Outage Specialist at Talen Energy in Berwick, PA

Job description

Job Summary Job Summary: The Outage Specialist reports to the Outage Manager and is responsible for leading the development, coordination, and implementation of detailed plans and schedules for forced, planned, maintenance, and refueling outages while ensuring shutdown safety, ALARA principles, Technical Specification compliance, and adherence to station procedures and outage management processes. Under the direction of the Outage Manager, this role supports outage milestone readiness, schedule execution, forced outage planning, and shutdown risk management, and works across station organizations to align scope, resources, schedule logic, and execution priorities in support of safe, efficient, and predictable outage performance. The Outage Specialist serves as a key integrator between site departments, outage leadership, and designated team leads during both pre-outage preparation and outage execution. Primary Responsibilities : Primary Responsibilities Lead and coordinate development of the integrated outage plan and detailed outage schedule for upcoming unit outages under the direction of the Outage Manager to ensure Technical Specification compliance, shutdown safety, and alignment with station goals, milestones, and approved work scope. Lead or support horizontal schedule reviews, vertical slice reviews, milestone reviews, and readiness assessments to validate schedule logic, work windows, resource alignment, risk controls, and execution strategy. Coordinate planners, schedulers, operations, maintenance, engineering, projects, radiation protection, supply chain, training, and specialty teams regarding outage preparation, schedule alignment, and execution priorities. Lead, development, implementation, and communication of the Shutdown Safety Program and support outage risk management to ensure schedule decisions appropriately reflect shutdown risk controls, plant configuration requirements, and defense in depth. ·Direct outage schedule implementation during execution, including schedule maintenance, status updates, activity posting, critical path monitoring, emergent work integration, and communication of schedule impacts to the Outage Manager, station leadership, and the Outage Control Center. Coordinate outage risk screening and support overall outage risk management by evaluating schedule changes, emergent scope, plant conditions, and work interactions that may affect shutdown safety or execution margins. Develop and maintain forced outage, maintenance outage, and recovery plans, including OCC training support, tabletop drills, and preparatory communications for station stakeholders. Track outage milestone readiness and communicate status, gaps, risks, and recovery actions to the Outage Manager and outage leadership team. Support development of materials for outage readiness meetings, Outage Review Board meetings, Core Team preparation meetings, executive challenge meetings, management review meetings, and other leadership forums requiring schedule, risk, and readiness status. ·Support high impact team tracking and provide oversight of team effectiveness, readiness progress, issue resolution, and execution performance during outage preparation and execution. · Develop or coordinate startup management and recovery meetings, as applicable, to support safe and efficient return to service. ·Conduct critiques, capture lessons learned, perform gap analyses, and update outage templates, planning tools, and standard processes to improve future outage performance. Interface with contractors, designated team leads, and specialty support organizations to align outage plans, support resource readiness, and address execution risks. Actively support corrective action, self-assessment, and continuous improvement processes, including assigned actions, readiness gaps, outage observations, benchmarking, and after-action reviews. Perform additional duties as assigned, including Emergency Response Organization and execution assignments for