Calpine

Maintenance Planner I

Calpine • $92K — $119K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in maintenance, engineering, or related field; vocational/technical experience preferred
  • 2-4 years of relevant experience in maintenance and plant operations
  • Expertise in maintenance software, databases, and spreadsheets
  • Strong understanding of power maintenance and administrative controls
  • Ability to work independently with good judgment

Responsibilities

  • Create plans for continuous equipment and system operations
  • Administer maintenance and operation work schedules based on productivity needs
  • Evaluate maintenance, operations, and engineering needs for scheduling
  • Manage inventory and oversee maintenance program efficiency
  • Formulate maintenance plans including budgets, material requirements, and tracking tools
  • Resolve maintenance issues and assess job prioritization
  • Collaborate with management on business objectives related to maintenance operations

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Engagement with plant leadership
  • Independent decision-making authority
  • Potential for innovative problem-solving in maintenance challenges
Full Job Description
Job Summary: (includes but is not limited to the following, other duties may be assigned)

Creates plans that permit the continued operation of equipment and systems affecting the company's business operations to a substantial degree. Responsible for determining, monitoring, and administering maintenance and operation work schedules to meet plant productivity needs. In coordination with plant management and project managers, develops and implements work schedules after evaluating maintenance, operations, and engineering needs. Exercises discretion and independent judgment based on plant operations, maintenance needs, resources, and timing considerations. Involved in planning long- and short-term business objectives involving maintenance, repair, and replacement of equipment. Managers long lead time items. Provides support and works with management team on managing resources and material. Investigates and resolves maintenance issues.

Additionally responsible for assessing priority of maintenance requests (both long- and short-term), determining job requirements, and determining appropriate staffing resources. Exercises discretion and independent judgment to integrate plant needs with maintenance/operation resources in supporting work schedule development. Formulates maintenance plans, provides budgetary information, material requirement list, budget tracking tools, and tracks job progress. Works with Maintenance Manager to manage backlogs and classification / designation of work orders. Provides input and actively collaborates

on possible repair options including repair vs. replace scenarios.

Manages inventory, inventory warehouse counts, and works to ensure obsolete equipment is remediated at a minimum on an annual basis.

Job Responsibilities
• Seasoned professional with administrative skill and advanced applied experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of maintenance and plant operations.
• Competent in the use of Maximo, Job Planning, labor management, and job estimating
• Administers maintenance program with particular emphasis on establishing work plan to effect operation/maintenance performance and efficiencies.
• Manages outage readiness check lists for required planning periods.
• Makes decisions concerning complex issues regarding project components and tasks. Ability to create job and Safe Work Plans
• Leads, researches, prepares, plans and schedules exercising discretion in formulating solutions using independent decision-making.
• Collaborates with operations on hazard isolation and critical component requirements.
• Makes recommendations regarding planning issues.
• Supports and works with plant leadership in the selection of methods, techniques, and analytical approaches.
• Advises management team in planning long and short-term business objectives, material delivery concerns, and labor management.
• Able to administer maintenance planning based on general plant and operations policies with engagement with the plant maintenance manager to meet planned and emergent needs.
• Prepares work scopes and serves as resource for work executed by professionals, technicians, and others both inside and outside of workforce.
• Work is primarily office or non-manual work related to the plant maintenance operations.
• Must compare and evaluate possible courses of action and make a decision after various possibilities have been considered
• Has authority to wave or deviate from established policies and procedures in exceptional circumstances.
• Advises management on best policies and practices for coordinating resources to achieve maintenance goal and regularly keeps management abreast on actionable solutions to planning issues.
• Collaborate and solve problems - works with others to resolve significant issues in the plant, clarifies or interprets complex information, provide initial screening/remediation.

Job Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree and vocational/technical experience, or equivalent work experience and education in maintenance, engineering-related field, or equivalent.
• Expert in department-specific software, databases, and spreadsheets; strong understanding of power maintenance/plant operations functions, administrative controls, or related.
• Generally, requires 2-4 years' of relevant experience.
• Ability to work independently and exercise good judgment as well as mastery of maintenance and control operations functions necessary to administer maintenance.

Preferred Requirements
• Experience with vehicle fleet management to include managing DMV records, scheduling repairs, and managing part inventory.
• Experience with California 90-day BIT inspections and Advanced Clean Fleet CARB vehicle inspections.
• Coupa, TransMan, and Maximo systems experience.

Salary Information
• Hourly Rate Range - $44.2838 to $57.5689 /hour

About Calpine

Calpine Corporation is a power generation company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Calpine's fleet of natural gas-fired and geothermal power plants has a combined generating capacity of approximately 26,000 megawatts. Calpine sells wholesale power and other energy-related services to utilities, independent electric system operators, industrial and commercial customers, and retail power providers. The company was founded in 1984 and went public in 1996. In 2018, Calpine was acquired by Energy Capital Partners and a consortium of investors.
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