Job Details

Regional Outage Manager

Regional Outage Managers will provide outage management support for major projects and scheduled outages at each of the Lignite Plants. In order to meet the desired project/outage objectives for cost, schedule, quality, craft health and safety, and environmental compliance, the Regional Outage Managers will manage services provided by plant personnel, contractors and equipment manufacturer representatives, and other Luminant organizations. The Regional Outage Manager, dedicated to the yearly outage activities of each Lignite Facility, is used to support long range project planning/estimating, to manage the numerous resources required to complete pre and post outage planning/execution, to develop/track accurate outage schedules, to manage procurement and cost tracking, and to manage execution of the outage activities in accordance with the Luminant Outage Playbook.

Key Accountabilities:

• Serve as Outage Manager for all scheduled outages at assigned plant(s). Planning and execution of non-scheduled outages (i.e. outages that do not appear on the yearly outage schedule) will be managed and executed by the plant Maintenance staff.
• Provide supplementary Construction Management support for outages at other plants, as available and with concurrence from management of normally assigned plant(s).
• Ensure execution of project/outage activities meet the desired objectives of cost, schedule, quality, craft health and safety, and environmental compliance in accordance with the Luminant Outage Playbook.

Education, Experience and Skill Requirements:

• High school diploma/GED equivalent required
• 5+ years experience in the management of unit outages for maintenance and repair of fossil power production equipment
• 15 to 20 years of experience in the maintenance and repair of fossil power production equipment
• Knowledge of fossil power plant equipment disassembly/reassembly techniques, particularly steam turbine, combustion turbine, and boiler components
• Experience in interfacing with contract craft personnel and equipment manufacturer field representatives
• Working knowledge of fossil power plant operations, work processes, RCM diagnostic tools/techniques, and personnel
• Working knowledge of safety, health, and environmental requirements in fossil power plants
• Experience with directing multiple large projects concurrently
• Experience with critical path schedules and working knowledge of scheduling software
• Experience with detailed cost tracking, cost projections, and budgeting
• Experience with detailed planning, scheduling, work order development, and other work process controls
• Typical unit outages are 4 to 8 weeks in duration and Regional Project Managers will be required to work extended hours 7 days per week in support of the outages.