NextEra Energy

Lead Project Manager

NextEra Energy • $110K — $130K *
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418In-Person
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of maintenance and outage planning experience in power generation or heavy industrial environments, preferably fossil plants
  • Strong proficiency in CMMS/EAM tools (e.g., SAP, Maximo) and work management processes
  • Proven ability to plan complex, multi-craft jobs and manage vendor/OEM coordination
  • Solid grasp of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation work within fossil plant systems
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to manage multiple stakeholders effectively

Responsibilities

  • Create and maintain job plans for fossil and RNG sites
  • Lead outage planning for RNG sites, ensuring readiness
  • Support planners by removing barriers to planning progress
  • Identify major vendor work that requires bidding early in the process
  • Participate in vendor walkdowns to ensure process consistency
  • Lead outage planning cycles, ensuring all resources are in place
  • Coach planners on best practices and use of CMMS/EAM tools

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance available
  • Comprehensive employee benefits package including support for eligible family members
  • Focus on employee wellness and continuous improvement initiatives
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 96645

Position Specific Description

Role summary: Lead planning excellence across PGD fossil generating and RNG plants. Will drive planning deliverables as per the Major Maintenance Process including but not limited to material readiness, resource coordination, and job package readiness.

Key responsibilities:
  • Creation and Maintaining Job Plans for Fossil and RNG Sites
  • Outage Planning for RNG Sites
  • Support planners by providing an appropriate level of decision making to remove barriers to Planning progress such as but not limited to accounting issues, clarity on PM sequences, etc.
  • Ensure that all major vendors work that requires bidding are identified early so that ISC can lead the bidding process
  • Participation in vendor walkdowns and ensure consistency
  • Outage planning and readiness: Lead outage planning cycles (milestones, gates, critical path, pre-outage readiness reviews), ensure materials, tooling, vendors, and logistics are in place
  • Coach planners on planning best practices and use of CMMS/EAM tools.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • 5+ years maintenance planning, outage planning experience in power generation or heavy industrial environments; fossil plant experience preferred
  • Strong CMMS/EAM proficiency (e.g., SAP, Maximo or equivalent) and work management processes
  • Demonstrated ability to plan complex, multi-craft jobs and coordinate vendors/OEMs
  • Solid understanding of mechanical/electrical/instrumentation work on fossil plant systems (boilers, valves, pumps, heat exchangers, turbine/generator auxiliaries, balance-of-plant)
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management across sites and functions


Key competencies:
Planning rigor and attention to detail, decisive prioritization, vendor/OEM coordination, analytical problem-solving, safety-first mindset, collaboration and coaching, continuous improvement orientation

Travel:
Regional travel to supported sites as needed (approx. 25%, depending on outage schedule)

Location: Position will be based at the Palm Beach Gardens, FL office, Regional (multi-site support across assigned fossil plants) is required. Consideration to be based out of one of the sites will be determined by candidate's experience and the needs of the business unit.

Reporting:
Central Maintenance Planning General Manager

Job Overview

Employees in this job plan, monitor and manage large-scale internal projects from initiation through completion. This role provides direction on projects to the department or project team members.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Oversees a variety of large-scale projects of high complexity
  • Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports
  • Secures required resources and uses formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes
  • Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis
  • Identifies issues and challenges, measures and validates results, and implements solutions
  • Provides expert information to internal and external clients on complex issues
  • Creates and communicates presentation materials for report out and updates with various levels of internal and external stakeholders
  • Conducts external research and stays abreast of new developments or innovative advancements pertaining to the project
  • Provides coaching, leadership and direction to project team
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned


Required Qualifications

  • High School Grad / GED
  • Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
  • Experience: 6+ years


Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's Degree
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)


NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Project Management
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

About NextEra Energy

A growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy, Inc., NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) acquires, manages, and owns contracted clean energy projects with stable, long-term cash flows. They own interests in wind and solar projects in North America, as well as natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas. Renewable energy projects are fully contracted, use technology, and are located in regions that are favorable for generating energy from the wind and sun. The seven natural gas pipelines in the portfolio are all strategically located, serving power producers and municipalities in South Texas, processing plants and producers in the Eagle Ford Shale, and commercial and industrial customers in the Houston area. The NET Mexico Pipeline, the largest pipeline in the portfolio, provides a critical source of natural gas transportation for low-cost, U.S.-sourced shale gas to Mexico.

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Learn more about NextEra Energy
Size
15,000 employees
Market Cap
$6.1 billion
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Net Income
-$51 million
Founded
2014
5 Year Trend
+4.9%
Revenue
$917 million
NASDAQ
NEE
* Ladders Estimates

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