Mgr Outage

JOB TITLE: Manager Outage
DEPARTMENT: Work Management
LOCATION: Burlington, KS
PAY RANGE: 16D - $124,500 -$207,500

POSITION SUMMARY
This position provides overall oversight of the refueling and forced outage preparation and implementation, develops and maintains the long-range refueling outage plan, develops departmental and outage budgets, and maintains applicable procedures.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide oversight of the overall outage preparation and implementation for the station.
• Develop, maintain, and report on the milestone schedule and associated performance indicators.
• Assign High Impact Team leaders and members of the Outage Planning Group.
• Assign the outage control center team including appropriate approval from station management.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of the forced outage schedule for the station.
• Oversee the outage and forced outage report preparation and distribution.
• Manage the outage critique database and resolutions.
• Develop and maintain the long-range refueling outage plan which includes scope documents, Level 1 schedules with estimated durations, dose estimates, and budget estimates.
• Defines major work windows and critical path. Coordinates horizontal and vertical schedule reviews. Ensures schedule risk assessments are completed.
• Develop and maintain the annual budget for the outage group, and the refueling outage budget, including presenting the budget for approval.
• Maintain procedures, desktop instructions, and business rules controlled by the outage group.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.
  

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:
This position requires one of the following:

• A bachelor's degree in a technical field and eight years of nuclear power plant experience
• A Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) license and eight years of nuclear power plant experience
• A high school diploma or GED equivalent and 14 years of nuclear power plant experience

Nuclear power plant experience includes work in operations, maintenance, engineering, work management, or radiation protection/chemistry.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
Previous SRO license or certification preferred.

COGNITIVE SKILLS (language, mathematics, reasoning):

• This position requires the ability to: read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents; respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community; write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format; effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
• This position requires the ability to: define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

VISION:
This position has no special vision requirements.

NOISE:
This position requires the ability to work in a quiet environment (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic, library, private office).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• This position requires good written and oral communication skills, the ability handle multiple priorities, and must possess leadership qualities.
• This position requires a satisfactory work record including good attendance.
  

Evergy has a clear mission - To empower a better future. Evergy chooses to live this mission by valuing People First. We know that to lead the responsible energy transition and provide affordable, reliable, and sustainable service to our customers and communities, we need a team with a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We are committed to building a team where everyone - regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status - has a voice and can bring their best every day. Evergy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Disclaimer: The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.