Talen Energy Corp

Discipline Scheduler

Talen Energy Corp$75K — $95K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business, or related field; experience may substitute for degree.
  • 3+ years in outage planning or related roles in nuclear or similarly regulated environments.
  • Solid understanding of nuclear operations, outage execution, and schedule governance.
  • Knowledgeable in Technical Specifications and ALARA considerations.
  • Proficient in Primavera P6 for schedule development and analysis.
  • Familiar with plant work management systems like NIMS.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and update detailed resource-loaded schedules for outage and online activities.
  • Integrate varied work types into executable schedules aligned with station priorities.
  • Build and maintain detailed scheduling components in Primavera P6 or approved tools.
  • Coordinate with various departments to ensure schedule accuracy and alignment.
  • Review work orders and estimates to support schedule readiness.
  • Identify and recommend solutions for schedule conflicts and resource constraints.
  • Track and communicate schedule restraints impacting execution.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for continuous improvement and participation in outage critiques.
  • Involvement in decision-making during critical outage periods.
  • Potential for supporting emergency response duties during outages.
Full Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Develop, maintain, and update detailed logic-tied, resource-loaded schedules for assigned outage and online work activities.
  • Integrate surveillance, preventive, repetitive, corrective, elective, and modification-related work into executable schedules consistent with approved scope and station priorities.
  • Build and maintain schedule logic, work windows, milestones, constraints, and activity sequencing in Primavera P6 or other approved scheduling tools.
  • Coordinate with planners, engineers, maintenance, operations, projects, radiation protection, supply chain, and vendor representatives to ensure schedule accuracy and cross-functional alignment.
  • Review work orders, task lists, durations, manpower estimates, prerequisites, and implementation assumptions to support schedule credibility and execution readiness.
  • Validate and maintain resource loading for assigned schedules and support development of manpower curves, shift strategies, and work execution assumptions.
  • Identify schedule conflicts, interface risks, bottlenecks, and resource constraints; elevate concerns and recommend solutions to support efficient execution.
  • Track and communicate known schedule restraints, including material, engineering, procedure, walkdown, vendor, clearance, approval, and field condition impacts.
  • Support development and maintenance of outage restraint lists, milestone schedules, readiness trackers, and other schedule governance tools for assigned disciplines.
  • Update schedules during outage execution to reflect actual work progress, emergent scope, revised priorities, changes in logic, and updated resource needs.
  • Support daily and shiftly schedule turnover by documenting changes, communicating impacts, and maintaining current schedule status for station stakeholders.
  • Perform schedule analysis to support path management, recovery planning, contingency development, and decision-making during outage and non-outage periods.
  • Support integrated schedule reviews, readiness reviews, risk reviews, outage status meetings, and other assigned scheduling forums.
  • Ensure assigned schedules reflect Technical Specification constraints, shutdown risk expectations, ALARA considerations, training and qualification needs, and station scheduling standards.
  • Participate in outage critiques, self-assessments, corrective action reviews, and lessons learned activities to support continuous improvement.
  • Perform additional duties as assigned, including Emergency Response Organization and execution assignments for which qualified.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Science, Business, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in outage planning, outage scheduling, work management, project controls, maintenance planning, or a similar role in nuclear generation or a comparably regulated heavy industrial environment.
  • Working knowledge of nuclear plant operations, outage execution, work management processes, and schedule governance.
  • Working knowledge of Technical Specifications, shutdown risk management, ALARA considerations, and station procedures applicable to outage and online schedule development.
  • Proficiency with Primavera P6, including development and maintenance of logic-tied schedules, schedule analysis, schedule updating, and reporting.
  • Working knowledge of plant work management systems such as NIMS or equivalent computerized maintenance/work management platforms.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, analytical and problem-solving ability, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to support extended hours during outage execution and perform emergency response duties as qualified and assigned.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience supporting refueling, forced, or maintenance outages in a commercial nuclear generating station.
  • Experience updating integrated schedules during outage execution and supporting emergent work integration, schedule recovery, and contingency planning.
  • Experience coordinating schedule interfaces with maintenance, engineering, operations, projects, vendors, and outage support organizations.
  • Plant-specific qualification, certification, or equivalent demonstrated nuclear operations, maintenance, planning, or scheduling experience.

Note: You will have an opportunity to add attachments to your application. Please use this opportunity to upload your resume, cover letter, and any relevant documents .

About Talen Energy Corp

Talen Energy is an American power generation and transmission company. The company was formed in 2015 as a spin-off from PPL Corporation and Riverstone Holdings. Talen Energy owns and operates power plants in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, and Montana. The company also provides energy management services to commercial and industrial customers. Talen Energy is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Learn more about Talen Energy Corp
Size
2,200 employees
Industry
Founded
2000

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