Job Summary
The Director, Generation Engineering & Outage Management is responsible for the safe, reliable, and efficient planning and execution of capital projects, engineering programs, and planned outages supporting electric generation operations. This role drives operational excellence, asset reliability, project execution, outage readiness, and workforce development while ensuring generation assets are available to meet business and customer demands.
The Director develops and executes strategic initiatives that improve generation performance, optimize capital and outage investments, enhance organizational capability, and support long-term fleet reliability objectives. This position collaborates closely with Generation Operations, Central Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Environmental, and Safety teams to ensure successful project delivery, outage execution, and operational
readiness across the generation fleet. The role directly supports GENCO by ensuring generation assets are maintained, upgraded, and returned to service safely, reliably, and cost-effectively while positioning the organization for future generation growth and asset
integration.
Essential Functions
Champion a culture of safety, accountability, and operational excellence across generation engineering, projects, and outage management activities.
Lead planning and execution of capital projects, major maintenance activities, and planned outages across the generation fleet.
Establish and maintain engineering, project management, outage management, and execution standards to drive consistent performance.
Ensure projects and outages are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and in compliance with applicable requirements.
Direct project controls, forecasting, risk management, change management, and performance reporting programs.
Provide leadership for outage readiness, resource planning, contractor management, materials management, and contingency planning.
Partner with Plant Operations and Central Engineering to improve asset reliability, equipment performance, and lifecycle management strategies.
Support commissioning, startup, turnover, and integration of new and upgraded generation assets.
Develop and execute annual operating plans, capital investment strategies, budgets, and performance objectives.
Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, performance metrics, benchmarking, and best-practice implementation.
Build and maintain strong partnerships with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Safety, Environmental, Regulatory, and external stakeholders.
Develop leaders and technical talent to ensure organizational capability, succession planning, and long-term workforce readiness.
Support fleet modernization initiatives and future generation investments, including thermal, renewable, and emerging generation technologies.
Required Qualifications for Position
Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related technical discipline.
Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in project management, project execution, and outage planning and management within the power generation industry, including demonstrated experience leading and executing both Operations & Maintenance (O&M) and capital project at power generating facilities. Experience must include managing complex project scopes, budgets, schedules, resources, contractors, and execution risks while ensuring safe, reliable, cost effective, and timely delivery of projects and planned outages.
Minimum 5 years of leadership experience with responsibility for leading managers, technical professionals, project teams, and/or cross-functional organizations.
Demonstrated experience leading large-scale capital projects, major maintenance programs, and planned outage activities within a utility, power generation, industrial, or energy environment.
Proven ability to manage budgets, capital investment plans, resource allocation, and performance…