Nuclear Maintenance Supervisor (Mechanical/Electrical)

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Job Summary

This posting includes multiple openings for mechanical and electrical team supervisors:
• Mechanical Fix It Now Team
• Electrical Fix It Now Team
• Shift Maintenance teams, which combine electrical and mechanical personnel.

The Supervisor, Nuclear Maintenance provides leadership, supervision, and direction to nuclear maintenance personnel performing preventive, corrective, online, and outage maintenance activities. This role is responsible for safe, high-quality execution of maintenance work; effective planning, scheduling, and resource coordination; and development of a capable, well-trained team that can meet station, regulatory, procedural, and customer expectations. The supervisor partners closely with Operations, Engineering, Work Control, Planning, and other support organizations to remove barriers, resolve emergent issues, and maintain focus on safety, quality, schedule adherence, and equipment reliability.

Responsibilities

Work Execution and Oversight

• Supervise nuclear mechanical/electrical maintenance personnel performing preventive, corrective, online, and outage maintenance.
• Assign work to qualified personnel and ensure maintenance activities are performed safely, correctly, and in accordance with procedures.
• Monitor work progress, resolve execution barriers, and support schedule adherence, quality work completion, and equipment reliability.
• Coordinate with Operations, Engineering, Work Control, Planning, Technical Support, and other stakeholders to support work execution and emergent issue resolution.
• Review completed work for procedural compliance, QA requirements, post-maintenance testing, modification impacts, and return-to-service readiness.

Leadership, Team Development, and Accountability

• Set clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, accountability, and professional conduct.
• Provide routine feedback, coaching, and performance management to develop employee capability and address performance gaps.
• Support qualification, training, and on-the-job development to maintain a skilled and ready workforce.
• Promote teamwork, communication, and cross-functional collaboration to improve execution and achieve station goals.

Safety, Compliance, and Continuous Improvement

• Reinforce safe work practices, procedural compliance, and regulatory expectations in daily maintenance activities.
• Lead discussions on safety, risk, execution standards, and current station priorities.
• Maintain oversight of payroll and applicable work-hour controls.
• Identify improvement opportunities, strengthen work processes, and reinforce best practices that improve maintenance performance.

Basic/Required Qualifications

• High School/GED
• 4 Years minimum related work experience
• 1 year minimum nuclear experience

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading or supervising personnel in a nuclear generation, power generation, or similarly regulated industrial maintenance environment.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, prioritize, schedule, and execute maintenance work while balancing emergent issues and station priorities.
• Strong working knowledge of maintenance execution fundamentals, plant systems, equipment, and maintenance processes applicable to a generating station.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple complex tasks, remove execution barriers, and work effectively across Operations, Engineering, Work Control, Planning, Training, and support organizations.
• Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to provide direction, feedback, coaching, and clear status updates to personnel and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to handle conflict, motivate team members, build trust, and promote teamwork and accountability.
• Demonstrated commitment to personnel safety, procedural compliance, quality work execution, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated proficiency with computer applications used to support maintenance and station work processes.
  

Working Conditions

• Onsite Mobility Classification – Work will be performed at a company facility. On-site employees are also required to live within a reasonable daily commute to their assigned work location, not greater than 50 miles one way.
• Work is performed in an office and industrial nuclear generation environment and may require observation of work in plant areas operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Potential exposure to radiation, industrial heat and cold, confined spaces, heavy equipment, high-pressure systems, noise, dust, and humidity.
• May require climbing ladders and stairs, entering limited-access areas, walking, stooping, bending, squatting, lifting equipment, and use of PPE or respiratory protection as required.
• Required to wear personal protective equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, fall protection, etc.) as needed.
• Must be able to make sound decisions in a high-accountability environment and be available for on-call or emergency response support as required by station needs.

Specific Requirements

• In lieu of 1 year of nuclear experience, a selected candidate is subject to the oversight and written approval authority of a designated qualified individual until the selected candidate becomes fully qualified.
• Must be able to obtain Unescorted Authorized Access (UAA) at a nuclear power plant.
• Emergency Response Organization (ERO) responsibilities which could include callouts with a defined response time to the site and an on-call duty rotation requiring the employee to be Fit for Duty.
• Valid driver's license

Travel Requirements

5-15%

Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)

Yes

Represented/Union Position

No

Visa Sponsored Position

No. This is not a Visa Sponsored Position. This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.

Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.

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