Supervisor Renewable Maintenance

NiSource•Princeton, IN

16h•Onsite

About The Position

This role directs and manages renewable facility maintenance and on-site operations activities to optimize availability, reliability, and generation output across various renewable or storage technologies such as solar photovoltaic, wind, hydroelectric, and bulk energy storage systems. The Supervisor oversees safety, front line workers, contractors, compliance, and cost for direct site activities. Key responsibilities include supervising a team of union front line workers performing preventative and corrective maintenance, ensuring compliance with all applicable safety and environmental regulations (OHSA, NERC, NFPA, federal, state), and maintaining a safe work environment through enforcement of company standards and pre-job safety briefs. The position involves coordinating with other departments for repair strategies and maintenance schedules, assigning maintenance activities, managing resources, and administering employee guidelines and collective bargaining agreements. The supervisor is also responsible for contractor qualification and compliance, performance reviews, budget development, monitoring system performance, providing operational reports, and approving invoices. This role requires controlling department expenses, forecasting project costs, and assuming on-call responsibilities for emergency calls outside of normal work hours. Additionally, the supervisor trains and evaluates employees, assists in troubleshooting abnormal operating conditions, and performs safety observations. Travel to other NIPSCO generation facilities, training/conferences, and vendor surveillance shop visits may be required.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent
4+ years of experience in Maintenance or other related engineering discipline obtained in power plant, industrial process, or military service
4+ years of experience supervising in a union environment with familiarity of working with a collectively bargained agreement.
Understanding and commitment to maintaining safe work practices and safety of direct reports.
Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and/or instrumentation maintenance procedures and work practices
Able to effectively manage several projects or technologies at one time across multiple sites
Must be able to work on-call and answer and respond to phone calls during non-business hours.
Understanding of the elements of the maintenance management process.
Able to effectively communicate through a variety of media with supervisors, peers, subordinates, and external support teams.
Familiarity with renewable assets and bulk energy storage technologies.
Familiar with other maintenance disciplines and understands relationship between equipment mechanical, electrical and controls.
Familiarity with SCADA-based monitoring and troubleshooting of operating equipment.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree in related discipline
Experience with leading and coordinating a union work force
Experience or formal training in power plant or industrial operating departments, project management, and maintenance management practices.

Responsibilities

Supervise a team of union front line workers performing preventative and corrective maintenance on plant systems and equipment.
Ensures all OHSA, NERC, NFPA, federal, state, and other applicable codes and regulations are followed during the design, construction, repair, and operation of equipment.
Maintain a safe work environment across all sites by enforcing company safety standard and any contractor safety programs.
Conduct pre-job safety briefs for all assigned work.
Inform employees of safety rules and regulations and consistently enforce them.
Verify all work performed is done in compliance with environmental permits and procedures.
Emphasize and ensure the commitment to performing all work in compliance within environmental procedures with all crafts and contractors.
Investigate, document, and report safety and environmental incidents in accordance with company and regulatory requirements.
Coordinate with other departments (internal/external) to develop effective repair strategies and maintenance schedules.
Assign scheduled and emergency maintenance activities to personnel within the department.
Determine and manage when additional resources, overtime or contracted services are required.
Administer the Employee Productivity Guidelines, Code of Conduct, and the collective bargaining agreement.
Ensure all contractors are properly qualified, registered, and compliant with contractual and company requirements.
Inform employees of work performance standards and expectations.
Perform employee performance reviews for applicable employees aligned with specified timelines.
Develop budget requests for plant equipment, systems maintenance, and capital improvements.
Submit initiatives that define the project purpose, scope, estimated cost, and benefits.
Follow through with implementation of approved projects.
Monitor module, inverter, tracking systems, balance-of-plant, and/or SCADA performance; identify abnormal conditions and coordinate corrective actions.
Provide weekly and monthly operations, performance, and compliance reporting for assigned facilities.
Review, validate, and approve contractor invoices, service reports, and supporting documentation to ensure accuracy, compliance, and alignment with budgeted expectations.
Utilizing the company’s Work Management System and Cost Control System, control and track department expenses to operate within budget.
Report expenses on a pre-determined basis.
Forecast the cost at completion for jobs in progress or planned future projects.
Assumes standby or on-call responsibilities on a rotating basis or other pre-established basis.
Responds to emergency calls outside of his or her normal work schedule on a regular basis.
Trains and evaluates employees in the proper use of tools, machinery, maintenance procedures and practices, and safe work practices.
Assist operating departments in monitoring equipment and troubleshooting abnormal operating conditions.
Determine the appropriate maintenance scope and timing of repairs.
Perform documented safety observations for operations and maintenance work.
Responsibilities may require travel to other NIPSCO generation facilities, training/conferences, and vendor surveillance shop visits.