Description**The ideal candidate will live within the region (Southeast).Job Summary: The Outage Manager is responsible for preparation, planning, leading execution, and close out of complex planned/emergent Outage events for gas turbine, steam turbine and generator agreements while supporting the development of the business strategy for field fulfilment excellence in FieldCore. The Outage Manager is a focal role, with accountability for driving consistent outage planning and execution, and adoption of best practices and lessons learned. Will lead complex outages for their assigned Country/Countries or location(s) wherever possible, given the need to achieve target utilization levels.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities- Engage and interact with customers (both internal and external) throughout all phases of event management project lifecycles which includes commercial, planning, execution, closeout, and financial reconciliation
- Manage complex outage event preparation (Planned/Emergent/Upgrade) from start to finish, including outage schedule development, TFA/craft labor/tooling/cost planning, customer management - pre/post outage meetings, mobilization planning, JCE execution, and event close out
- Own onsite execution (site lead) with large teams during assigned outages, ensuring Fulfilment-5 goals and requirements are met.
- Manage on job cost tracking, productivity, while managing execution risk/FMEA and any NU/Service warranty
- Drive improvement of on-time delivery, outage cost and productivity, implementation, effectively update and maintain accurate tracking files, control man hour cost and pacing
- Lead project quotation development including work scope, site condition check, preliminary safety and risk analysis to identify potential issues or obstacles and to minimize cost impact for site execution
- Support customer operations team during shut-down, start-up, running and performance testing of turbine, generator and auxiliary systems
- Ensure proper execution documentation is prepared, used, reviewed, stored and delivered including, Field Procedures, Quality Procedures, EHS, and Customer Outage Reports
- Work with web systems applications for proper allocation, preparation, planning and forecasting of labor, tooling, vendor management
- Respond to forced outages/emergency promptly, be on site when needed, investigate/escalate site issues to restore the units to operating conditions in a timely manner
- Support Customer Service Leader on technical communication to customer staff during outage execution
- Actively work to improve and optimize existing processes and look for simplification opportunities
- Ability and willingness to work holidays, weekends and overtime as required by field assignments
- Travel will be required
- May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization's core values.
Required Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Science/engineering or equivalent 4 years of experience in power generation industry.
- 8+ years applicable experience and demonstrated success/knowledge on gas/steam turbine or generator maintenance (depending on needs)
- 3+ years of specialized/industry experience of gas/steam turbine generator & auxiliary system outage planning and execution.
- English proficiency required
Desired Characteristics:- Strong Project Management and planning skills (Primavera scheduling tool preferred)
- PC proficiency, web applications including advanced Excel skills
- Able to interface effectively with all levels of the organization and external customers
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills and influencing skill
- Strong technical and maintenance knowledge of gas/steam turbines and generators
- Strong team leader in dynamic, energetic and complex customer site environments
- Ability to work under high pressure and constraint time, committed and process oriented
- Ability to work multiple project simultaneously and effectively in a cross-functional team
- Ability to influence stakeholders to deliver customer and business needs
- FEP graduate
Compensation and Benefits:The annual salary range for this position is $102,500 to $172,100. This is an exempt from overtime position. FieldCore benefits include insurance (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life), retirement savings, health and Wellness reimbursement, and a bonus or incentive program. Eligibility for FieldCore benefits is determined under the terms of the applicable benefits plan.
