Maintenance Outage Discipline Coordinator

Talen Energy·Berwick, PA·Posted July 2026

Nuclear industryUS only

About this role

Maintenance Outage Discipline Coordinator at a commercial nuclear power plant, supporting refueling and forced outages by coordinating maintenance scope, resources, scheduling, and execution across multiple disciplines. This role ensures outage work is fully defined, resourced, and executed safely and efficiently while bridging maintenance leadership, operations, planning, and contractor teams.

Responsibilities

—Develop and maintain discipline-specific outage readiness plans with defined actions, milestones, due dates, ownership, and approval status
—Validate discipline scope, implementation strategy, work windows, logic ties, durations, resource assumptions, and field execution constraints for integrated outage schedules
—Represent assigned maintenance discipline in outage readiness reviews, outage management meetings, Outage Review Board discussions, and Core Team preparation activities
—Support identification, screening, and definition of outage work scope including implementation strategy, work packaging, specialty skill requirements, and execution prerequisites
—Identify contractor and house labor splits, specialty skill needs, supervision requirements, and supplemental resource assumptions
—Ensure required support services (scaffolding, temporary lighting, insulation, rigging, foreign material exclusion controls) are identified and incorporated into planning
—Validate resource loading, crew composition, shift strategies, tooling needs, and execution assumptions for assigned discipline scope
—Support development and maintenance of outage restraint lists, readiness trackers, milestone deliverables, and department action plans
—Identify material, procedure, engineering, vendor, clearance, and field condition barriers; elevate issues and support resolution plans
—Support development of contingency plans and alternative execution strategies for risk-significant maintenance activities
—Assist maintenance leadership with milestone management, scope validation, labor planning, contractor coordination, and budget awareness
—Provide execution support during outages by monitoring field progress, coordinating with foremen, identifying emerging issues, and maintaining alignment with approved outage plans
—Support integration of emergent work and revised resource needs during outage execution to minimize impact on duration and budget
—Participate in outage improvement meetings, benchmarking, critiques, and corrective action activities
—Perform Emergency Response Organization and execution assignments as qualified

Qualifications

High school diploma or equivalent; minimum 5 years of experience maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and testing equipment in a commercial nuclear power plant; demonstrated experience supporting outage planning, outage execution, maintenance coordination, or work management activities at a commercial nuclear generating station; working knowledge of work document review, component information, modification processes, work implementation, and station work management practices; working knowledge of plant systems and equipment within assigned maintenance discipline; ability to coordinate effectively with maintenance production, engineering, operations, outage planning, contractors, and other work groups; strong written and verbal communication skills, organization, and problem-solving ability; ability to support extended hours during outage execution and perform emergency response duties as qualified and assigned

Desired

Strong knowledge of plant systems, equipment interfaces, and outage execution considerations within assigned maintenance discipline; experience serving as lead, foreman, planner, coordinator, or other field execution resource for maintenance outage activities; experience supporting outage readiness reviews, milestone management, contingency planning, and contractor coordination; familiarity with Primavera P6 including work windows, logic ties, resource manpower loading, and schedule reporting; experience with NIMS or equivalent work management systems for work document review and component information