This position is with NorthStar Clean Energy, a CMS Energy company, and is not a position of employment with Consumers Energy.
The Grayling Generating Station plant is a 38 MW biomass-fueled renewable energy power plant that produces electricity. The fuel consists primarily of bark and sawdust from local lumber mills and the non-marketable biomass from lumbering operations. The power produced supports the health of the forests, mitigates greenhouse gases (is "carbon neutral"), conserves landfill space and supports the electric grid in northern Michigan. The electric output is sold pursuant to a long-term power purchase agreement with Consumers Energy Company. This facility can produce enough electricity to power approximately 38,000 homes. Commercial operation began in 1992.
The Sr. Plant Manager Directs all operations and maintenance activities of the power plant. Possess thorough knowledge and understanding of power plant operations and maintenance processes. Proactively monitor and enhance plant production and equipment performance and efficiency and maintain plant reliability. Responsible for reliability, production, safety, compliance, employee development, quality and lean management, and financial performance. Holds management responsibility to ensure a safe production environment that operates within all applicable regulatory compliance requirements, including environmental operating permits, NERC reliability standards, Sarbanes-Oxley processes, and company policies.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Leads and directs the work of plant staff and coordinates with the business unit support group personnel as needed. Oversees staff to provide operations support functions, such as engineering and technical support, maintenance, work planning and execution, regulatory compliance, and administrative support. Ensure that the morale and motivation of plant personnel is maintained at a high level. Ensure that the certification and qualification status of affected personnel is maintained.
- Develops and executes long term and outage planning activities, including large capital expenditure improvements.
- Track and control budget, schedules and quality to meet allotted budgets and critical milestones. Responsible for managing costs through effective staffing and approval of expenditures. Oversee monthly variance reporting. Ability to understand, interpret and articulate profit and loss projections and targets.
- Administer the plant's safety, operations, maintenance, chemistry, environmental, compliance, procurement and quality programs to assure the safe, efficient and reliable operation of the plant. Possess strong knowledge of safety, environmental and NERC regulations.
- Sets organizational priorities and allocates resources to meet plant and business objectives. Adapts plans and adjusts priorities as needed to meet the service and operational challenges of the plant. Identifies and resolves complex technical, operational and organizational problems.
- Interact with customers and co-owners associated with the facility and respond to requests for information. Maintain and expand community relationships. Make frequent contacts with contractors, suppliers and CMS corporate staff. Cooperate and work in concert with the assigned asset manager to optimize business relationships, financial planning, modeling and business growth. Effective communication skills to interact with personnel at all levels of organization. Work effectively with front line supervisors and senior level management.
- Direct and manage fuel activities and objectives that meet the plant's production and financial needs and operating requirements. Understand, interpret and articulate power plant contracts and agreements. Ensures an adequate supply of personnel, tools, equipment and spare parts to provide for safe and reliable operations of the plant.
- Frequently monitors operations for safety and efficiency; maintains regular field presence ensure normal and safe operating conditions. Identify abnormalities with power production equipment or processes. Ability to manage multiple priorities--effective prioritization of competing issues, recognizing relevant constraints and opportunities.
- Sets organizational priorities and allocates resources to meet plant and business objectives. Adapts plans and adjusts priorities as needed to meet the service and operational challenges of the plant. Identifies and resolves complex technical, operational and organizational problems. Manages operations and maintenance employees in the production of power and ensures they are properly trained.
- Monitors the operating status of plant by establishing and reporting relevant key business and operational performance indicators and taking or assigning action to close performance gaps. Implement and monitor key performance metrics and quality and lean programs.
- Perform other duties and leadership and support of fleet and corporate programs as assigned by the executive director of operations.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to accurately prepare and maintain records, files, and reports.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and materials management systems.
- Ability to understand safety procedures and protocols
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Thermal power plant operations and maintenance skills and experience
- Supervisory experience
- Coach and develop operators, technicians, and supervisors
- Ability and willingness to lead by example. High ethics and standards of conduct
- Problem solving and quality and lean management
- Ability to exercise judgment in making critical decisions
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Operations Management, Business, Engineering, or related discipline with a minimum of seven (7) years' of applicable experience
- [OR] Associate degree in Operations Management, Business, Engineering, or related discipline with a minimum of six (9) years of applicable experience
- [OR] High School Diploma with a minimum of eight (11) years of applicable experience
- 7+ year's experience leading and influencing people in a power plant environment required
- Experience in thermal power plant processes, planning and operations and maintenance preferred
Working Conditions:
- Indoor and outdoor work including in hazardous power plant environments and computer work
- Onsite in a power plant. Able to work hours necessary to support the operating plant requirements including overtime when needed
- Occasional local and out of town travel for business and partnership meetings and other plant and fleet objectives
Consumers Energy
1 Energy Plz
Jackson
Michigan United States
www.consumersenergy.com
