Manager, Generation Engineering

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This position is posted until filled.

DEPARTMENT

Department: Generation Engineering

PREFERENCES

Licensed Professional Engineer

Generation Engineering Experience

Project Management Experience

Contract Management Experience

JOB DESCRIPTION

Manager, Generation Engineering

Salary Grade: DOE

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SUMMARY:

Manages a team of engineers, technical leads, administrators, and support personnel with a primary focus on PNM owned generation including San Juan Generating Station, Afton, Lordsburg, Luna, and Reeves generating stations. Ensures high value, economical projects are evaluated, designed, and constructed for PNM power generation facilities. Plans, organizes, leads, and controls the stations engineering, asset management programs, document control services, capital project management, and capital vendor alliance services and activities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supplies the materials, tools, capital, and other resources necessary to accomplish the departments goals, objectives, and improvement initiatives

Determines, develops, and maintains work relationships among the stations various departments, disciplines, and work-groups

Generates forecasts, environmental, and auxiliary equipment performance curves, upgrade economics, and capital replacement requirements and capabilities

Establishes one-year and five-year equipment capital improvement, outage project, and engineering project targets

Sets department goals and objectives that achieve the departments capital improvement, outage, and engineering project targets

Develops, applies, and meets budgets that support the departments goals and objectives

Establishes, executes, and achieves work sequences, schedules, milestones, and deadlines

Develops, enacts, and enforces policies, procedures, programs, and guidelines

Assesses, adjusts, and controls the work of the department to accomplish the departments goals and objectives

Determines department availability, reliability, and productivity performance standards

Establishes methods of measuring, monitoring, and reporting work in progress and completed tasks

Evaluates work in progress and results achieved against the standards

Corrects deficient performance improving methods and results

COMPETENCIES:

Broad knowledge of the design, maintenance, and operation of all power generation technologies including fossil-fired power plants and associated environmental systems

Understanding of and ability to utilize project management tools and techniques to plan, schedule, execute, and document outage projects and engineering projects in an effective, efficient, and safe manner

Ability to exercise considerable technical judgment and influence in the analysis of engineering problems and solutions; and in the implementation of those solutions while maintaining plant operating equipment availability, reliability, and productivity targets

Understanding of and ability to utilize sound management techniques and leadership principles

Ability to make sound judgments and crucial decisions in short amounts of time

Ability to maintain positive and productive working relationships with various individuals and groups

QUALIFICATIONS

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university in engineering with seven to nine years related experience, including two years of management experience, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to the discipline.

Master's degree is preferred.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Hires, trains, evaluates, rewards, and terminates employees. Designs, organizes, prioritizes, schedules, and leads work assignments. Fosters good working relationships with various groups.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, and governmental regulations

Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals

Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from management

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Working knowledge of database, spreadsheet, and word processing software.

ANALYSIS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITY:

Ability to solve complex problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Ability to sit up to 2/3 of the time and to stand, walk, and stoop up to 1/3 of the time. Good vision and ability to adjust focus is required. Manual dexterity is required. Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Office and Plant environment.

SAFETY AND ADA STATEMENT

Safety Statement:
Safety is a core value at (TXNM Energy/PNM/TNMP) and our vision, "everyone goes home safe", reflects our commitment to promoting an environment conducive to learning, improving and building safety practices. Our safety value is built upon the belief that every employee deserves to work in an environment free from harm.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Statement:
If you require assistance with the job application process due to a disability, please contact HR ADA Analyst, at .

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