backlog health . The Planning & Scheduling Manager uses KPI trends and Human Performance insights to continuously improve planning effectiveness, execution readiness, and schedule realism. The Planning and Scheduling Manager establishes and sustains Human Performance (HP) principles and Tallgrass culture expectations across all plant planning and scheduling disciplines. The manager ensures HP principles and Tallgrass values are integrated into all planning, scheduling, and outage coordination activities. The role ensures job plans and schedules account for task complexity, critical steps, human‑machine interfaces, error precursors, and appropriate time and resource allocation to reduce execution risk. The manager sets a culture to ensure job close out includes execution feedback, using lessons learned to improve planning standards, documentation quality, and work package consistency for reliable and repeatable execution. The Planning & Scheduling Manager works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, Reliability Engineering, Supply Chain, EHS, and the O&M Contractor to meet Tallgrass Energy’s safety, regulatory, environmental, and mission‑critical data center commercial objectives. The role requires extensive experience with IBM Maximo, Primavera P6, and Autodesk tools within a thermal power generation environment.

Requirements

7–10+ years of maintenance planning and scheduling experience in a large-scale thermal power GT and CCGT generation environment.
Expert proficiency with IBM Maximo, Primavera P6, and Autodesk tools.
Strong understanding of gas turbine, HRSG, steam turbine, generator, and balance‑of‑plant systems.
Proven experience developing and managing major turbine outage plans.
Demonstrated leadership experience with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a large (1+ GW) or multi‑unit generating station.
Professional certifications such as PMP, CMRP, or CPM.
Knowledge of ISO‑based asset management programs.
Experience enhancing CMMS workflows and planning processes.

Responsibilities

Planning & Scheduling Leadership
Develop, coordinate, and optimize daily, weekly, and long-term maintenance schedules for simple-cycle and CCGT units.
Manage work order planning within IBM Maximo, ensuring accurate job plans, labor forecasts, and material requirements.
Maintain the site’s Primavera P6 master schedule, including outage planning, resource loading, and critical-path analysis.
Coordinate equipment outages with Operations to align with production goals and reliability objectives.
Oversee engineering drawing workflows using Autodesk tools, including updates, revisions, and as-built documentation.
Lead integrated planning and scheduling for combined‑cycle maintenance activities across gas turbines, HRSGs, steam turbines, and balance‑of‑plant systems.
Develop outage plans that align gas turbine inspections with HRSG and steam turbine maintenance to optimize outage duration and execution efficiency.
Ensure job plans and schedules account for combined‑cycle constraints, including cooldown times, steam system readiness, and startup sequencing.
Coordinate long‑range maintenance plans considering cycling duty, startup frequency, and combined-cycle degradation mechanisms.
Ensure Primavera P6 schedules and Maximo job plans reflect integrated combined‑cycle work scopes, resource loading, and critical‑path activities.
Drive rework reduction by improving planning quality for combined‑cycle maintenance tasks with high execution risk.
Asset Management & Reliability
Build, optimize, and maintain preventive and predictive maintenance programs for plant equipment.
Collaborate with reliability engineering to integrate condition-monitoring data, failure analysis, and performance insights into maintenance planning.
Drive consistency and standardization in job plans, asset hierarchies, and CMMS workflows.
Outage Planning & Execution
Lead all aspects of outage planning, including combustion inspections, hot gas path inspections, and major turbine overhauls.
Create detailed outage schedules in Primavera P6 with contractor integration, resource leveling, and milestone tracking.
Coordinate pre-outage readiness reviews, material staging, contractor mobilization, and onsite execution tracking.
Leadership & Collaboration
Lead and develop a team of planners, schedulers, and document control personnel.
Facilitate multi‑department scheduling meetings to ensure alignment across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Supply Chain.
Provide regular reporting on maintenance backlogs, schedule compliance, KPIs, and resource utilization.
Participate in continuous improvement initiatives aligned with Tallgrass Energy’s asset management strategy.