Senior Manager Plant - NorthStar Clean Energy

NorthStar Clean Energy decarbonizes the economy by providing clean energy and carbon management solutions to utility, municipal, commercial, and industrial customers enabling them to meet their sustainability and business goals. Additionally, we own and operate natural gas assets throughout the United States. To learn more about NorthStar Clean Energy, please visit www.northstarcleanenergy.com.

This position is with NorthStar Clean Energy, a CMS Energy company, and is not a position of employment with Consumers Energy.

Located in the Dort-Carpenter Industrial Center near Flint, Mich., Genesee Power Station is a renewable energy facility that burns a variety of biomass materials that would otherwise be landfilled, including: tree trimmings, land-clearing residue, construction debris, pallets, spools and other clean industrial wood wastes from furniture, automotive and other manufacturers, along with municipalities and tree service companies. The plant generates steam with a single conventional ABB Combustion Engineering VU-40 hydra grate boiler. Particulates are removed from the flue gas stream by a multi-cyclone and an electrostatic precipitator. Steam is converted to electricity using an ABB single-flow condensing turbine coupled to an ABB synchronous generator. The electric output is sold pursuant to a long-term power purchase agreement with Consumers Energy. With its operating office in Flint, Michigan and wood collection centers in Macomb and Novi, Michigan, NorthStar Clean Energy affiliate Mid-Michigan Recycling procures wood waste used at the facility. Commercial operation began in 1995.

The Senior Plant Manager directs all operations and maintenance activities of the power plant. Possess thorough knowledge and understanding of power plant operations and maintenance processes. Proactively monitor and enhance plant production and equipment performance and efficiency and maintain plant reliability. Responsible for reliability, production, safety, compliance, employee development, quality and lean management, and financial performance. Holds management responsibility to ensure a safe production environment that operates within all applicable regulatory compliance requirements, including environmental operating permits, NERC reliability standards, Sarbanes-Oxley processes, and company policies.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Frequently monitors operations for safety and efficiency; maintains regular field presence ensure normal and safe operating conditions. Identify abnormalities with power production equipment or processes. Ability to manage multiple priorities* -effective prioritization of competing issues, recognizing relevant constraints and opportunities

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Position Requirements:

+ [OR] Associate degree in Operations Management, Business, Engineering, or related discipline with a minimum of nine (9) years of applicable experience + [OR] High School Diploma with a minimum of eleven (11) years of applicable experience

Working Conditions:

Why should you join our team?

At NorthStar Clean Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We're a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose: world class performance delivering hometown service.

What we offer:

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

We, at NorthStar Clean Energy, value Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. It is part of our DNA. We treat our employees with respect, we treat each other fairly and we value the opinions of others. We are passionate about building and nurturing an environment where everyone feels included. We don’t discriminate. We seek to learn about each other and better understand our unique differences. Our uniqueness makes us authentic. We create safe spaces where everyone can be who they truly are. We invite difficult conversations and uncomfortable topics. We value diverse perspectives; this is what makes us great together. We harbor an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. Our Employee Resource Groups, Women’s Advisory Panel (WAP), Women’s in Energy (WE), Minority Advisory Panel (MAP), Pride Alliance of Consumers Energy (PACE), GENERGY, capable, Interfaith and Veterans Advisory Panel (VAP) are key enablers to living the values of our company culture: Caring, Empowered, Deliberate, Agility, and Ownership.

All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

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