Manager of Planning and Outage

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About the role:

As a Manager of Maintenance Planning and Outage you will direct the personnel and functional organization that provides estimating, planning, resources, material coordinating, and outage execution in maintenance and project work. 

You will report to the Senior Technical Services Manager and be located at Ogden, UT. You will support this position 100% onsite.

Key Responsibilities:

• Direct efforts to achieve world-class excellence regarding safe work practices and safety performance

• Ensure compliance with Westinghouse Western Zirconium safety and environmental programs, policies, rules and regulations

• Responsible for development of the maintenance and project planning processes and standards.  Ensure planning standards are used by Maintenance and Project Planning functions to achieve successful, cost-effective work task and project implementation

• Coordinate planning efforts with multiple people/departments (Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Integrated Scheduling, Contractor Oversight, Major Projects, Project Management) in a manner that supports delivery of efficient work execution

• Directly manage the planning group staff

• Manage the procedures implemented by the site’s CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)

• Prepare reports on task planning status and planning department performance

• Plan ahead to prevent problems and resolve emergent ones. Analyze risks

• Manage outage preparation (Planned/Emergent/Upgrade) from start to finish, including outage schedule development, craft labor/tooling/cost planning, pre/post outage meetings, mobilization planning, execution, and close out

• Project manage onsite execution during assigned outages, ensuring safety and delivery goals are met

• Help perform failure investigations and analyses, and analyze plant and equipment forced outage data to look for trends, and make recommendations to improve availability

• Lead development of work management and outage scheduling to support efficient use of resources and to meet plant goals

• Ensure clear handover between each activity or shutdown phase

• Develop long-term outage plans, establish outage dates to minimize impact to plant operations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field

• Ten (10) years of related experience with five years in a supervisory or lead role.  Experience managing multiple projects/project managers

• Knowledge of project planning and management systems, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)

• Understanding of maintenance processes and planning required to support chemical and Zirconium manufacturing, and associated facilities equipment.

• Analyze cost and scheduling information, provide forecasts and make recommendations,

• Competent in conflict and crisis management skills

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Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being.  In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacations and Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
• Educational Reimbursement Program
• Employee Referral Program

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry’s first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

<span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities

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