Outage Manager

Job Summary:

The Outage Manager is responsible for preparation, planning, leading execution, and close out of complex planned/emergent Outage events for gas turbine, steam turbine and generator agreements while supporting the development of the business strategy for field fulfilment excellence in FieldCore. The Outage Manager is a focal role, with accountability for driving consistent outage planning and execution, and adoption of best practices and lessons learned. Will lead complex outages for their assigned Country/Countries or location(s) wherever possible, given the need to achieve target utilization levels.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manage complex outage event preparation (Planned/Emergent/Upgrade) from start to finish, including outage schedule development, TFA/craft labor/tooling/cost planning, customer management - pre/post outage meetings, mobilization planning, JCE execution, and event close out
• Own onsite execution (site lead) with large teams during assigned outages, ensuring Fulfilment-5 goals and requirements are met.
• Manage on job cost tracking, productivity, while managing execution risk/FMEA and any NU/Service warranty
• Drive improvement of on-time delivery, outage cost and productivity, implementation, effectively update and maintain accurate tracking files, control man hour cost and pacing
• Lead project quotation development including work scope, site condition check, preliminary safety and risk analysis to identify potential issues or obstacles and to minimize cost impact for site execution
• Support customer operations team during shut-down, start-up, running and performance testing of turbine, generator and auxiliary systems
• Ensure proper execution documentation is prepared, used, reviewed, stored and delivered including, Field Procedures, Quality Procedures, EHS, and Customer Outage Reports
• Work with web systems applications for proper allocation, preparation, planning and forecasting of labor, tooling, vendor management
• Respond to forced outages/emergency promptly, be on site when needed, investigate/escalate site issues to restore the units to operating conditions in a timely manner
• Support Customer Service Leader on technical communication to customer staff during outage execution
• Actively work to improve and optimize existing processes and look for simplification opportunities
• Ability and willingness to work holidays, weekends and overtime as required by field assignments
• Travel may be required
• May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science/engineering or equivalent 4 years of experience in power generation industry.
• 8+ years applicable experience and demonstrated success/knowledge on gas/steam turbine or generator maintenance (depending on needs)
• 3+ years of specialized/industry experience of gas/steam turbine generator & auxiliary system outage planning and execution.
• English proficiency required

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong Project Management and planning skills (Primavera scheduling tool preferred)
• PC proficiency, web applications including advanced Excel skills
• Able to interface effectively with all levels of the organization and external customers
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills and influencing skill
• Strong technical and maintenance knowledge of gas/steam turbines and generators
• Strong team leader in dynamic, energetic and complex customer site environments
• Ability to work under high pressure and constraint time, committed and process oriented
• Ability to work multiple project simultaneously and effectively in a cross-functional team
• Ability to influence stakeholders to deliver customer and business needs