Covanta Energy
MAINTENANCE MANAGER
LOCATION
Lorton, VA
COMPANY
Covanta specializes in modern-day waste-to-energy incineration that offers a more sustainable form of waste management. Covanta’s state-of-the-art facilities have a track record for delivering industry-leading quality, innovation, and employee satisfaction.
JOB SUMMARY
The Maintenance Manager provides functional leadership and direction to the maintenance team. This position will report directly to the Facility Manager. The individual must be a proven leader who can provide vision and leadership to achieve daily, yearly and long-term asset reliability goals through application of Maintenance best practices site wide. The individual must have a good working knowledge of maintenance, reliability, mechanical integrity, and quality assurance best practices. This person must have the organizational capability to work across multiple functions, systems, and be able to communicate well with operators, mechanics, peers and leadership. They must be able to lead improvement teams, network with appropriate professional organizations and maintain strong connections to regional and corporate M&R and technical groups. The position has direct reports including Mechanics, Welders, Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians, and Storekeeper.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead in the promotion of a strong safety and environmental stewardship culture. Ensure good maintenance & reliability practices are followed. Contribute with managerial and leadership expertise to events that impact the safety, health and environmental performance of the site.
- Plan, develop, and implement new methods and procedures designed to improve operations, minimize operating costs, and effect greater utilization of labor and materials.
- Lead the selection, assignment, development, coaching and performance evaluation of the maintenance team.
- Manage Maintenance Shops comprised of both Mechanical and E&I crafts with advanced skills.
- Manage site maintenance attrition forecasting and plan for hiring.
- Develop a 5-year long-term maintenance plan for the site.
- Maintain a metric dashboard for maintenance that drives improvement and helps prioritize actions.
- Develop self, direct reports, and other leaders and subordinates.
- Develop yearly and monthly maintenance budgets and the activities to ensure alignment and achievement of budgets.
- Develop a strong cost management structure for Maintenance that identifies opportunities to improve our business and provides for short and long-term actions that reduce cost.
- Provide overall leadership and direction for the site Work Management Program (WMP) to be cost competitive by utilizing correct application of best practices.
- Support a Computer Maintenance Management System and other associated tools.
- Provide overall direction and vision for Outage Planning processes and teams that plan and coordinate the implementation shutdowns.
- Achieve the Outages budgets, scopes, and schedules.
- Drive reliability improvements and identify gaps between the reliability goals and plant performance.
- Set expectations for the reliability efforts to develop solutions to repetitive failures through root cause analysis and through preventive and predictive maintenance practices.
- Continue to implement current reliability improvement programs seeking to achieve a more proactive work management process and a stronger relation between the maintenance activities and the business’ cost performance.
- Inspect operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards.
- Confer with management, engineering, and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance problems, and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of power plant Maintenance Manager experience
- Large scale operations with multiple boilers, turbines and engines required
- Experience with planning and scheduling work orders and outages
- Must possess good knowledge of mechanical maintenance, reliability, and electrical and instrumentation including the National Electric Code and familiarity with NFPA Arc Flash safety regulations
- Engineering degree preferred
Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to diversity in our workforce. EOE/M/F/D/V