Vistra Corp.

Sr. Outage Cycle Manager

Vistra Corp.$100K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or GED required
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance, Operations, or Work Management
  • SRO License or Certification required
  • Project Management/Scheduling experience is highly desired

Responsibilities

  • Manage the preparation, planning, and execution of refueling and forced outages
  • Oversee outage milestones and engage with stakeholders for timely and quality completion of preparation activities
  • Develop and integrate outage schedules to ensure high levels of safety in personnel, radiological, and equipment handling
  • Utilize lean techniques to continuously improve processes and add value to the plant
  • Participate in industry benchmarking to achieve and maintain top decile performance in outage execution

Benefits

  • Access to continuous training and professional development
  • Participation in industry benchmark groups
  • Opportunity to influence and improve operational safety standards
  • Supportive work environment focused on risk management and efficiency
  • Engagement with top-level operational standards and performance metrics
Full Job Description
Job Summary
This position is responsible for managing the Outage Management departments in a cost-effective business environment. Plan and schedule for both refueling outages and forced outages. These plans and schedules coordinate the efforts of the various work, support, and engineering organizations as required to effectively maintain Vistra nuclear equipment in a high state of readiness. Safely support generation obligation while carefully managing risk.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities
• Manages the stations preparation, planning, and execution of refueling and forced outages.
• Manages outage milestones and influences station and external stakeholders to complete preparation activities on time and with quality.
• Manages the station's outage schedule development to ensure outage activities are integrated and coordinated in a plan that maintains the highest level of personnel, radiological, nuclear and equipment safety to execute short duration effective refueling outages.
• Employing lean techniques in continuous improvement processes to ensure each area of responsibility is constantly improving the associated processes and adding to the value of the plant, people, processes and equipment.
• Aggressively participate in industry benchmarking / peer groups to ensure the station remains a top decile performer in outage execution as compared to similar design plants.

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements
• High school diploma/GED equivalent required
• Minimum of 8 years -experience in Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance, Operations or Work Management
• SRO License or Certification required
• Project Management / Scheduling experience is highly desired

Key Metrics
• Safe and Reliable plant operation as evidenced by low-risk profiles, lack of nuclear safety, personnel safety or radiological safety events and meeting or exceeding top decile generation profiles.
• Outage work completed with low percentage of rejected or rescheduled work and with minimum unplanned safety system unavailability and within planned outage duration.
• Drive Station performance to top decile as measured by INPO.
• Set performance standards and hold the station and vendors accountable for outage goals.

Job Family
Plant Operations

Company
Vistra Nuclear Operations Company

Locations
Shippingport, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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.
Learn more about Vistra Corp.
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Market Cap
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