Job Duties:
- Visit work sites and identify any safety hazards or other potential problems that need to be documented. If necessary, contact the requestor to ensure that the work is accurately understood before planning.
- Estimate what craft groups it will take to do the job and how long it should take to do the job.
- Determine the material needed, reserve the stock items, and order non-stock materials. Also, ensure that they are available in sufficient quantities for the work to be performed.
- Ensure all required resources, labor, materials, tools; rental equipment, contractors, etc. are ready before the work is scheduled.
- Develop and track craft/crew backlogs (a total of all labor requirements for work that is ready to schedule).
- Track the labor capacity for each week, to take enough work out of the backlog to make up the weekly schedule. This total considers vacations, sickness, overtime, etc. to ensure an accurate schedule can be produced.
- Prepare a weekly schedule to be given to the Plant O&M Supervisors at the end of the week, so they can prepare for the next week. This position also prepares a long-range projected schedule for a period of four weeks.
- Track work orders to completion in the computerized maintenance management system (Maximo). This position receives completed work orders, notes any problems, and ensures that the following minimal information is available in Maximo: date of repair, work order number, accumulated downtime, cause code, priority of work, actual labor, actual materials, total cost, and year-to-date and life-to-date costs. Evaluate KPIs and other performance indicators within Maximo to ensure efficiency within the maintenance process.
- Interface with management, outage coordinator, craft, operations, and specialized positions to resolve planning and scheduling issues. Includes providing performance reports for management review and administration of action items that are developed from those reports. Development of outage personnel schedule and tracking of any changes requested by management.
Required Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering or engineering technology is preferred.
Experience: Eight (8) years minimum outage maintenance and management experience in an operating commercial electric power generating plant is desired. Must have experience with using a CMMS, with preference given to Maximo.
Equivalent Experience: Candidates with a two (2) year technical degree plus ten (10) years of related maintenance and management experience in an electrical power plant environment or twelve (12) years of directly related maintenance and management experience may be considered.
Equivalent experience will be determined based on a combination of education, training, and professional, technical or military experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job. Education considered may include technical and college studies and degrees, industrial training programs and certifications, and military training. Experience considered may include related industrial and military work. Supervisory, management and leadership responsibilities may be considered in any work or military setting.
Specialized Skills:
- Motivated individual who has very strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Results-oriented style.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Strong technical and business analytical skills.
- Ability to get results and yet operate with a diplomatic style.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other fellow employees and representatives of vendors and contractors used on outages.
- The ability to develop instructions from technical manuals, journals, drawings, and other related material.
- Possess excellent skills in oral and written communication using the English language.
- Decision making capabilities.
- Must pass the Basic Aptitude/Skills exam.
- Ability to use personal computers, including but not limited to word processing, spreadsheets, database, and scheduling applications.
- Ability to plan, schedule, organize and coordinate work assignments of various trades.
- Working knowledge or power plant equipment and systems.
- Knowledge of the methods, materials, and equipment used in servicing and repairing mechanical, electrical, electronic and instrumentation and control equipment.
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, diagrams, and drawings for structures, process systems, mechanical equipment, HVAC systems, piping, and electrical and electronic equipment.
- Basic management/supervisory skills.
- Ability to wear and use required personnel protective equipment including respirators (self-contained breathing apparatus and face cartridge respirators and airline supplied respirators).
Licenses, Registrations, and/or Certifications: Valid driver's license that meets the insurance eligibility requirements under Oglethorpe Power's Driver Qualification Program.
Travel: 30%
Oglethorpe Power Corporation
2100 E Exchange Pl
Tucker
Georgia United States
www.opc.com
