Facility Manager

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILTIES

The Facility Manager will provide exceptional leadership to develop/sustain a high-performing culture to consistently achieve and/or exceed operational budget commitments. The Facility Manager will develop O&M budgets/forecasts and Long-Term Maintenance Plans to achieve/sustain operational excellence while maximizing P&L/EBITDA/FCF contributions. The Facility Manager will use data and experiential guidance to make conservative decisions to ensure the plant is operated in a safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally responsible manner. From a macro perspective, the Facility Manger is responsible for “all aspects of facility end-to-end” O&M activities involved in receiving incoming waste, processing/thermally treating incoming waste, and removing the by-products of the thermal treatment process. From a system/component level perspective, the Facility Manager is responsible for all O&M aspects of facility Boilers, Turbine Generator(s), Metals Systems, Ash Handling Systems, and BOP Auxiliary Systems.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Provide exemplary leadership for facility Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE) excellence by building a Safe & Inclusive workplace; Ensuring 100% compliance with all Safety/Environmental policies, procedures, and permits; Applying lessons learned and best practices; Proactively monitoring KPIs; and completing PSR’s/RCA’s for out-of-spec conditions while ensuring effective countermeasures are completed to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure the Values & Behaviors are integrated into day-to-day operations and engrained to build/sustain a high-performing culture of excellence.
• Provide leadership, oversight, and guidance during facility transients, casualties, and emergency response activities to protect employees, the environment, and assets.
• Develop robust budget targets and monthly forecasts to maximize facility P&L/EBITDA/FCF contributions to include contingency planning to offset/mitigate emergent issues. 

• Provide oversight to develop robust plans, schedules, and budgets to ensure Outages are consistently executed Safely, with no defects (Quality), On-Schedule (Delivery), and On-Budget (Cost).
• Provide leadership for all maintenance activities to ensure reliability/production targets are achieved/exceeded to include online maintenance, scheduled outage maintenance, unscheduled outage maintenance, preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, continuous monitoring, and reliability/proactive maintenance.
• Ensure robust Long-Term Maintenance Plans are developed to maintain/improve facility reliability and prevent degradation/obsolescence.
• Provide oversight for the development of facility projects (Capital & Maintenance) to ensure they are consistently executed Safely, with no defects (Quality), On-Schedule (Delivery), and On-Budget (Cost).
• Provide oversight for all operational activities to ensure reliability/production targets are achieved/exceeded to include O&M Standard (Tech Standard) execution, routine and periodic inspections/testing, boiler/turbine start-ups and shutdowns, procedure usage and adherence, and effective shift turnovers.
• Effectively use lessons learned, best practices, KPIs, and data to drive operational excellence and conservative decision-making.
• Drive a Lean Mindset to continuously challenge the status quo to improve revenue p/ton, decrease cost p/ton, and improve production where/when appropriate to maximize facility P&L/EBITDA/FCF contributions.
• Effectively collaborate with regional, corporate, and external experts to develop innovative robust plans/actions when emergent issues occur challenging the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the facility.
• Serve as the primary Reworld interface for assigned Client facilities(s) while exhibiting exemplary Customer Focus.
• Remain fully engaged at all times and be on-call as needed to ensure safe and reliable facility operations to include periodic travel when required (nights, weekends, holidays; 7/24/365-day facility operation).
• Ensure facility employees are properly trained to prevent and respond to transients, casualties, and emergencies to protect employees, the environment, and assets.
• Develop/sustain robust community outreach actions and support government affair activities to ensure the facility is always viewed from the best possible perspective.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 10 years at a Waste to Energy/Thermomechanical Treatment Facility (WtE/TTF) and/or utility power generation facility experience with at least five (5) progressive years of experience in the same to include leading the facility operations and/or maintenance teams; Prior Plant/Facility Manager experience at a WtE/TTF and/or utility power generation facility is highly desired.

• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in the planning/execution of Outages to deliver on Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) commitments (Boiler, Turbine, Cold Iron/Black Plant).
• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in the planning/execution of Projects (Capital and Small/Routine Maintenance).
• Proven ability to demonstrate experience with developing/sustaining a high performing culture of Safety/Environmental excellence including the ability to demonstrate behaviors to Ensure a Safe and Inclusive Workplace exists for employees.
• Proven ability to develop and successfully execute facility Budget P&L/forecasts to include being Accountable by executing countermeasures for emergent issues challenging the achievement of operational/financial commitments. 
• Proven ability to demonstrate Customer Focus through establishing/sustaining successful Client/Customer relationships.
• Proven ability to demonstrate a Lean Mindset by challenging the status quo to identify Continuous Improvement opportunities to increase revenue p/ton, decrease cost p/ton, and improve production.
• Experience in building (re-building) process/systems to continuously improve the business.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to drive cultural change, accountability, and continuous improvement mindset throughout the organization.
• Proven experience interacting with Federal, State, and local regulators, legislators, permitting agencies, and other community organizations.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering, technical, or business field is required with a Master’s Degree preferred. Plant/Facility Manager experience at a WtE/TTF and/or utility power generation facility may be accepted as commensurate to degree requirements.
• ASME CFO (Chief Facility Officer) Certification is highly desired and must be attained if not present.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification or Lean Practitioner certified, highly preferred.
• A PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is highly desirable.