Site Manager - AOC

Senior Site Manager, Colstrip AOC

Talen Energy Colstrip Power Plant – Colstrip, Montana

Talen Energy is seeking a Senior Site Manager – Colstrip Administrative Order on Consent (AOC) to take ownership of a large, complex remediation project, including stakeholder and contractor management and team development. Specific experience with Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) management, removal, transport, and remediation is preferred. Other industrial, large-scale project work and remediation experience will be considered. The Senior Site Manager will lead an onsite CCR Operations Team, environmental and engineering consultants, and various other contractors tasked specifically with onsite CCR management, construction activities, water management and wastewater treatment. The base work location will be the Colstrip Steam Electric Station located in Colstrip, Montana.

Primary Responsibilities:

+ Produce or evolve strategies and plans to complete work, maintain compliance and adhere to the approved budget. + Take ownership of business outcomes and leverage resources – internal and external – as required to meet objectives.

+ Develop and coordinate individual workloads, assignments, and deliverables, as required. + Lead and execute employee development activities in consultation with HR, as required.

+ Develop or maintain processes to ensure compliance.

+ Manage technical and financial bid evaluations and the contractor selection, including decision-making and the issuance of Contracts and Purchase Orders. + Prepare bid evaluations including financial, technical and other aspects.

+ Ensure up-front alignment is achieved to prevent field rework.

+ Participate in monthly accrual and reforecasting processes, in collaboration with AOC staff and Talen Financial.

+ Lead process to update annually AOC cost tables.

- Obtain information as required from staff, consultants, SMEs and contractors to ensure accuracy. + Coordinate with Accounting to ensure Financial Assurance calculations are completed on-time and are accurate. + Work with MDEQ on the annual and 5-year Financial Assurance review and approval. + Coordinate with Talen Treasury to ensure bonds are prepared and submitted to MDEQ on time. + Coordinate with the Colstrip Owner’s to ensure their bond requirements are known, and they have the current status of Financial Assurance work.

+ Represent AOC activities at monthly owner meetings, and address questions posed by owners regarding AOC, CCR, remediation and/or water activities and spend.

+ Supervise internal employees and contractors involved with treatment system operations and repair, system compliance sampling, groundwater monitoring and analysis, and well-gauging and sampling. + Ensure all groundwater reporting requirements are met.

+ This includes information for regulatory requests, decision-making, budgeting and reporting.

Candidate Qualifications:

Candidates must possess strong leadership and execution skills, and technical and managerial savviness, to own the business of AOC compliance and Colstrip and the capabilities to manage a team and large, complex projects. The ability to manage multiple contractors, consultants and stakeholders in both onsite and remote roles autonomously is key to success. The Talen Montana AOC projects include critical regulatory and operational timelines and financial and regulatory commitments that must be met and are material for multiple organizations.

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