Director, Coal and Gas Fired Boilers

Vistra

Job Location:

Irving, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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Job Summary

The Director Generation Services GPO / COAL is responsible for providing leadership strategic direction and oversight of engineering and outage support services for the coal-fired and natural gas fired boiler (Gas Plant Operations aka GPO) assets within ERCOT PJM and MISO markets. This role ensures safe reliable and compliant operations while driving performance cost efficiency and alignment with Vistra business objectives.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Provide leadership and direction for generation services supporting ERCOT PJM and MISO GPO / coal operations.

Ensure compliance with safety environmental and regulatory requirements while promoting a strong safety culture.

Drive operational excellence reliability and performance improvement initiatives across assigned assets.

Collaborate with plants all levels of leadership engineering maintenance corporate functions OEMs Contractors and various industry contacts to achieve business goals.

Manage budgets resources key alliance business partners and contractor performance to optimize cost and effectiveness.

Lead the outage support organization for the GPO / Coal fleet to meet all schedule and cost expectations for planned and unscheduled outages.

The position provides engineering analysis and options for issues factoring in safety performance reliability and market conditions.

Supports internal initiatives and teams related to safety compliance reliability and efficiency of the plants.

Leads and supports teams such as trip reduction and various centers of excellence (COEs) such as maintenance COE engineering COE OPS COE and others

Lead and support engineering studies and projects with various business partners as needed for outages upgrades and other projects at the plants.

Works cross functionally with our internal diagnostic center (Power Optimization Center - POC) technical services development construction operations supply chain asset management legal and all other organizations within Vistra as needed

Frequent extended business travel in support of meetings conferences plant outages and construction projects

Leadership and participation in both internal and industry conferences and user group forums

Education Experience & Skill Requirements

Demonstrated strong coal experience in operations maintenance and engineering.

Bachelors degree in engineering or a related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered. Additional degree license or certifications a plus.

20 years relevant experience in power generation operations maintenance or engineering specifically within coal-fired or gas-fired conventional boiler generation.

Demonstrated leadership experience managing multi-site teams and complex operations

Expertise with interpersonal skills communication analytical decision making creative problem solving outage execution and project management

Strong knowledge of regulatory compliance safety programs and industry standards.

Proficiency with MS Office suite PI Historian Maximo SAP Primavera a plus

Demonstrated history working in an interdependent organization to achieve organizational goals with team members from many different parts of the company

Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications is applicable to above skills

Key Metrics

Safety performance and incident rates.

Outage execution metrics for safety compliance schedule cost and post-outage eFOR

Plant reliability availability and forced outage rates.

Budget adherence and cost management effectiveness.

Regulatory and environmental compliance performance.

Trip reduction year over year

Job Family

Plant Operations

Company

Oak Grove Management Co LLC

Locations

Irving Texas

Texas

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