Outage Manager – Southeast

FieldCore

2d•$102,500 - $172,100

About The Position

The Outage Manager prepares, plans, leads execution, and closes out complex planned and emergent outage events for gas turbine, steam turbine, and generator agreements, while supporting FieldCore’s business strategy for field fulfilment excellence. This focal role drives consistent outage planning and execution and adoption of best practices and lessons learned. The manager leads complex outages for assigned countries or locations wherever possible to help achieve target utilization levels. The ideal candidate will live within the Southeast region. The role involves managing outage event lifecycles from commercial activities and planning through execution, closeout, and financial reconciliation. The manager leads onsite execution with large teams, tracks costs and productivity, manages execution risks, develops project quotations, supports customer operations and technical communications, and ensures outage documentation and labor, tooling, and vendor planning are handled appropriately. The position requires travel and availability for holidays, weekends, and overtime as required by field assignments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering, or equivalent experience of 4 years in the power generation industry.
At least 8 years of applicable experience and demonstrated success or knowledge in gas or steam turbine or generator maintenance, depending on business needs.
At least 3 years of specialized or industry experience in gas or steam turbine, generator, and auxiliary system outage planning and execution.
English proficiency.
Willingness and ability to work holidays, weekends, and overtime as required by field assignments.
Ability to travel.

Nice To Haves

Strong project management and planning skills; Primavera scheduling tool experience preferred.
PC proficiency and experience with web applications, including advanced Excel skills.
Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization and external customers.
Demonstrated verbal and written communication and influencing skills.
Strong technical and maintenance knowledge of gas and steam turbines and generators.
Strong team leadership in dynamic, energetic, and complex customer-site environments.
Ability to work under high pressure and time constraints while remaining committed and process-oriented.
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively in a cross-functional team.
Ability to influence stakeholders to deliver customer and business needs.
FEP graduate.

Responsibilities

Engage with internal and external customers throughout commercial, planning, execution, closeout, and financial reconciliation phases of event management.
Manage complex planned, emergent, and upgrade outage preparation from start to finish, including schedule development, labor, tooling and cost planning, customer meetings, mobilization planning, JCE execution, and closeout.
Own onsite execution as site lead with large teams during assigned outages and ensure Fulfilment-5 goals and requirements are met.
Track job costs and productivity, manage execution risk/FMEA, and address NU/Service warranty matters.
Improve on-time delivery, outage cost, productivity, and implementation; maintain accurate tracking files and control man-hour cost and pacing.
Lead project quotation development, including work scope, site condition checks, and preliminary safety and risk analysis to identify issues and minimize site execution cost impacts.
Support customer operations teams during shutdown, startup, running, and performance testing of turbine, generator, and auxiliary systems.
Ensure execution documentation is prepared, used, reviewed, stored, and delivered, including Field Procedures, Quality Procedures, EHS, and Customer Outage Reports.
Use web systems applications to allocate, prepare, plan, and forecast labor and tooling, and manage vendors.
Respond promptly to forced outages and emergencies, attend site when needed, and investigate or escalate issues to restore units to operating condition in a timely manner.
Support the Customer Service Leader with technical communication to customer staff during outage execution.
Improve and optimize existing processes and identify simplification opportunities.
Perform other duties as assigned to advance FieldCore’s vision and align with organizational core values.