Outage Manager - Southeast

FieldCore

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Outage Manager is responsible for preparation, planning, leading execution, and close out of complex planned/emergent Outage events for gas turbine, steam turbine and generator agreements while supporting the development of the business strategy for field fulfilment excellence in FieldCore. The Outage Manager is a focal role, with accountability for driving consistent outage planning and execution, and adoption of best practices and lessons learned. Will lead complex outages for their assigned Country/Countries or location(s) wherever possible, given the need to achieve target utilization levels.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Science/engineering or equivalent 4 years of experience in power generation industry.
8+ years applicable experience and demonstrated success/knowledge on gas/steam turbine or generator maintenance (depending on needs)
3+ years of specialized/industry experience of gas/steam turbine generator & auxiliary system outage planning and execution.
English proficiency required
Co-location in the territory being supported within the West sub-region of the US (with particular focus in Washington and Oregon)

Nice To Haves

Strong Project Management and planning skills (Primavera scheduling tool preferred)
PC proficiency, web applications including advanced Excel skills
Able to interface effectively with all levels of the organization and external customers
Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills and influencing skill
Strong technical and maintenance knowledge of gas/steam turbines and generators
Strong team leader in dynamic, energetic and complex customer site environments
Ability to work under high pressure and constraint time, committed and process oriented
Ability to work multiple project simultaneously and effectively in a cross-functional team
Ability to influence stakeholders to deliver customer and business needs
FEP graduate

Responsibilities

Engage and interact with customers (both internal and external) throughout all phases of event management project lifecycles which includes commercial, planning, execution, closeout, and financial reconciliation
Manage complex outage event preparation (Planned/Emergent/Upgrade) from start to finish, including outage schedule development, TFA/craft labor/tooling/cost planning, customer management - pre/post outage meetings, mobilization planning, JCE execution, and event close out
Own onsite execution (site lead) with large teams during assigned outages, ensuring Fulfilment-5 goals and requirements are met.
Manage on job cost tracking, productivity, while managing execution risk/FMEA and any NU/Service warranty
Drive improvement of on-time delivery, outage cost and productivity, implementation, effectively update and maintain accurate tracking files, control man hour cost and pacing
Lead project quotation development including work scope, site condition check, preliminary safety and risk analysis to identify potential issues or obstacles and to minimize cost impact for site execution
Support customer operations team during shut-down, start-up, running and performance testing of turbine, generator and auxiliary systems
Ensure proper execution documentation is prepared, used, reviewed, stored and delivered including, Field Procedures, Quality Procedures, EHS, and Customer Outage Reports
Work with web systems applications for proper allocation, preparation, planning and forecasting of labor, tooling, vendor management
Respond to forced outages/emergency promptly, be on site when needed, investigate/escalate site issues to restore the units to operating conditions in a timely manner
Support Customer Service Leader on technical communication to customer staff during outage execution
Actively work to improve and optimize existing processes and look for simplification opportunities
Ability and willingness to work holidays, weekends and overtime as required by field assignments
Travel will be required
May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values.