Outage Work Management Planner / Turbine in Belmont, West Virginia at Pleasants Power Station

The Outage Work Management Planner / Turbine Planner is responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution support of maintenance and outage activities involving steam turbines, generators, and associated plant equipment. This position develops detailed work plans, outage scopes, resource requirements, schedules, and work packages to ensure outage work is completed safely, efficiently, on schedule, and within budget.

The Planner works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, and contractors to identify outage needs, define work scopes, procure materials, coordinate resources, and monitor work progress. This role plays a critical part in improving equipment reliability, minimizing outage duration, and maximizing plant availability.

• High school diploma or GED required; bachelor's degree in an engineering field and 3yrs experience in a related field or minimum associate degree in an engineering field and 10 years’ experience in power station maintenance.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of power generation, industrial maintenance, turbine maintenance, outage planning, or related experience.
• Working knowledge of steam turbines, generators, valves, pumps, and auxiliary equipment.
• Experience developing maintenance work packages, job plans, and outage schedules.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, schematics, manuals, and procedures.
• Proficiency with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) and Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong organizational, planning, and project coordination skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple priorities in a fast-paced outage environment.

Responsibilities Include:

• SME for Pleasants Turbines and Generator systems
• Turbine floor repair lead during planned and forced outages
• Ability to do short notice call outs for forced outages
• May be assigned to perform the duties as back-shift Outage Supervisor
• Provide daily system monitoring and proactively identify issues that need to be addressed during outage opportunities. Provide troubleshooting support for Operations and Maintenance as needed.
• Coordinates capital projects and routine maintenance with internal plant and contractor supervision.
• Establishes priorities and directs contractor resources, as required, to ensure that forced and planned outage and project schedules and budgets are maintained
• Prepares job plans for scheduled outages including identifying vendor, technical support, detailed task lists, project schedules and budgets
• Supports project control activities through drafting and updating project schedules and forced/maintenance outage schedules.
• Reviewing and analyzing work requests to develop detailed job packages in accordance with standard company work management practices using Maximo and other related computer applications and shall be in accordance with all safety procedures and environmental policies.
• Maintaining a backlog of work and keeping assigned work requests planned in a timely fashion with emphasis placed on safety and environmental issues.
• Generating requests for contract purchase orders and managing and scheduling contract work as necessary.
• Developing and reviewing labor standard estimating guides for job packages
• Using computers and related software for the execution of the planning processes such as Maximo, FileNet, PI and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to train to a level 2 vibration technician (Proficiency in creating, maintaining vibration routes and entry level analyzing of trends)
• Owner of the Oil sampling program (Sampling and maintaining process of handling samples)
• Have an understanding of the turbine control system and assist with troubleshooting issues.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor

Comprehensive Benefits Package:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance coverage beginning the first day of the month following employment
• 100% company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• $50,000 Company-paid Basic Life and AD&D Insurance policy
• Optional Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with a4% company match after 90 days of employment
• Paid Time Off (PTO), plus eight paid company holidays annually