Nuclear Fleet Outage Consultant

Dominion Energy•Waterford, SC

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Dominion Energy is seeking a Nuclear Fleet Outage Consultant to improve outage performance across its fleet of four nuclear power stations. The goal is to achieve top-tier outage performance within the industry by identifying and implementing best practices, providing consistent leadership, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. The selected candidate will influence outage performance, align partners, resources, and processes, and drive standardization. While Glen Allen, VA is the preferred location, the role can also be based at nuclear power stations in Jenkinsville, SC; Mineral, VA; Surry, VA; or Waterford, CT. The position requires building trusting partnerships with stakeholders, including outage groups at each power station, through effective communication.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and seven (7) or more years of experience directly related to nuclear power plant outage preparation, management and execution, or
Associate's degree and nine (9) or more years of experience directly related to nuclear power plant outage preparation, management and execution, or
High School diploma/GED and eleven (11) or more years of experience directly related to nuclear power plant outage preparation, management and execution.
Effective written and verbal communications skills.

Nice To Haves

Detailed knowledge of outage preparation, management, and execution.
Detailed knowledge of P6 and a demonstrated track record scheduling refueling outages preferred.
Demonstrated meeting leadership skills.
Excellent communication skills and demonstrated experience effectively interacting with various levels of employees, senior management, and other utility management.
Ability to create meeting agendas, outage readiness, critique and benchmarking reports.
Ability to influence and be persuasive without formal authority.
Adept at promoting collaboration.
Ability to coach/mentor others.
Effective process improvement skills.
Proven ability to prepare and present information and data in variety of formats.
Excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize work of self and others.
Demonstrated high standards for continuous improvement of outage work processes.
Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) license or certificate.

Responsibilities

Provide governance and oversight for Fleet outage planning and execution.
Create and own the fleet outage readiness review process.
Coordinate a periodic fleet outage review board that meets periodically and includes senior management (Senior VP, site VPs, VP Engineering) and corporate outage director. This board meets for corporate outage readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and establishes the outage long range plan.
Assist in stations outage readiness.
Conduct outage readiness reviews and assessments, with standard review items for Fleet Outage Scope Review (at T-8 months prior to an outage), Fleet Outage Readiness Review (T-3), and Fleet Outage Executive or Review Board Challenge (T-2).
Ensure readiness reviews are challenging and determine readiness.
Enforce process discipline.
Monitor outage milestones for proper closure, adherence and recovery process.
Leading/directing teams to adhere to the outage milestone process.
Validate scope selection.
Interface with the Preventive Maintenance (PM) program owners to obtain consistency in the Fleet for outage PM scope.
Oversee outage management and execution.
Participate in T+1 month critiques for the stations and Fleet rollups.
Monitor overall outage improvement critiques to ensure consistency and to ensure station and Fleet improvements are pursued.
Promote Fleet incorporation of industry best outage practices and lessons learned.
Maintain and enhance the Fleet outage documents with the Outage working group of outage coordinators.
Drive Fleet standardization.
Assist station Outage Coordinators with tactical issues as they are identified in the Fleet.