Outage & Material Planner

AES Puerto Rico•Guayama, PR

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The primary responsibility is to assist and work with the maintenance team to coordinate AES Puerto Rico outages in the Guayama power plant, while maintaining system integrity and reliability. The Outage Coordinator participates in cross functional project teams providing guidance to optimize and prioritize outages, avoid conflicting outages, identify bulk electric system constraints and provide information to better plan outage requirements. This position also works with the Safety team to ensure compliance with safety standards and policies.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
1–3 years of experience in Planning and/or Maintenance.
Professional Engineer (PE) License or equivalent professional certification
OSHA Certification.
Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) Certification.
Intermediate to Advanced English proficiency.

Nice To Haves

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification issued by the Project Management Institute (PMI)

Responsibilities

Coordinates all planned transmission, generation and interconnection system maintenance and construction projects/outages with both internal and external entities.
Collaborates across multiple groups and departments as necessary to resolve operational and outage planning issues.
Looks for opportunities to combine outages to optimize system availability, reliability, safety and economy.
Communicates outage information in accordance to Standards and Procedures.
Maintains a comprehensive 5-year outage plan/schedule.
Develops, maintains and presents outage management data analysis tools and key performance indicators.
Create and manage maintenance plans for both routine and maintenance activities.
Create requisitions for stock items, material and services related to routine, major maintenance and CapEx tasks.
Participate in CapEx Committee meetings review and support in providing updates of investments.
Leads the annual review and improvement of outage management roles and responsibilities.
Leads the development of tools to increase the efficiency of outage planning, scheduling, reporting and data entry.
Prepare the purchase requirements related to Opex budget for plant maintenance, in accordance with the specifications of the internal customer and assign them to the corresponding work order for subsequent management.
Creation of work orders for capital investments and requirements for services or parts, in accordance with the requirements of the internal client.
Estimation of costs of the activities considered in the project portfolio, as well as of the activities in the reconditioning of equipment of high importance in the plant.
Control of the budget allocated to capital projects, major or annual maintenance (whether Opex or Capex), to estimate the costs of planning the activities.
Participates in emergency response efforts as needed.
Performs other duties as assigned.