Plant Manager- WtE (St. Petersburg, FL)

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Job Summary  -

Responsible for all aspects of the Waste to Energy Facilities operation and maintenance, personnel safety, and financial performance, in strict accordance with environmental, health and safety regulations and customer and contractual agreements. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Provide exemplary leadership for facility Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE) excellence by building a Safe & Inclusive workplace; Ensuring 100% compliance with all Safety/Environmental policies, procedures, and permits; Applying lessons learned and best practices; Proactively monitoring KPIs; and completing PSR’s/RCA’s for out-of-spec conditions while ensuring effective countermeasures are completed to prevent recurrence.
• Manages the financial results and requirements of the plant's business and operations to ensure that revenue and expense goals are met (or exceeded) as established in the annual business plan. 
• Oversees the development of capital and operating budgets. Provides for business projections as required. 
• Develops an annual operating budget for the facility with input from VP WTE, Director of Operations – WTE, finance, operations and maintenance departments. 
• Sets goals and objectives for the plant for financial, environmental, health and safety, and personnel results. 
• Manages, controls and maximizes opportunity within the budgeted annual operating and maintenance expenses as determined in the annual business plan. 

• Ensures all contract agreements with parties are properly complied with, to protect the long-term interests of the company.
• Ensure the company Values & Behaviors are integrated into day-to-day operations and engrained to build/sustain a high-performing culture of excellence.
• Provide leadership, oversight, and guidance during facility transients, casualties, and emergency response activities to protect employees, the environment, and assets.
• Develop robust budget targets and monthly forecasts to maximize facility P&L/EBITDA contributions to include contingency planning to offset/mitigate emergent issues.
• Provide oversight to develop robust plans, schedules, and budgets to ensure Outages are consistently executed per developed operations, maintenance and financial plans.
• Provide leadership for all maintenance activities to ensure reliability/production targets are achieved/exceeded to include online maintenance, scheduled outage maintenance, unscheduled outage maintenance, preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, continuous monitoring, and reliability/proactive maintenance.
• Ensure robust Long-Term Maintenance Plans are developed to maintain/improve facility reliability and prevent degradation/obsolescence.
• Provide oversight for all operational activities to ensure reliability/production targets are achieved/exceeded to include O&M Standard (Tech Standard) execution, routine and periodic inspections/testing, boiler/turbine start-ups and shutdowns, procedure usage and adherence, and effective shift turnovers.
• Effectively use lessons learned, best practices, KPIs, and data to drive operational excellence and conservative decision-making.
• Effectively collaborate with regional, corporate, and external experts to develop innovative robust plans/actions when emergent issues occur challenging the safe, reliable, and proper operation of the facility.
• Inspects plant machinery and equipment; inspects ongoing activities for safety and environmental compliance, and for adherence to standard operating procedures. 
• Understands and implements facility's environmental operating permits and ensures compliance with applicable environmental standards and regulations. 
• Maintains and continuously strives to improve operational condition and performance of the facility. 
• Coordinates staff functions and line operations as appropriate to solve problems and respond to opportunities. 
• Plans and oversees work of the operations, maintenance (where applicable) and labor department's regarding operations, including plant outages. 
• Oversees management of personnel including staffing, training, development and of all plant personnel. 
• Ensures the morale of all plant staff members is maximized to the successful completion of facility goals. 
• Implements and assists in the development of all required corporate policies, practices and procedures. 
• Completes the Corporate and Plant Training Programs within the time frame prescribed. 
• Follows and ensures adherence to standard safety procedures, correct safety and environmental hazards. Reads, understands, and implements lockout/tagout, safety rules, job hazard analyses, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. 
• Communicates clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing; as well as communicates clearly whether using in-situ intercom system, two-way radio or face to face. 
• Anticipates typical problems, identifies potential or recurring problems, and takes appropriate action. Troubleshoots equipment and assists in diagnosing problem areas. 
• Identifies potential opportunities and activities of the competition and advises regional manager, as appropriate. 
• Assists Regional Management Team with other duties as required. 
• Participates in public forums to support business development and community education. 
• Participates actively in developing and implementing ongoing public relations between the plant and community to ensure favorable outlook of facility from both customer and community. 

Supervisory Responsibilities 

• Manages staff of up to 80 employees depending on plant size. 

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years at a Waste to Energy (WTE) and/or utility power generation facility experience with at least five (5) progressive years of experience in the same to include leading the facility operations and/or maintenance teams; Prior Plant/Facility Manager experience at a WtE and/or utility power generation facility is highly desired.
• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in the planning/execution of Outages to deliver on Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) commitments (Boiler, Turbine, Cold Iron/Black Plant).
• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in the planning/execution of Projects (Capital and Small/Routine Maintenance).
• Proven ability to demonstrate experience with developing/sustaining a high performing culture of Safety/Environmental excellence including the ability to demonstrate behaviors to Ensure a Safe and Inclusive Workplace exists for employees.
• Proven ability to develop and successfully execute facility Budget P&L/forecasts to include being Accountable by executing countermeasures for emergent issues challenging the achievement of operational/financial commitments.
• Proven ability to demonstrate Customer Focus through establishing/sustaining successful Client/Customer relationships.
• Proven ability to demonstrate a Lean Mindset by challenging the status quo to identify Continuous Improvement opportunities to increase revenue and manage/decrease cost.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to drive cultural change, accountability, and continuous improvement mindset throughout the organization.
• Proven experience interacting with Federal, State, and local regulators, legislators, permitting agencies, and other community organizations.

Education and Experience 

• Bachelors or equivalent in a technical degree program 
• 10 years proven track record of increasing managerial responsibility in a power plant environment 
• Proven knowledge and experience in the operation, control, and maintenance of a steam generating power plant 

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements 

• Licenses as required by Local, State, Federal, Environmental and/or Health/Safety Regulatory agencies. 

Computer Skills 

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) 
• CMMS 

Benefits:

• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

FCC Environmental Services, LLC operates in a multicultural, global environment and is a richly diverse organization operating seamlessly as one company. We aim to attract, motivate and retain the best people in our industry, whatever their background. We share the same passion to deliver world-class solutions to our customers. We have the best waste management professionals in the industry and develop this talent in an inspiring work environment.

FCC Environmental Services, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity work place employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other characteristic. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individual with Disabilities