MANAGER OPERATION - (POWER PLANT)

Job Description:

 Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for all plant equipment and fuel handling operations
• Leads Plant Operations in alignment with Safety, Environmental and Conduct of Operations policies
• Actively supports and emphasizes importance of safety and environmental programs and ensures regulatory compliance
• Promotes productivity and teamwork in Operations with open communication, timely decision making, and use of personal leadership skills to set high standards of performance while providing the direction necessary to achieve that performance
• Provides leadership in the lock out/tag out program in order to promote safe operations and maintenance
• Monitors plant and unit performance, conducts root cause analysis, and leads investigations to develop and implement corrective actions
• Sets maintenance priorities and schedules maintenance for the plant in conjunction with the Maintenance Manager
• Coordinates unit load scheduling, testing, status, outage plans and acts as primary interface with Commercial Operations for reporting unit status and capabilities
• Ensures proper training is being provided to Plant Operators and Coal Handling personnel
• Ensures development, implementation and monitoring of work schedules and plans in their work area of responsibility
• Ensures regulatory compliance and collects and submits evidence in support of NERC reliability standards
• Maintains communications with other areas of the Company including Safety, Environmental, Human Resources, Fuels, and Corporate Management Teams to coordinate activities and facilitate process improvement initiatives
• Performs field inspections of job sites and work or operational evolutions in progress
• Recognizes problems and is proactive in helping to resolve them
• Administers and participates in the resolution of labor agreements and labor issues
• Assists in coordinates emergency response efforts (i.e. winter and summer readiness, freeze protection, integrated contingency plan, spill response plan, etc.)
• Provides regular feedback to employees on their performance to allow them to capitalize on their strength and focus on opportunities for improvement
• Develops, implements and revises operational policies and procedures to improve plant performance and ensure consistent operations between crews.
• Able to fulfill the responsibilities of the Plant Manager position in their absence