Vistra Corp.

Turbine/Generator Project Manager - Comanche Peak

Vistra Corp.$100K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma with 8 years of experience or bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience
  • 5-8 years of project management experience, preferably with steam turbines
  • Experience at a commercial nuclear power plant is preferred
  • PMP or IPMA certification desired within 2 years
  • Strong understanding of steam turbine design and thermodynamics
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and ERP systems like SAP
  • Exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain the Turbine/Generator Long Range Plan
  • Lead and manage turbine generator projects for successful delivery
  • Oversee vendor contracts as the Owner's Representative
  • Ensure compliance with project policies and standards
  • Facilitate continuous improvement initiatives
  • Monitor project milestones and ensure adherence to schedules
  • Report project status and escalate issues as necessary

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional certification and advancement
  • Work in a dynamic, mixed office and field environment
  • Engage with a collaborative leadership and peer team
  • Travel opportunities for project execution and evaluation
  • Gain experience in high-stakes environments like power plants
Full Job Description
Job Summary
The Turbine/Generator Project Manager provides project management of turbine generator and auxiliary systems maintenance, including modifications, upgrades, installations, maintenance during the preparation for and execution of plant outages. The project manager ensures projects are completed on time, within budget, meeting high standards of quality and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities include:

Developing and maintaining the Turbine/Generator Long Range Plan.
Leading and managing turbine generator projects, coordinating internal and external resources, while ensuring project deliverables are achieved safely within the approved scope, cost, and schedule. Leading the project from requirements definition through implementation, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and implementation plans, including risk mitigation. Reviewing complex project and contract budgets for adequacy, completeness, and other requirements. Identifying and developing solutions to items that may impact project schedule or cost and addressing with responsible parties and analyzing project status, revising the scope, schedule, or budget when necessary to ensure that project requirements can be met.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities
  • Management and oversight of vendor contracts; acting as the Owner's Representative.

  • Delivery of projects within cost and schedule constraints involving multiple vendors and coordination of a variety of internal work.
  • Providing a high level of customer service, continuous day-to-day support of peers/groups and proactive involvement with the leadership team, fellow peers and customers.
  • Providing oversight of consultants and contractors to ensure policies/procedures are followed and standards are met, ensuring compliance with specifications and standards.
  • Focusing on continuous improvement and providing leadership on initiatives and projects.
  • Drive project team adherence to pre-outage and outage work management milestones.
  • Demonstrated troubleshooting ability to identify issues, assess alternatives and risks, and implement solutions while keeping overall project on track.
  • Establish and maintain processes for managing scope during the project lifecycle, setting quality and performance standards and assessing risks.
  • Develop and maintain partnerships with third-party resources, including vendors and researchers
  • Assign and monitor resources to ensure project efficiency and maximize deliverables.
  • Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels and escalate issues, as necessary, according to project work plan.
  • Performing Emergency Response Organization (ERO) duties as assigned.


Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements
  • High school or secondary school diploma with 8 years' experience OR a bachelor's degree or higher with five years' experience
  • 5-8 years of project management experience, preferably with steam turbine projects, and experience in construction management or the power generation industry are beneficial.
  • Four years' experience at a commercial nuclear power plant (preferred).
  • PMP or IPMA certification is desired; will be required within 2 years of becoming the Project Manager.
  • A strong understanding of steam turbine design, assembly, repair, and auxiliary systems is necessary. Knowledge of turbine thermodynamics and relevant industry standards is also helpful.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc..), ERP systems (like SAP or Maximo), and other relevant software is needed.
  • Essential skills include leadership, communication, negotiation, problem-solving, organization, and interpersonal abilities. The ability to multitask and work effectively in a matrix structure is also important.
  • Strong written and oral/verbal communication skills, including the ability to make formal presentations to management.
  • The ability to access all areas of a customer site, including confined spaces and heights, is required.
  • The work environment involves both office and field settings, including power plants. There may be exposure to extreme temperatures, noise, and vibrations.
  • Travel is required to support fleet outages, meetings and project execution/evaluation.


Key Metrics
  • Safety Excellence
  • Risk Mitigation and Contingency Planning
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Problem Solving / Decision Making
  • Results Orientation


Job Family
Plant Operations

Company
Vistra Nuclear Operations Company

Locations
Glen Rose, 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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