Power Plant Project Manager, Maintenance Improvement

Job Requirements:
The successful candidate will possess, and the resume reflects, these qualifications:
- Five years in project management and/or project team leadership.
- Five years of plant commissioning, engineering, operations or maintenance in fossil-fired and/or hydroelectric production facilities.
- Two years of supervisory or generation history.
- Equipment failure diagnosis, equipment predictive maintenance, and remaining life assessment.
Knowledge of economic analysis principles and the ability to investigate complex issues, i.e., equipment failure path prediction and preventive maintenance program effectiveness, is expected.
Candidate possesses a strong customer focus and experience to achieve results:
- Leads and participates in cross-functional teams.
- Meets stakeholders expectations and effectively builds and maintains customer/client relationships.
- Candidate possesses project management, strategic thinking and negotiation skills and coordinates activities and resources.
- Plans, organizes, prioritizes, measures productivity/impact, and completes projects to achieve targets.
- Adjusts to changing conditions and business priorities to meet established timelines and priorities.
- Completes multiple projects or assignments with minimal direction, continual change, and under tight time constraints.
- Maintains a client-focused orientation and high-level accuracy.

Candidates must have good computer skills, strong written and oral communications skills and the ability to present research findings to all levels.
Overnight travel to remote power plant facility locations and other locations is routinely required.

Education:
A Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Business, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience is expected.

Preferences:
Direct, extensive experience is desired: planned, supervised and managed maintenance activities in the power plant or chemical process industry.

Experience with Condition Based Maintenance and Reliability Centered Maintenance theory, technologies, techniques and implementation is preferred.

Experience with power plant operations and maintenance (O and M) practices bench-marking and with defining and implementing O and M strategy and procedure improvements is desirable.

Typical Responsibilities:
The project manager works with staff at each Power Production Department (PPD) generating facility to assess the effectiveness of current maintenance practices (i.e., on plant safety, cost and reliability), and to formulate, pilot test and deploy strategies for maintenance improvement.

The manager performs benchmarking to better define the relationship between Southern California Edison (SCE) power plant maintenance investment and plant reliability, and how changes in SCE plant reliability translate into SCEs cost of service.

This employee works with plant personnel, equipment manufacturers and other expert parties to assess the probability and consequences of potential equipment failure modes, and to thereby manage departmental maintenance strategy, practices and procedures. Ensures maintenance resources are appropriately deployed and utilized for maximum benefit.

The project manager works with San Dimas home office staff to assist field personnel with equipment condition diagnosis and monitoring, remaining life assessment, preventative and predictive maintenance, failure root cause analysis, and overhaul planning.

The individual ensures that equipment continuous monitoring instrumentation data and equipment diagnostic test results are optimally integrated into the maintenance work order initiation, planning, scheduling and work history software protocols.

This project manager assists with annual updates to the Departments five-year capital spending plan.

He or she sponsors testimony on maintenance spending history and forecasts, and cost effectiveness, in regulatory filings (e.g., General Rate Case, ERRA).

If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume in confidence by visiting www.edisonjobs.com

Edison International is an Equal Opportunity Employer.