Sr. Outage Cycle Manager
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Vistra is hiring a Sr. Outage Cycle Manager. The Sr. Outage Cycle Manager is responsible for the cost-effective management of Outage Management departments. This role involves planning and scheduling refueling and forced outages, coordinating efforts across various work, support, and engineering organizations to maintain Vistra nuclear equipment readiness. The manager ensures safe generation obligations while carefully managing risk.
Key focus areas include Manage stations preparation, planning, and execution of refueling and forced outages, Manage outage milestones and influence stakeholders to complete preparation activities on time, and Manage station’s outage schedule development to ensure integrated and coordinated activities.
Successful candidates bring High School Diploma/GED, Minimum 8 Years Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance Experience, and SRO License Or Certification. Important skills include Managing Outage Milestones, Outage Schedule Development, Lean Techniques, Continuous Improvement Processes, Industry Benchmarking, and Peer Group Participation. Preferred (not required): Project Management and Scheduling.
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Job Summary
This position is responsible for managing the Outage Management departments in a cost-effective business environment. Plan and schedule for both refueling outages and forced outages. These plans and schedules coordinate the efforts of the various work, support, and engineering organizations as required to effectively maintain Vistra nuclear equipment in a high state of readiness. Safely support generation obligation while carefully managing risk.
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Key Accountabilities
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Manages the stations preparation, planning, and execution of refueling and forced outages.
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Manages outage milestones and influences station and external stakeholders to complete preparation activities on time and with quality.
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Manages the station’s outage schedule development to ensure outage activities are integrated and coordinated in a plan that maintains the highest level of personnel, radiological, nuclear and equipment safety to execute short duration effective refueling outages.
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Employing lean techniques in continuous improvement processes to ensure each area of responsibility is constantly improving the associated processes and adding to the value of the plant, people, processes and equipment.
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Aggressively participate in industry benchmarking / peer groups to ensure the station remains a top decile performer in outage execution as compared to similar design plants.
Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements
·High school diploma/GED equivalent required
·Minimum of 8 years -experience in Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance, Operations or Work Management
·SRO License or Certification required
·Project Management / Scheduling experience is highly desired
Key Metrics
·Safe and Reliable plant operation as evidenced by low-risk profiles, lack of nuclear safety, personnel safety or radiological safety events and meeting or exceeding top decile generation profiles.
·Outage work completed with low percentage of rejected or rescheduled work and with minimum unplanned safety system unavailability and within planned outage duration.
·Drive Station performance to top decile as measured by INPO.
·Set performance standards and hold the station and vendors accountable for outage goals.
Job Family
Plant Operations
Company
Vistra Nuclear Operations Company
Locations
Shippingport, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, that provides essential power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine.
Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S., with a capacity of approximately 41,000 megawatts, or enough to power 20 million homes, operating in all of the major competitive wholesale markets in the country. Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation and expansion with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability, powered by a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company continues to grow its zero-carbon resources, operating the second-largest fleet of competitive nuclear power plants in the country, substantial battery energy storage capacity, and a growing number of solar facilities.
Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and takes an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail, offering solutions to meet customers’ needs, including more than 50 renewable energy plans. Through its family of retail brands, Vistra serves approximately 5 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers.
As a leader in the responsible transformation of the country’s energy supply, Vistra has made significant progress towards its 2030 and 2050 targets. The company has committed to a 60% reduction of Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, as compared to our 2010 baseline, and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, assuming necessary technological advancements and public policy incentives are achieved. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company’s sustainability report at https://vistracorp.com/sustainability/ .
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It is the policy of the Company to comply with all employment laws and to afford equal employment opportunity to individuals in all aspects of employment, including in selection for job opportunities, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service, protected veteran status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local laws.
If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance submitting an application or would like to request an accommodation, please email us at [email protected] to make a request.
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