CAMS is looking for a Plant Manager at the Kings Mountain Energy Center in Kings Mountain, NC. The incumbent will have 19 direct and indirect employees. The Plant Manager is responsible for the safe, reliable, compliant, and financially responsible operation and maintenance of the Kings Mountain Energy Center.
Kings Mountain Energy Center is a 475MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant. The facility features an advanced 276MW Mitsubishi M501GAC gas turbine, a Vogt Power heat recovery steam generator (HRSG), a 225MW Toshiba steam turbine generator, and a Thermal Engineering International surface condenser.
The position provides overall leadership for plant operations, maintenance, engineering support, environmental and regulatory compliance, administration, workforce development, budgeting, outage execution, and continuous improvement. The Plant Manager serves as the primary site representative to CAMS leadership, facility ownership and asset management, and is accountable for developing a high-performing organization that maximizes plant availability, reliability, efficiency, and long-term asset value. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, sound technical and business judgment, and the ability to manage a complex combined-cycle generating facility in a competitive power-market environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership and direction for the safe, reliable, environmentally compliant, and cost-effective operation and maintenance of the facility.
- Establish and maintain a strong safety culture in which employees and contractors actively identify hazards, stop unsafe work, and demonstrate personal ownership of safety performance.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental permits, laws, regulations, NERC requirements, OSHA requirements, company policies, and facility procedures.
- Lead and develop the plant management team and workforce, including recruiting, coaching, performance management, succession planning, qualification programs, and workforce development.
- Maintain effective working relationships with facility ownership, Asset Management, CAMS leadership, regulatory agencies, the system operator, utilities, OEMs, contractors, and other key stakeholders.
- Develop and execute annual operating plans, O&M budgets, capital plans, forecasts, and long-term maintenance strategies consistent with owner objectives and contractual requirements.
- Monitor plant financial performance and control expenditures while ensuring that short-term budget objectives do not create unacceptable safety, environmental, reliability, or long-term asset risk.
- Direct plant operations to achieve availability, reliability, heat-rate, start-reliability, capacity, and other performance objectives while meeting dispatch and commercial obligations.
- Provide leadership for maintenance strategies, preventive and predictive maintenance, corrective-maintenance backlog management, equipment reliability, root-cause analysis, and elimination of recurring failures.
- Direct planning and execution of combustion turbine, steam turbine, HRSG, generator, electrical, and balance-of-plant outages and major maintenance activities, including scope, budget, schedule, contractor performance, quality, and risk management.
- Develop and maintain multi-year outage, major-maintenance, and capital improvement plans based on equipment condition, OEM recommendations, operating profile, commercial requirements, and risk.
- Identify significant plant risks and provide CAMS leadership and ownership with timely information, alternatives, consequences, and clear recommendations for decision-making.
- Ensure appropriate critical-spares strategy, inventory controls, long-lead component planning, and equipment-obsolescence management.
- Oversee plant engineering and technical support activities, including equipment modifications, controls and logic changes, performance monitoring, capital projects, and technical problem solving.
- Ensure plant procedures, drawings, technical documentation, training materials, emergency plans, and operating records are accurate and maintained.
- Oversee administration of applicable plant contracts and agreements and ensure operational compliance with owner requirements, O&M obligations, OEM/LTSA requirements, fuel and utility agreements, and other commercial commitments.
- Maintain effective communication with Asset Management and ownership, including prompt escalation of significant safety, environmental, operational, equipment, financial, contractual, or regulatory events.
- Lead emergency response and business-continuity activities and ensure the facility is prepared for severe weather, grid emergencies, fuel interruptions, cyber events, and major equipment failures.
- Promote a culture of accountability, teamwork, continuous improvement, and open communication across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Compliance, and Administration.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve plant performance, reduce operating risk, optimize costs, and increase long-term asset value.
- Support CAMS fleet initiatives, peer reviews, lessons learned, workforce-development efforts, and cross-facility technical support as requested.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Skills
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in power generation operations and maintenance, including significant leadership experience in a power plant environment.
- Prior Plant Manager, Operations Manager, Maintenance Manager, or comparable senior power-generation leadership experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge of combined-cycle power plant operations, maintenance, reliability, and major equipment systems. Experience with combustion turbines, steam turbines, HRSGs, generators, electrical systems, and balance-of-plant equipment is preferred.
- Experience with Mitsubishi M501GAC combustion turbines is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing major outages, managing contractors and OEMs, controlling outage scope and cost, and resolving emergent technical issues.
- Working knowledge of environmental, health and safety, and electric-generation regulatory requirements applicable to power plant operations.
- Demonstrated experience developing and managing O&M budgets, forecasts, capital projects, and long-term maintenance plans.
- Proven ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable a multidisciplinary workforce.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, planning, and organizational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with employees, executives, owners, regulators, contractors, and technical personnel.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field preferred. Significant relevant power-generation leadership experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and familiarity with computerized maintenance management systems, plant historians, performance-monitoring systems, and other power-plant business systems.
- Ability to respond to plant emergencies and significant operating events outside normal business hours as required.
Other Desirable Skills
- Demonstrates visible leadership and a strong personal commitment to safety and environmental compliance.
- Balances technical, operational, financial, and commercial considerations when making decisions.
- Communicates significant risks and problems early and avoids surprises for ownership and senior leadership.
- Demonstrates strong customer service skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with facility ownership and Asset Management.
- Effectively prioritizes competing demands in a fast-changing operating environment.
- Develop people and create clear succession paths for key positions.
- Demonstrates a high degree of integrity, accountability, sound judgment, and ownership mentality.
- Ability to represent the facility and CAMS professionally with owners, regulators, industry organizations, and external stakeholders
Applicants must possess a valid driver's license and maintain a clean driving record, as this position requires occasional travel for company business. Candidates should be comfortable operating a vehicle as part of their job responsibilities and must meet any applicable company and insurance requirements.
CAMS offers a variety of excellent benefits. Full-time employees are offered the following: medical, dental, vision, LTD, STD, and Life insurance plans. You can even select additional “al la carte” benefits to meet all your needs. You can also enroll in our 401k, flex spending accounts for medical and childcare needs, and participate in our employee referral and tuition reimbursement programs.
Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States.
We believe in transparency and providing candidates with important information to make informed decisions. The salary range for this position will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, and location. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, and relevant qualifications.
This range represents the base salary and does not include other forms of compensation, such as bonuses, benefits, or equity, which may be offered in addition to the base pay. The company reserves the right to modify.