Nuclear Fleet Outage Consultant

Job Summary

Reducing the number of days that a nuclear unit is in outage is one of the most impactful contributors to Dominion Energy’s Nuclear’s success, operationally and financially.  Improving outage performance over the long-term is a highly complex puzzle involving a myriad of partners, resources, and processes.  To help align these pieces in the most effective manner, Dominion Energy Nuclear is actively seeking a Nuclear Fleet Outage Consultant (“Consultant”).

The Consultant will directly influence the outage performance of Dominion Energy Nuclear’s fleet of four power stations.  With the Consultant’s leadership and support, it is expected that the fleet will achieve top-tier outage performance within the industry.

Core to the Consultant’s success will be their ability to identify outage best practices and implement them across the fleet.  The Consultant will then provide the consistent leadership required to ensure the practices are adhered to over the long-term and will enhance a team culture focused on continuous improvement.

More specifically, the Consultant will:

• Provide governance and oversight for Fleet outage planning and execution.
• Create and own the fleet outage readiness review process.
• Coordinate a periodic fleet outage review board that meets periodically and includes senior management (Senior VP, site VPs, VP Engineering) and corporate outage director. This board meets for corporate outage readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and establishes the outage long range plan.
• Assist in stations outage readiness.
• Conduct outage readiness reviews and assessments, with standard review items for Fleet Outage Scope Review (at T-6 months prior to an outage), Fleet Outage Preparation Review (T-3), and Fleet Outage Executive or Review Board Challenge (T-2).
• Ensure readiness reviews are challenging and determine readiness.
• Enforce process discipline.
• Monitor outage milestones for proper closure, adherence and recovery process.
• Validate scope selection.
• Interface with the Preventive Maintenance (PM) program owners to obtain consistency in the Fleet for outage PM scope.
• Oversee outage management and execution.
• Participate in T+1 month critiques for the stations and Fleet rollups.
• Monitor overall outage improvement critiques to ensure consistency and to ensure station and Fleet improvements are pursued.
• Promote Fleet incorporation of industry best outage practices and lessons learned.
• Maintain and enhance the Fleet outage documents with the Outage working group of outage coordinators.
• Drive Fleet standardization.
• Assist station Outage Coordinators with tactical issues as they are identified in the Fleet.

In all aspects of their role, the Consultant will be expected to build trusting and productive partnerships with a variety of stakeholders including the outage groups located at each power station.  Effective written and verbal communications will be essential in nurturing these partnerships and driving sustainable improvements.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

To be qualified for the Nuclear Fleet Outage Consultant, one must meet the following Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years or more of technical nuclear experience, in maintenance, operations, engineering, site services (construction) or other related technical experience or;
• Associate’s degree and 10 years or more of technical nuclear experience, in maintenance, operations, engineering, site services (construction) or other related technical experience or;
• High school diploma/GED and 12 years or more of technical nuclear experience, in maintenance, operations, engineering, site services (construction) or other related technical experience.
   

• Detailed knowledge of outage preparation, management, and execution.
• Detailed knowledge of P6 and a demonstrated track record scheduling refueling outages preferred
• Demonstrated meeting leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated experience effectively interacting with various levels of employees, senior management, and other utility management.
• Ability to create meeting agendas, outage readiness, critique and benchmarking reports.
• Ability to influence and be persuasive without formal authority.
• Adept at promoting collaboration
• Ability to coach/mentor others. Good process improvement skills
• Proven ability to prepare and present information and data in variety of formats.
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize work of self and others.
  Demonstrated high standards for continuous improvement of outage work processes.

Education Requirements

Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education. Note: ANSI standards may apply.

• The preferred candidate will have obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related technical field

Licenses, Certifications, or Quals Description

SRO License or certification is preferred.

Working Conditions

Other Working Conditions

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