Technical Manager, Ravenswood

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IPSC provides operations, maintenance, management, and power support services to the US Power Generation Industry across the United States. Our team is comprised of experts from diverse backgrounds of technical fields, including power operations, engineering, asset management, as well as finance, human resources, administration, safety and environmental. With this diverse background coupled with extensive years of employee experience, IPS C provides exceptional operations, maintenance, management, and development expertise to a variety of power assets.

Job Description

IHI Power Services Corp. (IPSC) has a career opportunity for a Technical Manager at our Ravenswood Power Plant located in Long Island City, NY. The salary range for this role is $180K - $220K annualized base salary. The Technical Manager position will report to Plant Manager.

Ravenswood Generating Station is a 2,000 MW electric generating station on 28 acres located in Long Island City, Queens, NY along the East River. It consists of three steam turbine plants (1750 MWs), one GE 7FA combined cycle plant (250 MWs), Ravenswood is a component of the New York City generation supply.

Job Summary

The Technical Manager provides technical leadership and engineering oversight for power plant operations, ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant performance of generation assets. This role serves as the primary technical authority at the site and partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, and cross functional teams to drive asset reliability, continuous improvement, and long term performance.

This position is ideal for an experienced engineering leader with deep power plant knowledge who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while developing people and strengthening asset integrity.

Job Functions

Technical & Engineering Leadership

- Act as the site technical authority for plant systems, equipment performance, and engineering standards

- Maintain deep knowledge of unit characteristics, operating limits, and regulatory obligations

- Lead technical evaluations of equipment issues, failures, and performance degradation

- Own engineering documentation, drawings, calculations, and configuration management

Asset Reliability & Maintenance Strategy

- Develop and maintain maintenance and reliability strategies aligned with asset management best practices

- Lead Root Cause Analyses (RCA), incident investigations, and corrective action implementation

- Support outage planning, execution readiness, and post outage performance reviews

- Partner with Operations and Maintenance to optimize preventive, predictive, and condition based maintenance

Safety, Environmental & Regulatory Compliance

- Ensure all technical activities comply with safety standards, environmental permits, and regulatory requirements

- Provide technical support for incident management, risk management plans, and management of change

- Support environmental compliance through awareness of emissions limits and permit obligations

- Participate in audits, inspections, and self assessments as a technical subject matter expert

Projects, Change & Risk Management

- Lead or support capital and major maintenance projects, including technical scope, specifications, and commissioning

- Manage technical risk related to plant modifications and upgrades

- Ensure effective change management for all engineering and technical changes

Leadership & Collaboration

- Lead, coach, and develop engineering and technical staff

- Promote a culture of safety, technical rigor, and continuous improvement

- Collaborate cross functionally with Operations, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Security, and Corporate Engineering

Education and Experience – An equivalent combination of education, training and experience will be considered.

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

- Minimum of 10 years experience in power generation facility experience

- Experience in power plant engineering, maintenance, or technical leadership roles

- Strong working knowledge of:

- Power plant systems and balance of plant equipment

- Incident investigation and Root Cause Analysis

- Asset reliability and maintenance programs

- Contractor and outage management

- Proven leadership, communication, and problem solving skills

Preferred Qualifications:

- Professional Engineer (PE) license

- 10+ years of leadership experience, supervisory, team lead, or military leadership

- Experience with combined cycle, combustion turbine, and large thermal generation assets

- Familiarity with physical and cyber security requirements

- Experience working in regulated or compliance driven environments

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities which may be representative, but not all-inclusive of those commonly associated with this position.

- Must possess basic math skills, good verbal and written communications skills

- Proficiency with the use of hand and power tools and test instruments applicable to the electrician’s trade.

- Must know the hazards involved and the safety precautions to be practiced in the operation and maintenance of power plant equipment and machinery.

- Work within and insure strict adherence to all safety practices and procedures.

- Must be able to respond to audio alarms and variations of sound.

- Basic data entry/computer skills.

- Work as a team - Must be able to pool our knowledge and energy to work in tandem to completely understand and productively respond to all of the business challenges.

- Knowledge and experience of power plant environment

- Ability to stay current with changing technologies

- Experienced in conduit and cable installation, wiring and termination techniques

Work Environment – Environmental or atmospheric conditions commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job.

- Protective equipment such as hard hats, safety glasses, respirators, air masks, ear protection and other equipment must be worn in the performance of some duties. Work with hazardous materials may be required.

- Includes working indoors and outdoors in all weather conditions.

Physical Abilities that are commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job. The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

- Must be able to work on your feet for extensive periods, requiring stair and ladder climbing, and routinely lifting 50 pounds.

- All employees will participate in the Fitness for Duty Program. This program includes a post offer physical examination and drug screening and post-employment random drug screening. There are extensive smoking restrictions in and around the facility.

- Must be able to work in elevated areas, confined spaces and in extreme heat and cold conditions.

- Must be able to wear a full and half faced respirator

- Will be subjected to quarterly DOT controlled substance testing.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws. Certain job functions described herein may be subject to possible modification in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.

IHI Power Services, Corp., (IPSC), is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, marital status, age, sex, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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