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Summary:

Provides leadership, supervision and direction to nuclear maintenance personnel performing periodic or corrective station maintenance. To ensure the plant is maintained safely during all modes of operation such that the expectations of regulators, management and customers are met. Build, train, and maintain a team of nuclear maintenance professionals able to meet these demands within guidelines and regulations that apply to the maintenance of a nuclear generation facility. Ensure personal safety is maintained through vigilant observation of all applicable safety procedures and guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Provides supervision and direction to personnel performing maintenance and repairs to mechanical station equipment.

• Provides guidance to the process of building a work schedule as it relates to their assigned systems and available resources (during Inage and Outage periods).

• Aids the planning process when work tasks are identified for their assigned team.

• Works with various other associated departments to make task completion and 100% schedule success a reality.

• Assigns work to qualified nuclear maintenance personnel in accordance with applicable training directives and guidelines.

• Monitors and assesses work progression as necessary to assure good work quality and personnel safety are maintained.

• Works with Technical Support and Engineering staff to solve various problems that are beyond the scope of the maintenance team.

• Reviews all work for compliance with station directives and guidelines to ensure QA, Post Maintenance Testing, Mod and procedural requirements have been met prior to returning equipment to service.

• Conducts weekly briefings and TAM meetings to discuss current safety topics and work/team-related items of importance.

• Provides feedback to OPS, Work Control and Maintenance Coordinators to keep them informed on work progression and completion times.

• Maintains accurate payroll accounts to include compliance withAD-SY-ALL-0460 (Fatigue and Work Hour Limits).

• Provide leadership and support for shared resource outage demands for other Duke Energy nuclear facilities.

• Maintains a safe, productive, and motivated well-trained maintenance staff through performance management and employee development and training.

• Establishes and communicates performance standards for assigned maintenance team.

• Conducts annual APA interviews to include periodic feedback sessions to communicate employee progress.

• Counsel's employees on substandard performance including implementing and conducting performance improvement plans when necessary.

• Provides opportunities for on-the-job training when work schedule permits.

• Evaluates team needs and recommends formal training in areas where a deficiency exists. Keeps management informed on manpower needs and excesses. Observes formal training to assess the quality of trainer/trainee participation and provides written feedback.

• Professional Development: Strives to continually develop and improve management and job-related technical knowledge and skills.

• Keeps current on latest developments and advances in one's technical area; maintains a general knowledge of development in related technical areas.

• Ensures all applicable policies and procedures are understood, properly administrated and followed by employees.

• Represents the Company in a professional and positive manner in all external contacts.

• Promotes a positive image through involvement and participation in community affairs and professional associations.

Basic / Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED and 4 years of work-related experience

Desired Qualifications

• 5 years of Reactor maintenance experience

• Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills

• Demonstrated ability to support corporate and station policies

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple and complex tasks

• Demonstrated ability to effectively handle conflict and motivate subordinates/team members

• Demonstrated ability to promote teamwork

• Demonstrates professionalism and courtesy to both internal and external customers

• Demonstrated promoter of personnel safety

Working Conditions

• Working in Radiation Control areas

• Extreme heat and cold from equipment.

• Cramped and confined spaces result in a need for respirators, or other physical problems.

• Lifting of heavy equipment.

• High pressures from steam and water

• On call 24 hours a day.

Travel Requirements

15-25%Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)YesRepresented/Union PositionNoVisa Sponsored PositionNo. This is not a Visa Sponsored Position. This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.

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