Asset Manager

The Asset Manager-Generation

is a Master/Expert level individual contributor professional responsible for overseeing strategic management, maintenance, and optimization of all power generation key assets and assisting with asset management objectives. This role is strategic in nature with a focus on risk mitigation and long/near term strategic planning and is critical to ensuring the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of power plant assets over their entire lifecycle while contributing to annual performance and financial goals and driving conformance with industry best practices. The Asset Manager-Generation is the liaison between Asset Management, Generation Operations, Generation Services, ECPM, business planning, and financial performance functions driving data-driven decision making and optimized planning and investments.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the development and execution of strategies and Asset Management Plans for the entire lifecycle of the plant's critical assets, from procurement, installation, operation, and maintenance to end-of-life and eventual decommissioning or replacement. Utilize CMMS/EAMS data and ERP data to drive decisions and maintenance and operational activity. Assist planners and schedulers with collecting historical labor, materials, and task lists to optimize maintenance job plans.

Identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks related to asset failure, obsolescence, and compliance, ensuring that appropriate projects, maintenance activities, processes, programs, critical spares, and contingency plans are in place.

Oversee the creation and implementation of preventive maintenance strategies and schedules, ensuring assets operate at optimal performance levels and compliance with regulatory standards to extend the life of assets. This includes scope development for planned outages.

Utilize asset management systems and technology to monitor the health and performance of critical assets, identifying potential issues before they lead to costly failures or downtime. Promotes the health of the plants asset lifecycle by utilizing condition assessments for further analysis and reporting.

Develop and manage budgets, fully developed 5-year business plans, and long range OPEX/CAPEX forecasts for asset-related activities, ensuring that capital expenditures, maintenance costs, and resource allocation are aligned with business goals while maximizing operational efficiency. Create business justifications for capital projects.

Ensure that all assets comply with local, state, and federal regulations, industry standards, and safety protocols, maintaining accurate records for audits and inspections. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry standards and environmental, health, and safety regulations.

Maintain and improve asset registers, tracking performance, service histories, and key metrics for each asset. Monitor the asset hierarchy and ensure assets and maintenance plans are correctly entered into SAP with appropriate detail. Ability to build reports from quality data and performance indicators. Utilize Performance Dashboards to monitor work and key performance indicators such as PM compliance, Planning Performance, Backlog, Resource Utilization, PM:CM ratios, and data quality.

Lead or support the negotiation, management, optimization, and/or review of key contracts related to power plant operations and maintenance as required.

Lead a cross-functional team including engineers, technicians, financial analysts, and contractors, fostering collaboration and communication to meet asset management objectives. Assist with the development and execution of training and change management activities.

Implement continuous improvement initiatives related to asset management practices, technologies, and process efficiencies for all major equipment and specific component maintenance strategies, leveraging industry best practices and innovative solutions.

Qualifications

Required Education, Skills & Experience

Licenses and Certifications

Key Competencies

TECHNICAL

May perform other duties as assigned.