Regional Scheduler

Southern Company • Atlanta, GA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

This position will function as part of the Performance & Reliability Group within Fossil & Hydro Fleet Maintenance and Reliability, residing within the region being supported (South Georgia). This position will serve as a Planned Outage scheduling subject matter expert for Primavera scheduling activities. They will provide field support with building and maintaining outage schedules, and optimizing the usage of outage resources.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability in generation outage scheduling activities within Primavera applications. Must be fully proficient in leveling resources, daily updates, building sequence of events, and identifying critical path activities.
• Significant plant maintenance experience, preferably in both maintenance and planning required. Knowledgeable of generating plant technology, maintenance, and operations related to major outage and project operations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to build and sustain relationships; strong interpersonal skills capable of interacting with various team members (supervision, contractors, vendors, and staff peers).
• Strong computer skills and expertise in the usage of Excel, Access, Microsoft Word, etc.
• Must be available for 24-hour call-out.

Nice To Haves

• System owner or team leader experience is preferred.
• Diverse experience with other utilities, construction, or other industries beneficial.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, or a 2-year or 4-year Technical Degree is preferred, however appropriate experience may be considered in lieu of a degree

Responsibilities

• Build/develop/track Level 4 Planned outage schedules that adhere to the Fleet Minimum Scheduling Standards.
• Maintain accurate and timely communications with plant functional teams. Ability to work effectively across operating companies, particularly with planning resources from individual facilities.
• Drive value through optimum usage of resources. Prioritize plant work for resource leveling of crafts, minimizing baseline staffing requirements.
• Coordination, as needed in planned outages, to analyze delays and impacts; help develop recovery schedules.
• Serve as regional expert on Primavera P6 scheduling and its capabilities. Share best practices/lessons learned across the Fleet.
• Facilitate retail fleet plant scheduling knowledge.
• Lead scheduling activities on Outage Readiness Reviews.

Benefits

• competitive base salary
• annual incentive awards for eligible employees
• health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being
• limited relocation assistance is available if the selected candidate currently resides outside the area.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree