# Maintenance Specialist

**Company**: Southern Company
**Location**: Euharlee, GA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

We are seeking a Maintenance Specialist to join our team at Plant Bowen. As a Maintenance Specialist, you will be responsible for all maintenance activities associated with System Ownership, including technical support, outage planning and scheduling, routine maintenance planning, project coordination, and budget tracking.

**Responsibilities**

- Develop and execute system maintenance strategies

- Monitor maintenance strategy via preventative maintenance tracking and document equipment failures and maintenance strategy violations

- Administer the work order management system, prioritizing work orders, providing detailed work scopes, coordinating, and executing the weekly work plan

- Support and review Root Cause Analyses on system issues

- Track and provide input to budget development and monthly projections regarding contractor labor, materials, parts, and equipment needs

- Utilize computer applications such as Maximo, OIS, Word, and Excel to monitor work order progress, parts status, and labor utilization

- Plan, schedule, and execute outage work scope plans for forced, planned, and maintenance outages

- Execute major maintenance or replacement activities, directing and coordinating assigned maintenance crews and contractor personnel

- Analyze critical situations within System equipment to determine competent solutions to identified problems

- Support the Best Practices Program by developing and implementing best practices

- Provide technical direction and expertise to maintenance personnel

- Establish relationships with key vendors and SCS personnel, gathering and analyzing acceptance data on new or rebuilt equipment

**Requirements**

- Technical degree or equivalent desired but not required

- 2-5 years of experience in operations and/or maintenance of electric generating plants

- Experience with supercritical coal-fired units preferred

- Previous system ownership and budgeting experience a plus

- Contract or GPC resource coordination preferred

- Thorough understanding of plant equipment, systems, and operation

- Effective written and oral communication skills

- Ability to make decisions and demonstrate strategic planning skills

- Experience working on electrical systems, such as transformers, switchyards, switchgears, breakers, battery systems, and UPS systems

**Behavioral Attributes**

- Self-motivation and demonstrated initiative

- Safety-focused mindset

- Integrity, ethics, and professionalism

**Other Requirements**

- Availability to work nights, weekends, and holidays

- Extended work hours may be required

## Skills

### Required
- Maximo
- OIS
- Word
- Excel
- Root Cause Analyses
- budgeting
- project coordination
- maintenance planning

### Nice to have
- supercritical coal-fired units
- system ownership
- budgeting experience
- contract or GPC resource coordination
- GPC planning
- Plant Bowen experience

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