Introduction
Atura Power is the largest fleet of combined cycle power plants in Ontario. Our facilities are located across the province including Napanee, Halton Hills, Toronto, and Windsor. This position is located at Napanee Generating Station (NGS), in Napanee, Ontario. Guided by our values, we are inclusive, we work safely, we are flexible, we look for ways to do things better, we always act with integrity.
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Job description
The Maintenance Manager at NGS is primarily responsible for overseeing all aspects of the maintenance program to ensure safe, compliant and reliable plant operations, troubleshooting and turnarounds. The capacity rating of this 2 on 1 combined cycle plant is approximately 900 MW. This role is also responsible for overseeing the NGS Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).
The Maintenance Manager will report to the Plant Manager and will lead a team consisting of Mechanical Technicians, Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians, and a Planner. This role requires availability after normal working hours and weekends, as needed.
Responsibilities
As the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible to:
- Provide effective leadership and direction to continuously improve your teams’ business performance in terms of health, safety and environment, compliance, reliability, efficiency, productivity, and plant availability
- Ensure all documentation, reports, and records are maintained and updated in compliance with federal, provincial, and local regulatory requirements and company policies/procedures pertaining to maintenance; including, but not limited to, NERC, TSSA, MECP, ECC, and the IESO.
- Understand and manage facility risks, reliability, availability, and performance
- Understand and incorporate the commercial contracts and obligations of the facility into the maintenance strategies and plans
- Effectively manage all resources, including people, finances, materials, and time to ensure maximum efficiency in planning, forecasting, implementation, and plant availability including establishing and maintaining appropriate staff capability for the maintenance function
- Develop and foster an environment which actively enables and encourages employee innovation, continuous improvement, and commitment to operational excellence
- Develop, execute, and maintain the maintenance program to ensure the facility is available to generate electricity when dispatched. The maintenance program will include short and long-range plans
- Develop, execute, and maintain a contract services strategy that is coordinated with the internal resources and meets planned and unplanned maintenance requirements
- Manage O&M budget development and forecasting to achieve short & long-term maintenance objectives and site performance goals for safety, availability, and reliability
- Participate in station business planning process
- Manage and coordinate emergency response with a requirement to attend the plant during emergency and outage situations
- Manage the Health, Safety, and development of staff
Within the role, the Maintenance Manager will be expected to:
- Model and hold team members accountable to model Atura’s values
- Build and develop a strong, competent, proactive, and engaged team
- Develop individual training plans for your team members
- Provide your team with excellent performance feedback, training, appropriate rewards, recognition, and coaching
- Ensure that company resources are effectively utilized to improve reliability and availability of our facilities and to support regional operations
- Manage and coordinate emergency response with a requirement to be on call to respond to emergency and outage situations
- Contribute to department and companywide objectives and initiatives
- Work collaboratively with Operations in activities such as outage scheduling, work planning and troubleshooting plant issues
- Implement and execute the work management process. This is done through the use of Maximo for preventive and corrective work order tracking and completion
- Plan the maintenance of the facility to support its ongoing operation consistent with the commercial objectives, reliability objectives, and safety requirements. Review of integrity plans and operational history, along with current or lingering operational issues help develop the maintenance plan
- Maintain the facility through the management of the maintenance team and contracted services as appropriate. Manage the planning, scheduling and execution of maintenance work and Plant outages to meet scope, schedule, and cost objectives
- Detailed planning of the bi-annual outages to execute the maintenance plan and repairs required in the plant. Work collaboratively Detailed scheduling, assigning of job leads, and work duties, contracting resources as required, reviewing outage scope vs budget and plans and writing the pre and post outage reports
- Work collaboratively with peers and support functions across the Atura fleet and business.
- Establish and manage maintenance contracts to meet all of the Plant’s anticipated needs. Maintain relations with contractors. Manage execution of contracted work on site. Ensure compliance of contractors with Health, Safety and Environment programs and legal requirements
- Procurement functions including PO management within the bounds of accountability.
- Establish spare parts requirements, order appropriate spares, and manage spare parts inventory
As a member of the NGS Management Team, you will be required to:
- Work collaboratively to establish the department, site and team strategies, goals, and business plan
- Commit to the execution of the department’s key priorities of excellence in the areas of Safety, Compliance, Reliability, Productivity and Culture
- Represent the company and foster critical partnerships both internally and externally
- Manage in a unionized environment
- May be involved in PWU union contract negotiations as a management representative
- Be a champion for continuous improvement and change management especially as it relates to work management processes
Education, Qualifications and Experience
- Relevant Red Seal trade certification such as Mechanical/Electrical/Instrumentation, First Class Power Engineer, Professional Engineer, or a combination of the preceding certifications
- Hands-on experience in maintenance of power plants
- Excellent grasp of the maintenance planning and execution requirements of a state of the art combined cycle power plant and a proven ability to carry them out effectively
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills combined with the ability to utilize those skills during interactions with peers, employees, internal and external customers, and community groups
- Experience with conflict resolution and problem-solving tools and processes
- Experience in effective resource allocation and utilization in the financial, people and procurement areas
- Demonstrated leadership in the health, safety, and environment, change management, employee development, performance management, and team building areas
- 7 or more years of related power plant experience is preferred
- Supervisory experience in a unionized environment would be considered an asset
*This position requires you to:
- Have and maintain a valid Driver's License
- Provide a criminal background check for employment
- Travel occasionally and meet requirements including appropriate documentation necessary to travel internationally on business for training, meetings and attending conferences
Atura Power strives to embody the values of respect, collaboration, and diversity, and has a strong commitment to employment equity. The diversity of our workforce is at the core of our innovation and creativity. Atura Power seeks qualified candidates who share our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. While all qualified candidates are invited to apply, we particularly welcome applications from women, persons with disabilities, First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, members of visible minorities, and LGBTQ+ persons.
Atura Power offers competitive wages, and benefits. Our employees are company, community and environmentally focused.
Atura Power welcomes and encourages applications from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in the selection process. If you require an accommodation, please email us at www.aturapower.com/contact-us/
