Discipline Scheduler
Berwick, PA - USA
Job Summary
The Discipline Scheduler supports the Supervisor Outage Planning & Scheduling through the detailed development coordination maintenance revision and analysis of outage and non-outage schedules for assigned disciplines. This role integrates maintenance surveillance corrective elective and modification-related work into executable schedules that support safe compliant and efficient plant operation while balancing risk management equipment reliability ALARA considerations equipment out-of-service time training and qualifications and resource utilization.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop maintain and update detailed logic-tied resource-loaded schedules for assigned outage and online work activities.
- Integrate surveillance preventive repetitive corrective elective and modification-related work into executable schedules consistent with approved scope and station priorities.
- Build and maintain schedule logic work windows milestones constraints and activity sequencing in Primavera P6 or other approved scheduling tools.
- Coordinate with planners engineers maintenance operations projects radiation protection supply chain and vendor representatives to ensure schedule accuracy and cross-functional alignment.
- Review work orders task lists durations manpower estimates prerequisites and implementation assumptions to support schedule credibility and execution readiness.
- Validate and maintain resource loading for assigned schedules and support development of manpower curves shift strategies and work execution assumptions.
- Identify schedule conflicts interface risks bottlenecks and resource constraints; elevate concerns and recommend solutions to support efficient execution.
- Track and communicate known schedule restraints including material engineering procedure walkdown vendor clearance approval and field condition impacts.
- Support development and maintenance of outage restraint lists milestone schedules readiness trackers and other schedule governance tools for assigned disciplines.
- Update schedules during outage execution to reflect actual work progress emergent scope revised priorities changes in logic and updated resource needs.
- Support daily and shiftly schedule turnover by documenting changes communicating impacts and maintaining current schedule status for station stakeholders.
- Perform schedule analysis to support path management recovery planning contingency development and decision-making during outage and non-outage periods.
- Support integrated schedule reviews readiness reviews risk reviews outage status meetings and other assigned scheduling forums.
- Ensure assigned schedules reflect Technical Specification constraints shutdown risk expectations ALARA considerations training and qualification needs and station scheduling standards.
- Participate in outage critiques self-assessments corrective action reviews and lessons learned activities to support continuous improvement.
- Perform additional duties as assigned including Emergency Response Organization and execution assignments for which qualified.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in engineering Science Business or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in outage planning outage scheduling work management project controls maintenance planning or a similar role in nuclear generation or a comparably regulated heavy industrial environment.
- Working knowledge of nuclear plant operations outage execution work management processes and schedule governance.
- Working knowledge of Technical Specifications shutdown risk management ALARA considerations and station procedures applicable to outage and online schedule development.
- Proficiency with Primavera P6 including development and maintenance of logic-tied schedules schedule analysis schedule updating and reporting.
- Working knowledge of plant work management systems such as NIMS or equivalent computerized maintenance/work management platforms.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills analytical and problem-solving ability and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to support extended hours during outage execution and perform emergency response duties as qualified and assigned.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting refueling forced or maintenance outages in a commercial nuclear generating station.
- Experience updating integrated schedules during outage execution and supporting emergent work integration schedule recovery and contingency planning.
- Experience coordinating schedule interfaces with maintenance engineering operations projects vendors and outage support organizations.
- Plant-specific qualification certification or equivalent demonstrated nuclear operations maintenance planning or scheduling experience.
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About Company
Talen Energy is a leading independent power producer and infrastructure company focused on safe, reliable power generation while delivering the most value per megawatt of energy we produce.