Description
The Bethlehem Energy Center is a state-of-the-art, combined-cycle power plant fueled primarily by natural gas. The plant has a 3 x 3 x 1 combined-cycle configuration: three GE 7FA combustion turbine-generators (CTGs) exhausting at 1,140F to three Nooter/Eriksen heat-recovery steam generators (HRSGs) whose outputs are combined to feed one GE D11 steam turbine-generator.
The Maintenance Supervisor is a leadership position with responsibility for all aspects of the maintenance process including direct leadership and supervision of mechanical and electrical trades. This position will be an integral part of the site management team. A high degree of communication and collaboration with others is required. Proactive leadership (by example) to reinforce DTE's core values of Safety, Reliability, Efficiency, and Responsibility to continuously improve and develop employee culture is critical for the success of this position. Management of the Identification, Planning, Scheduling, Execution process to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the plant.
Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, the employee functions as part of the site leadership team utilizing their technical expertise, discretion, and judgment within established policies, procedures, and practices.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
•Maintains a strong safety culture. Complies with all site safety and environmental requirements and procedures. Identifies safety hazards and takes corrective actions, as necessary. Assists with the development of and ensures that all site safety requirements and procedures are properly implemented, consistently observed and corrective actions are initiated when applicable.
•Assigns and supervises daily routine and plant/unit outage work activities of plant staff and contracted resources, including scheduled preventive maintenance, corrective and routine work.
•Evaluate required work and manage costs to perform, including evaluating in-house knowledge, skills and abilities versus contractor services.
•Daily, verifies new work order descriptions, priorities and root cause analysis to meticulously plan, resource load and schedule the work.
•Assist with the procurement/purchasing of spare parts and materials for stock and non-stock.
•Evaluate vendor quotes and services to determine the most desirable supplier.
•Establishes and adds to/modifies as required all predictive/preventive maintenance requirements programmed into the maintenance management system (EAM).
•Performs PM spot checks to verify the quality of the process.
•Oversees mechanical and electrical inspections, troubleshooting and repairs on a variety of power plant equipment and systems.
•Oversees and provides guidance on all facility maintenance, including main plant and auxiliary components.
•Assist with managing uniform application and technical correctness of a comprehensive maintenance program, including forecasting manpower workload and equipment for short- term and long-term needs.
•Assists in developing standard procedures for maintenance.
•Assists with the preparation, justification and control of annual maintenance budgets.
•Ensure employee development, qualification and goals program are developed, executed, and adhered to.
•Available for scheduled and unscheduled work, performs tasks that require physical exertion and is expected to respond to off-hour call-ins. Work night shift as required during forced and planned outages.
•Works closely with the plant management team to identify major maintenance and capital improvement.
•Responsible for all planning and scheduling functions including but not limited to 3rd party equipment inspection schedules, weekly maintenance schedules, and work order schedule changes as the daily production requirements dictate.
•Supervise the maintenance staff to ensure support for planned and unplanned outages.
•Develops tools for tracking, measurement and reporting of maintenance activities.
•Optimizes work schedules for resource utilization and prioritization in alignment with Plant Management. Leads and directs the work of others, including overall performance management and time approval.
•Performs all other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
Qualifications and Skills
•A high school diploma or equivalent
•Relevant combined cycle power plant-related experience, including a minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience in field.
•Skill in communicating effectively.
•General software knowledge in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint...etc.)
Other Desirable Skills
•Experience with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) (Hexagon EAM).
•Knowledge of power plant equipment, scheduling techniques, managing variances, and work planning.
•Proven planning and scheduling experience working with warehouse, O&M, and other technical personnel involved with preventative/predictive maintenance and routine maintenance.
•Experience leading a team, as well as the proven ability to work effectively within a team environment.
•Demonstrated problem solving and decision-making skills.
•Strong organizational skills with the ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple tasks.
•Demonstrated planning capabilities and the skills to analyze and interpret data to make sound recommendations to Management.
•Strong customer focus (internal and external).
•Strong computer skills with CMMS, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation and other business and technical software used to increase personal productivity.
•Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
•Ability to develop and maintain productive relationships with both a functional and business leader, who collaborates on employee issues and decisions (including performance management, compensation, and development).
•Ability to work shifts and extra/irregular hours and to work under unusual and special conditions that can arise in a combined cycle power plant.
•Ability to pass respirator fit tests to always use respiratory protective equipment or self-contained breathing apparatus.