Operations Supervisor Energy Jobs in Rhode Island

EDL owns and operates a global portfolio of power stations across Australia, North America, and Europe. Our vision is to be the leading global producer of sustainable distributed energy. At EDL, we are playing a key role in the world's transition from traditional energy sources to decarbonised solutions.

The Maintenance Supervisor oversees and coordinates activities of plant operations maintenance team to ensure that the plant meets performance targets and metrics. The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for ensuring achievement of key operating objectives in the areas of employee safety, employee relations, profitability, unit availability, efficiency, and reliability in full compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, policies, procedures and agreements.  

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Directly responsible for the results and supervision of plant maintenance related activities and objectives. Supervision includes hiring, scheduling, directing, performance management, training and other related issues. 
• Assisting in preparing and submitting the budget for approval and setting department goals as aligned with targets/objectives established by the facility's leadership team.
• Provide oversight of and direction for all mission critical programs and processes such as management of overall performance, outages, projects, and planning as well as asset integrity and budgeting controls.
• Ensure the facility is operated and maintained in accordance with all environmental permits and regulations including local and federal requirements.
• Be familiar with all permit requirements and advise senior management on environmental compliance issues and the impact of administrative decisions on regulatory compliance. 
• Manage the facility maintenance in a proactive manner utilizing technology and various systems to ensure condition-based/predictive maintenance, corrective maintenance and CMMS so as to optimize operations and maintenance programs and minimize equipment breakdowns and unscheduled outage events. 
• Plan and execute planned and forced outages on budget and on time.
• Manage all warehouse and inventory activities ensuring inventory levels are maintained to ensure plant maintenance is effective.
• Must be able to quickly respond/manage unexpected equipment failures or performance issues through collaboration with plant management, employees and contractors.
• Manage the selection, qualification and activities of consultants, vendors, contracted labor, including planning/scheduling their work, materials and organization/coordination for optimal results and compliance for the facility to ensure conformance with good sound engineering practices.
• Develops maintenance work schedules to optimize staffing levels, makes work assignments, and monitors progress to improve work process efficiency. 
• Provides timely status reports to management and assist in revising business plans to meet annual budgets. 
• Daily communications and coordination with plant staff including managers and supervisors to ensure safety and facility reliability. 
• Assist in accident investigations, injuries or property damage claims. 
• Monitors operational efficiency and effectiveness.  Assesses progress and redirects activities as necessary. 
• Develop organizational culture that encourages and rewards involvement, innovative thinking, adaptation to change, responsible risk taking, and continuous improvement by all team members.
• Promote productivity and teamwork with open communications, timely decision making, and use of leadership skills to set high standards of performance, while giving direction to achieve these performance targets.
• Establish responsibilities, goals and expectations for your team.      Monitor and provide timely feedback to employees to ensure that they are focused on achieving objectives which support facility goals.
• Responds to employee inquiries, requests, or complaints to reach an effective resolution. This may entail coordinating with and working through other departments to resolve issues.
• Attend various meetings and provide relevant input in representing plant issues, needs and concerns along with any recommendations.
• Assist with the duties and responsibilities of the Plant Manager during routine or extended absences.
• The above is a general overview of duties and responsibilities, which is not meant to be all inclusive and subject to change as the facility's needs evolve and change.

Safety Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the effective implementation of Company Health and Safety Policy and Procedures.
• Works directly with Engineering, Maintenance and Operations Lead to manage, lead, develop, implement, monitor, review and recommend safety first performance enhancements, while complying with all internal and external requirements.
• Understands, implements, and responsible for a safety first attitude with all employees, contractors and community.  
• Assist in the event of incidents and accidents, according to Company policies and procedures.  Root cause analysis and timely follow-up reporting to minimize incidents and eliminate reoccurrence.

Qualifications and Experience

• Strong Leadership and team-work skills while having the ability to work independently with minimal direct supervision. 
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Discipline strongly preferred
• In lieu of a degree, 10+ years of power facility operations experience , gas processing, landfill gas to electric facilities other industrial type industry relevant to electrical generation systems
• Highly desired: Solar - Taurus 60 Gas Turbine or combined cycle experience

Working Environment

While performing the duties of the Maintenance Supervisor, an individual is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.  The employee is also regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The individual is required to sit, concentrate, and focus on detailed specifications for lengthy periods of time. The Maintenance Supervisor may be required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, with the ability to view computer monitors and fine print, such as detailed equipment specifications and legal contracts, for lengthy periods of time.

EDL is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

EDL owns and operates a global portfolio of power stations in Australia, North America and Europe. Our vision is to be the leading global producer of sustainable distributed energy. At EDL, we are playing a key role in the world's transition from traditional energy sources to decarbonised solutions.