Assistant Utility Plant Manager

Overview

Lead operations & maintenance of a cogeneration plant, ensuring safety, reliability, and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• team management
• safety compliance
• predictive maintenance
• reporting
• budgeting
• outage management

Tasks

-Maintains a consistent and effective level of communication with Plant Manager, Administrative staff, O&M Technicians and Skilled Trades on shift -Use computers with exposure to video display terminals; and some repetitive motion associated with data entry, the use of a computer mouse, and while using other office equipment -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 -Constantly reviews and improves operational processes and ensures that operating personnel are properly trained and adhere to established policies, procedures, and standards -Investigates operating abnormalities and incidents to improve equipment availability and performance and to minimize maintenance requirements -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 -Lead/support problem solving activities and coach and mentor the 4 CI capabilities within the team -Ensures Contractors comply with all On-Site Business Unit and DTE Energy policies, procedures, and Safety requirements -Assures proper staffing, scheduling, orientation, and training of the plant staff, and manages compliance with all company policies and procedures. Supports recruiting, interviews, and assigns operations and maintenance employment candidates. -Assists with maintenance engineering evaluations and troubleshooting of equipment abnormalities -Lead/support development of plant personnel in skillsets, equipment/system knowledge and solving critical operational concerns -Enter and work in confined space areas, including boilers, condensers, tanks, etc. to evaluate equipment condition or inspect work efforts by assigned resources -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 -Frequently lift objects of up to 10 pounds in weight. Occasionally lift or move onjectos of up to 40 pounds in weight -Support management of change process to ensure traceability and collaboration on execution -Prepares necessary plant operation reports in a timely manner and investigates all forced outages, reporting them in accordance with the BU practice through SharePoint -Establishes, reviews, and modifies as required all predictive/preventive maintenance requirements programmed into the maintenance management system in alignment with maintenance strategy -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 -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 -Assist the Plant Manager with project management of all planned outage activities, including long term planning for capital improvements

Requirements

• plant engineering
• cogeneration
• supervisory
• accounting
• respirator
• preventive maintenance

What You Bring

-Solid knowledge of plant engineering and plant maintenance functions and how they relate to operations -Ability to work shifts and extra/irregular hours and to work under unusual and special conditions that can arise in a generation station -At least 8 years of supervisory or managerial experience in a Cogeneration power plant with a represented (Union) workforce -A high school diploma or GED -Ability to pass respirator fit tests to use respiratory protective equipment or self-contained breathing apparatus at all times -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 -Proven planning and scheduling experience working with O&M, and other technical personnel involved with preventative/predictive maintenance and corrective maintenance -Ability to analyze and improve operations business processes -Strong oral and written communication skills -Talk and hear, use hands and fingers; handle and feel' and able to reach with hands and arems extensively -Thorough, demonstrated understanding of plant operations and maintenance, with strong knowledge of generating equipment, boilers, and water treatment processes -Occasionally stand or walk and stoop or kneel -Possess the following vision requirements: close, color, distance, peripheral, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus

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About Dte Energy

-Operates one of Michigan’s largest electric utilities, serving customers with a diverse energy mix including coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydro, and renewables. -Runs a major natural gas utility providing to customers, backed by extensive storage wells and pipeline infrastructure. -Beyond utilities, it advances industrial energy solutions, renewable natural gas, energy marketing, and trading through non‑utility segments. -Projects range from grid modernization—like smart reclosers and underground cables—to utility-scale wind, solar parks, and landfill gas‑to‑energy facilities. -Unusual facts: it operates one of the nation’s top coal‑fired stations, Monroe Power Plant.

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