Job DescriptionAbout the OpportunityThe Senior Gas Turbine Maintenance Manager is responsible for the maintenance strategy, reliability, availability, and technical support of a multi-site gas turbine fleet. This position provides fleet-level leadership for routine maintenance, planned major outages, forced-outage response, troubleshooting, inspections, engine/component replacements, and long-term maintenance planning.
Essential Functions- Manage maintenance activities and strategy across a multi-site gas turbine fleet.
- Develop and maintain fleet preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs.
- Plan and support scheduled inspections, major maintenance outages, engine swaps, and component replacements.
- Lead technical response to forced outages, equipment failures, trips, and other critical reliability events.
- Coordinate troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and fleet-wide lessons learned.
- Monitor turbine operating condition, performance trends, vibration, alarms, inspection findings, and equipment reliability.
- Manage turbine maintenance schedules, work scopes, maintenance records, and CMMS requirements.
- Develop and manage annual turbine maintenance budgets, outage forecasts, and long-range maintenance plans.
- Manage critical turbine spares, repairable components, tooling, and long-lead materials.
- Coordinate OEMs, technical advisors, specialty contractors, repair facilities, and service providers.
- Participate in borescope inspections, major component inspections, engine/component repair evaluations, FATs, and vendor shop visits.
- Provide technical support for commissioning, turbine replacements, upgrades, modifications, and return-to-service activities.
- Establish standardized fleet maintenance procedures, technical standards, and best practices.
- Support training and technical development of plant maintenance personnel.
- Conduct regular site visits and provide technical guidance to Plant Managers and Plant Maintenance Managers.
- Maintain a strong focus on safety, environmental compliance, equipment reliability, availability, and operational readiness.
QualificationsExperience/Education- High School Diploma or GED required
- 15-20+ years of gas turbine maintenance and power-generation experience preferred.
- Extensive experience with industrial/aeroderivative gas turbines, generators, turbine auxiliaries, controls, and associated systems.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple turbines and/or multiple power-generation sites.
- Strong experience with planned outages, forced outages, troubleshooting, failure investigations, engine swaps, inspections, and OEM maintenance requirements.
- Proven ability to manage maintenance budgets, contractors, vendors, schedules, and critical spare parts.
- Significant travel to operating plants, OEM facilities, repair shops, and vendor locations required.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship for employment visa status
Skills and Qualifications- Exceptional communicator - direct and transparent, skilled problem-solver with proven success in building coalitions and avoiding conflicts
- Total ownership mentality - proactively identifies and removes obstacles across numerous ongoing tasks
- Independent thinker - provides original thoughts and constantly asking "how can we do this better"
- Innovative thinker - willingness to consider novel solutions ability to adapt to change
- Desirable teammate - impeccable character, humility, and collaborative
- Relentless - aspires to contribute and achieve his/her full potential
Additional Information- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, Dental & Vision benefits
- Disability Insurance
- Company paid Life and AD&D insurance with supplemental offerings
- Company matching 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid time off, including 10 paid holidays
- Career Progression
- Tuition Reimbursement
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