Plant Manager

The New Castle Generating Station, situated on a 270-acre site along the Beaver River, has undergone a significant transformation from a coal plant to a natural gas facility in 2016, breathing new life into its operations and contributing to the region's energy landscape. Equipped with three natural gas-fired steam boilers, the plant boasts a total potential MW output of 328. The plant is notable for its utilization of B&W Boilers and Westinghouse Steam Turbine Generators, controlled by an ABB DCS system. **Opportunity Summary** The Plant Manager provides overall leadership and direction for all aspects of plant operations, maintenance, safety, compliance, and administrative programs, ensuring the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of New Castle Generating Station. The position oversees staffing, training, personnel development, employee engagement, and provides leadership and operational support to the Niles Generating Station as needed. As the primary liaison to the Owner, regulatory agencies, and the local community, the Plant Manager manages commercial agreements, financial performance, regulatory compliance, and the facility's reputation. **Your scope of responsibility as Plant Manager includes the following primary functions:** - Provide overall site leadership by establishing clear expectations, reinforcing accountability, and ensuring policies and procedures support operational objectives, regulatory compliance, and industry best practices. - Champion a proactive safety culture by promoting safe work practices, reinforcing safety expectations, and ensuring personnel remain vigilant in protecting themselves, coworkers, contractors, and the public. - Ensure compliance with environmental permits, regulatory requirements, operating licenses, and other applicable governmental requirements, including the timely preparation and submission of required reports. - Direct and integrate core plant programs—including operations, maintenance, safety, chemistry, training, environmental compliance, and administrative functions—to sustain safe, efficient, and reliable generation. - Administer the Management of Change (MOC) program to ensure modifications to equipment, processes, and procedures are properly reviewed, approved, documented, and communicated before implementation. - Develop workforce staffing, qualification, and development programs by identifying skill gaps, providing coaching and career development, and ensuring personnel maintain the knowledge, certifications, and competencies required to safely operate and maintain the facility while supporting employee engagement, morale, and retention. - Oversee plant reliability and performance by supporting Operations and Maintenance personnel, assisting with equipment troubleshooting, and coordinating technical resources to resolve operational issues. - Plan and execute scheduled and forced outages, optimizing schedules, resources, and work scope to improve equipment reliability, control costs, and maximize plant availability. - Serve as the primary liaison with the Owner, regulatory agencies, community stakeholders, and local organizations, fostering positive relationships and promoting the station as a responsible community partner. - Administer and ensure compliance with commercial and contractual obligations, including the O&M agreement, fuel supply contracts, major service agreements, and other vendor and customer commitments. - Oversee procurement activities and vendor performance to ensure materials, equipment, and contracted services effectively support safe and reliable plant operations. - Manage plant financial performance by developing operating and capital budgets, monitoring expenditures, forecasting costs, and applying sound cost-control practices while maintaining safe and reliable operations. - Travel to and support the Niles Generating Station as needed, providing leadership and oversight for operations, maintenance, outages, troubleshooting, and other site…