Plant Manager

**Plant manager**:
Wärtsilä Energy leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our partners to accelerate their decarbonisation journeys through our market-leading technologies and power system modelling expertise. These cover decarbonisation services, future-fuel enabled balancing power plants, hybrid solutions, energy storage and optimisation technology, including the GEMS Digital Energy Platform.

Did you know Wärtsilä has delivered 76 GW of power plant capacity and more 110 energy storage systems in 180 countries around the world?

In this fast changing world of energy, we are constantly on the lookout for future-oriented talent to join our team and to work towards enabling sustainable societies through innovation in technology and services - together. Want to join the ride?

**PLANT MANAGER**

We are looking for a **PLANT MANAGER **to join our Power Plant team in **Salta Capital, Argentina**

**What will you be doing**

As a **PLANT MANAGER**, you will be accountable to plan, lead, and manage operation and maintenance activities at the plant and assigned team to ensure customer satisfaction and to reach set contractual quality, financial, cost and time targets.

**As **a PLANT MANAGER,** you will focus on these responsibilities**:

- Lead and execute the Mobilisation Process of the O&M
- Plant performance indicators according to contract
- Coordinate with Management resources the development and training of O&M personnel
- Operations & Maintenance Management for assigned plant
- Responsible for all activities relating to the daily contract management at the power plant
- Inclusive of planning and implementation of plant operations & maintenance.
- Communicate effectively with the plant team relative to the condition of the plant equipment and performance and to provide suggestions for improvements
- Administration and training of skilled and motivated contract management personnel to assure good teamwork.
- Establish and implement standard Wärtsilä Services procedures and Contract Management process
- Prepare reports, plans, and budgets as instructed by the Contract Manager
- Identify and actively seek to improve operational & maintenance reliability and availability
- Plant performance according to agreement
- Operations & Maintenance management for assigned plant
- Maintain Agreement KPI's on a healthy result
- Execution of all daily activities according to agreement at the plant including planning and implementation of plant operations & maintenance.
- Development of competencies, teamwork, and way of working to ensure highly skilled and motivated personnel
- Effective communication with the plant team
- Securing staff safety
- Establish and implement standard operations procedures according to Wärtsilä Code of Conduct as well as global Contract management processes.
- Prepare reports, plans, and budgets as instructed by the Agreement Manager
- Identify and actively seek to improve operational & maintenance reliability and availability
- Manage local requirements such as housing, transportation, logistics, etc.

**To be successful in this role, we expect you to have**:

- Excellent command of English, both written and oral; command of Spanish is an advantage
- Bachelor/ University Degree in Engineering, Finance, or Business Administration. MBA or Master's Degree is a plus or 4 years of equivalent experience managing large operations.
- Know how to motivate, engage and inspire large teams
- Have a strong emotional intelligence
- Experience in the development of technical resources
- Excellent organizational skills
- Strong collaborator with people from different parts of the organization and with different cultures
- Sense of urgency and be a serviceable person
- Problem-solver mindset
- A systematic and organized approach to work

**Why you and us**

You will be a part of a global organization with local presence and work in an exciting and dynamic working environment with highly motivated and skilled co-workers. We offer interesting and challenging work tasks, as well as personal and professional development in a great team.

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At Wärtsilä we value, respect and embrace all our differences, and are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunities; everyone can be their true self and succeed based on their job-relevant merits and abilities.