Team Leader, Maintenance

The Maintenance Team Leader reports directly to the Plant Manager. They direct, lead, and supervise a team of maintenance personnel in a plant environment at a Natural Gas power plant while sharing responsibility for its safe, efficient, and reliable operation. This position’s primary responsibility is to oversee the maintenance program of the plant, including both routine and outage work. This role manages, optimizes, and fully implements the Conditioned Based Outage/Integrated Planning Process (aka Stage Gate Process).

Outage oversight responsibilities include both planning and execution phases of outages. The leader also participates in the development of the multi‑year tactical and strategic project identification and budgeting processes, effectively manages maintenance issues to support system needs, evaluates the performance of and develops direct reports, maintains high standards of diversity and inclusion, ethics and integrity, and drives continuous improvement as a champion of change.

• Responsible for safety, compliance, budgeting, reliability, and all other aspects of the maintenance program of the plant
• Provides direction to maintenance personnel (mechanics, electricians, instrument technicians), schedules resources, and manages staffing issues
• Provides leadership for and the development of direct reports to embrace a culture of strong fundamentals of operation and maintenance
• Embraces human performance improvement initiatives
• Assures that plant operations/maintenance personnel comply with safe work practices, plant procedures, and efficiently and effectively operate and maintain plant equipment
• Ranks and prioritizes reliability and financial risks using data analysis and historical and predictive maintenance information from both internal and external industry sources
• Works with Fleet Maintenance group in overseeing long‑range and detailed planning and execution of Fossil unit outage, including management of cost, schedule, and safety processes for outage scope
• Prepares and plans near‑term and strategic maintenance budget
• Supports budget/project development and cost control for short‑range work plans and long‑range strategic planning
• Prepares and manages budget in assigned area to leverage the financial process to manage deviations from the approved annual budget
• Collaborates with Planning and Operations personnel and assigns resources to address emerging maintenance issues
• Initiates and provides leadership in respect to contract management/contractor oversight for routine and outage work
• Staffs and manages routine, planned, emergency, and reserve outages as well as assigned projects
• Develops schedule and budget related to routine maintenance and planned outages
• Interfaces with other members of plant management team to drive resolution of key issues impacting business processes, budget, maintenance strategies, outage scope, schedule, and costs for facilities
• Evaluates and champions gap closure actions that are consistent with the company's overall business strategy
• Leads site teams to identify and implement maintenance strategies and funding needs for equipment processes
• Maintains strong relationships with internal and external interfaces and key strategic alliance partners
• Maintains an awareness of the latest industry research and practical application to drive continuous improvement

Minimum education required of the position:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Candidate with a bachelor's degree in a technical field such as engineering or equivalent work experience (e.g., 10 years of power plant experience with at least 5 years of maintenance experience)

Minimum experience required of the position:

• Without degree: 10 years of Power Plant Experience with at least 5 years of maintenance experience
• With technical degree: 5 years of Power Plant Maintenance Experience
• Experience with O&M/Capital Budget development, executing and management
• Experience in Work Management processes and maintenance strategies
  • Includes planning and scheduling
• Experience in contract/project management

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position:

• Technical Needs
  • Experie…