Outage Planner

Outage Planner - 12 Months

Surry Power Station - Surry, VA

Westinghouse is seeking an outage/online planner is needed for the Surry Digital I&C Project. The Digital I&C project is a 10+ year effort as part of Subsequent License Renewal (SLR) to upgrade safety and non-safety-related analog systems to digital and transform the main control room to flat panel displays and soft controls. This role works with a cross-functional team of station stakeholders, engineers, project leads, and project managers to plan and coordinate online and outage scope and scheduling and represent the project team on station planning boards.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure all projects are executed with Safety and Environmental Compliance as the primary focus of all personnel supporting his/her projects.
• Provide Project Management with current and accurate project schedules. Develop and be willing to provide recommendations to improve project schedules and project planning standards. Help coordinate work and resources with various station/department groups, and meet with vendors and supervisors, as necessary, to ensure that requirements and work needs are being addressed.
• Keep the schedules current and accurate by going to the jobs to check on their statuses
• Utilize various scheduling techniques to include Critical Path management, resource management/leveling, pert charts, cost management, etc. as requested.
• Identify requirements and conduct planning and scheduling meetings with various departments to ensure that scheduling activities are properly identified, integrated and resources leveled. Prepare, conduct, and lead project meeting discussions to communicate scope and schedule status in an organized and professional atmosphere.
• Maintain and analyze work progress and effectiveness within and in accordance with the schedule. Review compliance with project planning (capital budget) schedules, plan job steps for work execution in SAP, utilizing applicable permits in the planning process to include correct account coding (if applicable). Track purchase requisitions and deliveries if directed by the Project Manager.
• Develop reports indicating activities scheduled by shift, progress, milestone status, daily and weekly objectives, projected completion, earned value, etc. and provide Project Management progress updates and projections for management teams. Trend critical path activities. Develop and maintain standard project schedules.
• Conduct job walk downs prior to schedule development. Accountable for meeting Project Management and plant safety goals. Conduct job observations, housekeeping observations, and report hazards or other issues.
• Develop effective system processes and standards to be followed at all locations for scheduling techniques and reporting formats. Incorporate improvement techniques in future procedures and plans.

Required Qualification / Education / Experience

• Has ability to inspire trust and generate rapport with individuals from different departments
• working knowledge of key software tools and applications (e.g. Documentum, SharePoint, eSOMS, Maximo, MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint)
• Effective presentation skills
• Ability to communicate across multiple workgroups and audiences using multiple means of communication
• Ability to drive alignment around planned project scopes of work
• Detail-oriented and has excellent organization skills

Prefer 3+ years Power Station and/or large projects experience