Vistra Corp.

Manager Tech Services-Nuclear

Vistra Corp.$120K — $150K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or equivalent degree in Information Systems, Business, or Computer Science; certifications a plus.
  • Over 10 years of IT experience with a focus on nuclear sector.
  • 3-5 years of experience managing a technology team.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills essential for collaborative work.
  • Proven ability to prioritize tasks based on business impact and urgency.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, deploy, and maintain operational support tools and processes.
  • Educate users on relevant processes and ensure documentation is up-to-date.
  • Align technology processes with toolsets and adjust systems to meet objectives.
  • Measure and enhance both process and tool maturity for compliance and quality.
  • Oversee daily operational activities ensuring process quality and incident handling effectiveness.
  • Establish and maintain technology roadmaps that align with organizational goals.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure roadmap alignment and dependency management.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work schedule to accommodate work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for professional development and team engagement initiatives.
  • Contributions towards automation and innovation leading to cost efficiencies.
  • Participation in projects that directly support the nuclear sector's operational goals.
Full Job Description
Job Summary
The Manager serves as a technology leader with strategic responsibility for leading a team and managing a roadmap to ensure the organization meets its goals, with a strong emphasis on nuclear data analytics, operational reporting, automation, and applied AI capabilities. The Manager helps ensure technology processes are consistent, enabled, measured, and improved to drive quality in Technology Services. This role provides leadership for the delivery of trusted nuclear data, standard and advanced reporting, analytics solutions, and intelligent automation that support plant operations, business objectives, and regulatory expectations. The Manager is also responsible for hiring, training, and leading a mid-size team of employees and contractors, as needed, that understand and demonstrate the culture and values of Technology Services.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

  • Manage the process of designing, developing, deploying and maintaining tools and processes to support operations for Technology.
  • Lead team to document and educate users about relevant processes.
  • Ensure alignment between processes and toolsets, modifying systems where needed to deliver desired results.
  • Measure and improve process and tool maturity and compliance.
  • Oversee execution of operational activities and measure process quality and compliance (incident handling, process execution, etc.)
  • Establish roadmap to maintain currency, incorporate new features, and delivery TS objectives through technology solutions.
  • Partner with other teams to identify dependencies and align roadmaps.


Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements

  • Experience gained through college degree programs or certifications in Information Systems, Business, or Computer Science
  • 10+ years of working in an IT environment
  • 3-5 years of technology team management experience
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and teaming skills.
  • Ability to navigate technology environment and work effectively with multiple teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to be trustworthy and dependable.
  • Ability to learn quickly, be self motivated to improve knowledge and tackle new challenges.
  • Ability to prioritize requests to deliver highest-impacting items first.
  • Articulate business value of solutions within their scope.


Key Metrics

  • Team member engagement across technology department
  • Tools adoption and usage, where appropriate
  • Implement improvements that result in reduced operating or capital expense.
  • Implement automation that results in increased operational efficiency and decreased operational cost.


  • Team member engagement across technology department, focusing on nuclear data and collaboration with enterprise groups
  • Adoption, usage, and business impact of nuclear data analytics and reporting solutions, including dashboards, metrics, performance indicators and decision-support tools
  • Implement improvements that result in reduced operating or capital expense, driven by analytics and automation
  • Demonstrated understanding and application of nuclear industry standards, performance indicators, and best practices within technology and analytics solutions
  • Implement automation that results in increased operational efficiency and decreased operational cost, across both technology and nuclear departments


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Job Family
Information Technology

Company
Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations
Irving, Texas

Texas

About Vistra Corp.

Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company that provides essential resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. Based in Irving, Texas, Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability. The company safely operates a reliable, efficient, power generation fleet of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities while taking an innovative, customer-centric approach to its retail business. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Vistra Energy was ranked as the 756th-largest public company in the world. The company owns the Moss Landing Power Plant in California which currently contains the largest battery energy storage system in the world. In 2016, Texas Competitive Electric Holdings, parent company of TXU Energy and Luminant, emerged from Chapter 11. TCEH was then rebranded as Vistra Energy. Vistra acquired Dynegy in 2018. In 2019, Ambit Energy was acquired, resulting in a 32% residential market share in ERCOT, with NRG Energy as its largest competitor. It also acquired Crius Energy in 2019.
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5,060 employees
Market Cap
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