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Southern Company

Team Leader, Operations

Company: 
Southern Company
City: 
Rincon
State: 
Georgia
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other

JOB SUMMARY

The Operations Team Leader is responsible for the safety of all employees working on shift and for the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of all power plant equipment. This position must ensure that the plant is operated in compliance with all safety, regulatory, and environmental regulations. The Operations Team Leader is responsible for managing the performance of his or her shift to ensure the safety of personnel, maintaining compliance, protection of equipment and assets, and coordinating plant activities. Coordination efforts include the direct control of plant operations in accordance with operating limits and operating procedures as well as performance management including training, employee development, setting goals, giving feedback, and coaching.This position maintains the overall leadership responsibility for the plant on night shifts, holidays, and weekends.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

  • Provide direct oversight to the department to ensure adherence to regulations, operating procedures, safe operating limits, compliance, and administrative procedures.
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in power plant operations required.
  • Supervisory/leadership experience preferred.
  • Strong technical background in the operation and maintenance of a generating plant
  • Strong technical background as Control Board Operator preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience working with operations procedures preferred.


Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  • Demonstrate safety as a core value and actively pursue continuous improvement of the plant safety culture.
  • Demonstrate Our Values: Safety First, Intentional Inclusion, Act with Integrity, and Superior Performance
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills; ability to inspire and motivate others and develop a positive culture.
  • Ability to analyze critical situations, determine solutions and implement in a safe & effective manner.
  • Proficient computer skills (Word, Excel, email, etc.)
  • Experience with DCS & OIS as a diagnostic and troubleshooting tool.
  • Ability to analyze and determine current and future operating conditions that affect reliability, flexibility, and efficiency of units.
  • Proven ability to effectively communicate in groups and one-on-one.
  • Ability to develop teams and individuals through performance management.
  • Knowledge and understanding of environmental, safety and OSHA regulations that affect Operations.
  • Must have proven working knowledge of all plant systems, understand current procedures and work control policies and procedures.
  • Thorough understanding of IBEW contract



JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Ensuring a safe work environment is always maintained by using prudent judgment to resolve any problem that may affect the safe operation of the plant.
  • Initiate and execute any actions required by the Plant McIntosh Emergency Action Plan.
  • Awareness of abnormal situations and ability to act to appropriately assess and begin resolving these situations to minimize the consequences to people, environment, and assets.
  • Establish operating goals and objectives aligned with those set by Operations Management
  • Routinely monitor, appraise, and coach the performance of his or her direct reports.
  • Perform routine plant inspections to identify issues related to safety and environmental compliance, housekeeping, equipment conditions, and hazards to personnel to ensure that deficiencies are identified, and corrective actions are initiated.
  • Ensuring plant management and Fleet Operations stay informed of critical equipment conditions.
  • Serve as primary contact for coordinating daily operations with all departments.


Additional Information:

This position requires participation in a rotating on-call status.

Safety Sensitive

Georgia Power Company has classified this position as \"Safety Sensitive\" and as such is subject to relevant pre-employment screening(s) to determine fitness for duty. Any offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant successfully completing all required fitness assessments.

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.

Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.

Workplace Awards

  • 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
  • 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
    • Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
  • 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
  • 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
  • 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
    • No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
    • No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
    • No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
    • No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
  • 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
  • 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
  • 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
    • No. 15 overall, top utility
  • 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
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