Supervisor - Outage Planning & Scheduling
Nuclear industryUS only
About this role
Lead outage planning and scheduling for a two-unit nuclear facility, supervising scheduling personnel and coordinating across operations, maintenance, engineering, and risk management to develop logic-driven, resource-loaded schedules that ensure safe, compliant, efficient outage execution.
Responsibilities
- —Supervise and develop outage scheduling personnel through performance management, coaching, work prioritization, and individual development planning
- —Develop, maintain, and publish integrated, logic-tied, resource-loaded outage schedules for Unit 1 and Unit 2
- —Lead schedule integration for refueling, forced, and maintenance outages across pre-outage, execution, and post-outage phases
- —Partner with station organizations to develop outage strategy, scope integration, system windows, work sequencing, and implementation plans
- —Ensure outage schedules reflect plant risk, Technical Specification constraints, Maintenance Rule requirements, shutdown safety expectations, ALARA considerations, and available resources
- —Review and challenge activity durations, logic ties, critical path assumptions, and resource estimates to maintain schedule credibility and execution readiness
- —Establish and maintain outage restraint lists, schedule assumptions, and readiness trackers with material, engineering, procedure, and vendor interfaces
- —Lead integrated schedule review meetings, readiness reviews, and cross-functional alignment meetings; communicate schedule risks and critical decisions to station leadership
- —Support outage risk assessments and PRA-informed shutdown risk management activities, evaluating emergent work impacts
- —Provide execution support during outages by updating schedules, resolving conflicts, controlling emergent scope, and maintaining alignment with approved plans
- —Validate work execution strategies, manpower loading profiles, shift strategies, and resource curves
- —Drive continuous improvement through outage critiques, self-assessments, corrective action reviews, and lessons learned
- —Participate or lead in outage governance meetings, Outage Core Team, and station committees
- —Support Emergency Response Organization duties as qualified
Qualifications
- —Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or related technical discipline (or equivalent relevant experience)
- —Minimum 5 years of experience in outage planning, outage scheduling, work management, project controls, or similar role in nuclear generation or comparable regulated heavy industrial environment
- —Demonstrated experience leading, coordinating, or supervising cross-functional work teams, planners, or schedulers
- —Working knowledge of nuclear plant operations, outage execution, work management processes, and schedule governance
- —Working knowledge of Technical Specifications, Maintenance Rule requirements, shutdown risk management, and station procedures applicable to outage planning and scheduling
- —Proficiency with Primavera P6, including development of logic-tied resource-loaded schedules, schedule analysis, and reporting
- —Working knowledge of plant work management systems such as NIMS or equivalent computerized maintenance/work management platforms
- —Strong written and verbal communication skills, meeting facilitation capability, and sound analytical and problem-solving skills
- —Ability to support extended hours during outage execution and perform emergency response duties as qualified and assigned
Desired
- —Previous supervisory experience leading outage planners, schedulers, or work management personnel
- —Senior Reactor Operator license, Shift Technical Advisor qualification, or plant-specific certification
- —Experience supporting multiple refueling outages and/or dual-unit outage coordination
- —Experience with outage readiness reviews, critical path management, schedule health metrics, and post-outage performance analysis
- —Experience coordinating vendor interfaces, contract scope integration, and outage execution support activities
Job details
FieldAdministrative
LocationBerwick, PA
IndustryNuclear energy
PostedJul 2026
Training & Certifications
SRO License
Skills & Tools
Project ManagementPrimavera P6Work ManagementTechnical Specifications
About the company
Talen Energy →An independent power producer operating the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, a two-unit boiling water reactor plant in Pennsylvania.
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Supervisor - Outage Planning & Scheduling
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