Outage Project Lead

at  Synergy AU

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The Outage Project Lead is a newly created opportunity based at our Pinjar site. Reporting to the Manager Pinjar & Regional Gas Generation, the Outage Project Lead works as an effective member of the Pinjar and Regional team and demonstrates a commitment to drive safety, stakeholder focus and alignment with the culture of Synergy.
The Outage Project Lead will ensure the effective execution of contracted major maintenance outages, leading the coordination of outage activities and providing specialist technical and commercial advice to achieve the agreed outage objectives.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Develop, implement, and maintain a robust contract management framework and system for extracting maximum value from existing Gas Generation (GG) supplier relationships, collaborating with the Procurement and Commercial departments.
• Estimate and schedule scopes of work to be performed by contractors.
• Plan and execute outages in accordance with gas generation outage framework.
• Demonstrate visible safety leadership and build an enduring safety culture, maintaining a safe working environment and participating in observations, audits, and inspections.
• Support the development of the annual business plan including budgets for major outages aligned to the Gas Generation asset strategy and develop and deliver Major Maintenance Outage work scopes that are in accordance with the asset lifecycle plans for the Pinjar and Regional Gas Generation assets.