Job Description
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”).
Although Glen Allen, VA is the preferred work location, the selected candidate can be based out of the nuclear power stations located at Jenkinsville, SC; Mineral, VA; Surry, VA; or Waterford, CT.
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-8 months prior to an outage), Fleet Outage Readiness 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.
- Leading/directing teams to adhere to the outage milestone 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
The knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences that are required for entry into this job include the following:
- Bachelor's Degree and seven (7) or more years of experience directly related to nuclear power plant outage preparation, management and execution, or
- Associate's degree and nine (9) or more years of experience directly related to nuclear power plant outage preparation, management and execution, or
- High School diploma/GED and eleven (11) or more years of experience directly related to nuclear power plant outage preparation, management and execution.
Preferred Candidates will also possess:
- 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
- Effective 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:
Bachelor
Preferred Disciplines: Engineering, Technical Studies
Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above
Licenses, Certifications, or Quals Description
Preferred: Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) license or certificate