Team Leader, Maintenance

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Mississippi, LLC

Job Duties / Responsibilities:

• Responsible for safety, compliance, budgeting, reliability, and all other aspects of the maintenance program of the plant.
• Provides direction to maintenance personnel, schedules resources, manages staffing issues, and leads the development of direct reports to embrace strong fundamentals of operation and maintenance.
• Embraces human performance improvement initiatives and ensures plant operations/maintenance personnel comply with safe work practices, plant procedures, and efficiently operate and maintain plant equipment.
• Ranks and prioritises reliability and financial risks using data analysis and predictive maintenance information from internal and external industry sources.
• Works with Plant Asset Team Lead & Fleet Maintenance group in overseeing long‑range and detailed planning and execution of Power Generation unit outages, including management of cost, schedule and safety processes for outage scope.
• Responsible for input in preparing and planning near-term and strategic maintenance budget, supporting budget/project development and cost control for short-range work plans and long-range strategic planning.
• Prepares and manages budget in assigned area to leverage the financial process to manage deviations from the approved annual budget.
• Collaborates with Planning and Operations personnel, assigns resources to address emerging maintenance issues, and initiates and provides leadership in contract management/contractor oversight for routine and outage work.
• Staffs and manages routine, planned, emergency, and reserve outages along with assigned projects, developing schedule and budget related to routine maintenance and planned outages.
• Interfaces with other members of plant management team to drive resolution of key issues impacting business processes, budget, maintenance strategies, outage scope, schedule and costs.
• Evaluates and champions gap‑closure actions consistent with the company’s overall business strategy.
• Leads site teams in identifying and implementing maintenance strategies and funding needs for equipment processes.
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with internal and external interfaces and key strategic alliance partners, staying aware of the latest industry research to drive continuous improvement.
• Fosters a safety‑oriented culture and champions strategic vision and direction of the organization.
• Oversees, leads, and directs work‑group; hires and trains personnel.
• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, leading by example, coaching, mentoring and developing direct and indirect reports to exceed individual and company goals.
• Acts as a change agent for the plant with the daily initiative of improving morale and staff engagement.
• Leads plant efforts to ensure stakeholder expectations are met, fosters and improves stakeholder communication, and establishes and maintains an inclusive and diverse environment.
• Serves as the voice of the department, offering regular communication and updates.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum Education: High school diploma or equivalent.
• Desired Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as engineering or equivalent work experience (e.g., 10 years of Power Plant experience with at least 2 years of Maintenance Leadership experience).
• Minimum Experience: Without degree: 10 years of Power Plant experience with at least 2 years of Maintenance Leadership experience. With technical degree: 5 years of Power Plant experience in maintenance, operations or project work.
• Desired Experience: Experience with Gas Fired Steam Legacy or Combined Cycle power plants. Experience in Power plant operations at a supervisory level. Contract and project management experience. Budget management experience.

Expected Previous Leadership Roles:

• Contract/Project Manager and/or Operations or Maintenance Supervision.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge of power plant operating and maintenance practices, equipment maintenance strategies, lockout/tagout procedure and other safety procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and work effectively with contractors and outside agencies.
• Excellent verbal, written and computer communication skills.
• Ability to maintain and develop a strong, effective and safe team through leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to actively engage subordinates and other plant personnel to strive for operational and maintenance excellence.
• Proven analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• High level of personal accountability and ownership within the Operations and Maintenance policies and procedures, as well as each employee.

Safety Sensitive Position:

This position is designated as a Safety Sensitive position and is subject to mandatory pre‑employment and random drug testing.

Primary Location: Mississippi – French Camp, Mississippi.

Travel: Up to 25%.

EEO Statement:

The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Accessibility:

Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf.

Additional Responsibilities:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, alternate locations, and/or perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime for such duties.