Wind Turbine Job Planner

DTE Energy•Breckenridge, MI

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Wind Turbine Job Planner plans and prepares work orders for multi-week schedules covering groups involved in equipment outages, corrective and preventive maintenance, and capital and operating/maintenance modifications. The role works with internal resources, vendors, and contractors to develop and execute work packages that maximize efficiency and minimize costs. It uses systems including Maximo, SAP, Documentum, EBS, scheduling software, and Office 365 to sequence work orders and track completion. The position requires coordination, planning, scheduling, and estimating skills to ensure maintenance is performed efficiently and on time, with verifiable metrics. This is an individual-contributor role with no direct reports. The role is hybrid, with an established schedule of in-person work at an assigned location; remote work is expected to be performed from the employee’s primary residence, subject to company guidelines. The role also requires availability for a primary assignment supporting DTE emergency response to storms or other events affecting customer service.

Requirements

One of the following education and experience pathways: an associate’s degree in an engineering discipline, or completion of two years of a four-year accredited engineering program, and two years of mechanical, electrical, or instrument experience working on equipment typically found at an electric or gas utility; a high school diploma and three years of estimating, scheduling, and planning experience in a power plant, electric utility, heavy industrial, or heavy construction setting; or a high school diploma and seven years of experience working on equipment typically found in a power generating station, electric utility, heavy industrial, or heavy construction setting in a skilled trade or certified operating position.
Strong organizational skills.
Ability to act independently and accept new responsibilities.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to interpret P&IDs, blueprints, drawings, schematics, measuring devices, and rigging and lifting equipment.
Estimating skills based on reasonable, critical, and documented assumptions that reflect appropriate crew productivity.
Ability to coordinate information from various sources and work with multiple customers to complete tasks.
Problem-solving skills using a formal methodology.
Knowledge of cost analysis regarding work orders.
Ability to understand the business implications of decisions.
Ability to contribute to process improvement and act as a change agent.
Ability to initiate new ideas and approaches and challenge prevailing practices with reasonable, sound alternatives.
Availability to support emergency response assignments for storms or other events affecting customer service.

Nice To Haves

Prior supervisory experience and/or experience working as a technician on wind or solar projects.
Experience developing work scope schedules.
Knowledge of LOTO or hazardous energy control and its connection to work management.
Prior experience working in Maximo.

Responsibilities

Identify root causes of problems and establish work scope for daily and project work.
Develop accurate time and resource estimates that provide appropriate levels of productivity.
Develop step-by-step job plans for completing work scope efficiently.
Validate resource and job plan estimates against actuals to improve Maximo data.
Create or support complete multi-week schedules, including milestone dates for major projects.
Build complete work packages, including safety notices, validated through walk-downs.
Manage backlog consolidation requests.
Complete purchasing and procurement tasks as necessary.
Develop, maintain, and support management of preventive maintenance work.
Recommend effective use of internal and external resources, including use of data analytics.
Use appropriate tools to create, plan, and execute work, including Maximo, Documentum, scheduling software, and Office 365.
Maintain effective daily interactions with engineering, project management, job supervisors, specialty vendors, and contractors.
Provide oversight of employees and contractors as needed.
Support DTE emergency response to storms or other events affecting customer service.