Powerhouse Outage Planner

Opportunity Profile

Location: South Carolina

Position Title: Powerhouse Outage Planner

The Opportunity:
This is a unique opportunity to step into a highly visible role within a critical utility operation and make an immediate impact on plant reliability, maintenance execution, and operational performance. The position has become available due to the retirement of a long-tenured incumbent with nearly four decades of experience, creating a rare opportunity to inherit significant responsibility and influence within the Powerhouse organization.

The Powerhouse Outage Planner serves as a key contributor to the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of the facility by developing and coordinating maintenance outage plans for essential Powerhouse equipment and systems. Success in this role directly impacts equipment reliability, outage effectiveness, production continuity, and overall plant performance.

The organization is seeking an individual who brings strong Powerhouse or industrial utility experience and understands the complexities of boilers, turbines, steam systems, and related equipment. While planning expertise is valuable, the company views deep technical knowledge of Powerhouse operations as especially important. The ideal candidate will leverage that expertise to coordinate labor, materials, contractors, and maintenance activities while driving continuous improvement initiatives and supporting long-term asset reliability strategies.

This position offers the opportunity to work alongside experienced maintenance, operations, reliability, and engineering professionals while becoming a trusted resource within a critical area of the operation. The successful candidate will play a meaningful role in outage preparation, execution, and post-outage analysis, helping ensure the facility continues to operate safely and efficiently.

The Company:
Our client is a large industrial manufacturing organization where reliability, safety, and operational excellence are essential to business success. The organization values strong maintenance practices, proactive planning, and collaboration across operations, maintenance, engineering, and reliability groups.

The Powerhouse functions as a mission-critical component of the operation, requiring well-coordinated maintenance activities and outage planning to support production objectives. The company provides opportunities for professional development, works with highly skilled maintenance and operations personnel, and offers long-term career growth within a stable industrial environment.

Employees are given the opportunity to make a direct impact on facility performance while contributing to an organization focused on reliability, continuous improvement, and operational effectiveness.

The Boss:
This position reports to the Powerhouse Planning Supervisor/Area Operations Coordinator. The successful candidate will work closely with experienced planning professionals, Powerhouse leadership, maintenance supervisors, operations teams, reliability personnel, and engineering resources.

The leadership team values technical knowledge, collaboration, accountability, and effective execution. This position offers significant visibility within the operation and the opportunity to work directly with decision-makers who influence maintenance strategy, outage execution, and plant reliability.

The Position:
The Powerhouse Outage Planner is responsible for planning and coordinating maintenance outages and shutdown activities within the Powerhouse. The role requires the development of detailed work plans, coordination of resources and contractors, procurement support, scheduling oversight, and collaboration with multiple stakeholders to ensure safe and efficient outage execution.

The position serves as a critical link between operations, maintenance, engineering teams, reliability personnel, and contractors to ensure work is completed effectively while minimizing downtime and maximizing equipment performance.

Essential Functions (Other duties may be assigned):

• Develop detailed outage and shutdown plans for Powerhouse equipment and systems.
• Coordinate labor, materials, tools, contractors, and support resources required for outage execution.
• Build and maintain preventative maintenance job plans and task lists.
• Review maintenance work requests and convert approved work into executable plans.
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, engineering, and reliability teams to establish outage priorities.
• Ensure all planned work complies with company safety standards and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate procurement of materials and services needed to support outage activities.
• Track outage schedules, milestones, and critical-path activities.
• Analyze completed outages and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Support equipment reliability initiatives and long-term asset management strategies.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and planning documentation.
• Participate in outage preparation meetings, pre-job reviews, and post-outage evaluations.

Qualifications:

• Strong Powerhouse, utility plant, boiler, turbine, or heavy industrial maintenance background.
• Solid understanding of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance practices.
• Experience with boilers, turbines, steam systems, utility equipment, or similar industrial assets.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, schematics, and equipment documentation.
• Experience coordinating maintenance activities during outages, shutdowns, or major projects.
• Strong planning, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Proficiency with CMMS systems and Microsoft Office applications.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and resources in a fast-paced industrial environment.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of five years of experience in Powerhouse operations, utility generation, industrial maintenance, or a closely related industrial environment.
• Experience working with boilers, turbines, steam systems, utility equipment, or related systems required.
• Previous maintenance planning or scheduling experience preferred.
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related field preferred.
• Experience in pulp and paper, utility generation, chemical processing, steel, mining, or other heavy industrial environments preferred.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification preferred.
• Experience leading contractors and outage teams preferred.
• Knowledge of SAP, Maximo, or similar maintenance management systems preferred.

Competencies:

• Technical expertise in Powerhouse systems and equipment.
• Outage planning and coordination.
• Maintenance and reliability knowledge.
• Project organization and execution.
• Resource allocation and scheduling.
• Contractor coordination.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Safety leadership and compliance awareness.
• Communication and relationship building.
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Attention to detail and documentation discipline.

Work Environment:

• Industrial manufacturing and Powerhouse environment.
• Combination of office-based planning responsibilities and field verification activities.
• Frequent interaction with operations personnel, maintenance craftspeople, contractors, leadership teams, reliability groups, and engineering resources.
• Occasional after-hours support and outage-related work may be required.
• Exposure to active industrial equipment and manufacturing operations.

Compensation:

The company offers a competitive compensation package that includes base salary, performance-based incentive opportunities, comprehensive benefits, retirement savings programs, paid time off, insurance coverage, and professional development opportunities. Compensation will be commensurate with experience, technical expertise, and relevant industry background.