Assistant Plant Manager

At PIC Group, Inc., our emphasis is on excellence. We recruit the strongest candidates in the power generation industry. As a global service provider, we continually seek talented individuals.

Title: Assistant Plant Manager

Position Type: Direct Hire

Location: Toledo, Ohio

Reports to: Plant Manager

Status: Exempt

Job Summary:

PIC Group has an excellent opportunity for an experienced Assistant Plant Manager for a 10MW Combined Heat Power (CHP) facility in Ohio. The Assistant Plant Manager reports directly to the Plant Manager, utilizing their technical expertise, discretion, and judgment within established policies, procedures, and best practices. The Assistant Plant Manager is an integral part of the site management team, offering proactive leadership to reinforce our client's core values of Safety, Reliability, Efficiency, and Responsibility to continuously improve and develop employee culture.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains a strong safety culture. Complies with all site safety and environmental requirements and procedures. Identifies safety hazards and takes corrective actions as necessary.

• Assists with the development of and ensures that all site safety requirements and procedures are properly implemented, consistently observed and corrective actions are initiated when applicable.

• Develops, implements, and manages consistent plant operating philosophies and best practices to maximize plant availability, efficiency, and productivity.

• Ensures Contractors comply with all On-Site Business Unit policies, procedures, and Safety requirements.

• Constantly reviews and improves operational processes and ensures that operating personnel are properly trained and adhere to established policies, procedures, and standards.

• Manages the O&M Technicians and Skilled Trades to ensure safe and efficient operation and maintenance of the plant while actively managing schedules to minimize overtime and comply with administrative guidelines.

• Establishes, reviews, and modifies all predictive/preventive maintenance requirements programmed into the maintenance management system in alignment with maintenance strategy.

• Develops performance goals and reviews in a comprehensive, open, and objective manner to align employee accountabilities and conduct with operational processes in accordance with administrative guidelines.

• Investigates operating abnormalities and incidents to improve equipment availability and performance and to minimize maintenance requirements.

• Prepares necessary plant operation reports in a timely manner and investigates all forced outages, reporting them through SharePoint.

• In collaboration with Plant Manager, prepares and continually evaluates the operating department's budgets and/or makes recommendations to the Plant Manager relative to optimization of operations and maintenance costs.

• Assists with maintenance engineering evaluations and troubleshooting of equipment abnormalities

Maintains a consistent and effective level of communication with Plant Manager, Administrative staff, O&M Technicians and Skilled Trades on shift.

• Assist the Plant Manager with project management of all planned outage activities, including long term planning for capital improvements.

• In collaboration with the Plant Manager, drives continuous improvement of established metrics on the plant huddle board. Continually stretching goals toward the plants True North.

• Lead/support development of plant personnel in skillsets, equipment/system knowledge and solving critical operational concerns.

• Support management of change process to ensure traceability and collaboration on execution.

• Lead problem solving activities as well as coach and mentor the team.

• Assures proper staffing, scheduling, orientation, and training of the plant staff, and also manages compliance with all company policies and procedures.

• Supports recruiting, interviews, and assigns operations and maintenance employment candidates.

Job Requirements:

• Thorough, demonstrated understanding of plant operations and maintenance, with strong knowledge of generating equipment, boilers, and water treatment processes

• Ability to analyze and improve the overall operations business processes.

• Proven planning and scheduling experience in working with O&M, and other technical personnel involved with preventative/predictive maintenance and corrective maintenance.

• Solid knowledge of plant engineering and plant maintenance functions and how they relate to operations.

• Experience with accounting practices as it relates to analyzing cost impacts to budget.

• Demonstrated skill in planning, coordinating, and directing varied programs and tasks directly affecting the overall plant operation.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Ability to work shifts and extra/irregular hours when needed.

Physical Requirements:

• Duties require walking, standing for extended periods of time, crawling, stooping, sitting, climbing vertical and inclined ladders and stairs, and lifting and carrying up to 50 lbs. Exposure to extreme heat and cold.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• The frequent use of protective equipment (i.e., hard hats, safety glasses, air masks, ear protection, etc.) may be required.

Education / Experience:

• A high school diploma or GED
• While not required, advanced consideration will be given to applicants with an Associate or Bachelor Degree.
• 5+ years of professional work experience in power plant facilities, or utilities, maintenance or operations management.

PIC Group, Inc. offers competitive wages and benefits. We seek out and employ talented individuals who meet the qualifications for each position. Due to the large number of responses we receive to our postings, only those applicants with the required experience and qualifications will be contacted. PIC Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.