What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager position at NextEra Energy Resources?
Requisition ID: 97494
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
The Central Maintenance Planning Analyst is responsible for improving outage planning effectiveness through analytics, process improvement, automation, and organizational readiness. This role serves as the Planning organization's lead for data analysis, business process optimization, AI and technology adoption, training documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Working closely with planners, outage managers, site personnel, and leadership, this position identifies risks, removes roadblocks, automates manual processes, and develops data-driven solutions that improve outage readiness, planning efficiency, and execution performance across the fleet.
Key Responsibilities
Required
Success In This Role Will Be Demonstrated Through
Employees in this job plan, monitor and manage internal projects from initiation through completion. This role provides direction on projects to the department or project team members.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Project Management
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com , providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
The Central Maintenance Planning Analyst is responsible for improving outage planning effectiveness through analytics, process improvement, automation, and organizational readiness. This role serves as the Planning organization's lead for data analysis, business process optimization, AI and technology adoption, training documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Working closely with planners, outage managers, site personnel, and leadership, this position identifies risks, removes roadblocks, automates manual processes, and develops data-driven solutions that improve outage readiness, planning efficiency, and execution performance across the fleet.
Key Responsibilities
- Analytics & Readiness
- Analyze historical outage performance and identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Develop dashboards, reports, and readiness metrics to support planning and leadership decision-making.
- Monitor outage health, milestone compliance, material readiness, and critical path risks.
- Provide predictive insights that improve planning accuracy, resource forecasts, budget development, and outage outcomes.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives that increase planning efficiency and effectiveness.
- Identify and eliminate process barriers, inefficiencies, and recurring planning roadblocks.
- Develop and implement automated solutions, reporting tools, and AI-enabled capabilities that reduce manual effort and improve data quality.
- Evaluate and deploy emerging technologies that enhance outage planning, readiness, and execution.
- Maintain and continuously improve planning processes, procedures, standards, and governance documentation.
- Ensure planning workflows remain accurate, effective, standardized, and aligned with organizational objectives.
- Create, update, and maintain training materials, job aids, process maps, and onboarding documentation.
- Support implementation of process changes, system enhancements, and new planning tools through effective documentation and training.
- Preserve organizational knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned through structured documentation and knowledge-sharing programs.
- Partner with Central Maintenance planners and stakeholders to resolve business challenges and improve performance.
- Translate complex data into actionable recommendations for leadership.
- Support special projects, organizational initiatives, and fleet-wide improvement efforts.
Required
- Bachelor's degree, Business, Analytics, Information Systems, or related field preferred.
- Experience in project controls, analytics, or related disciplines.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Power BI, AI, or similar analytics tools.
- Experience in power generation, utilities, maintenance, or outage planning.
- Experience with AI, automation, predictive analytics, and process improvement methodologies.
- Knowledge of SAP or similar enterprise systems.
- Lean Six Sigma, Project Management, or Analytics certifications.
Success In This Role Will Be Demonstrated Through
- Improved outage readiness and planning effectiveness.
- Increased automation and reduction of manual processes.
- Enhanced planning analytics and decision support capabilities.
- Greater consistency in processes, procedures, and training materials.
- Reduced schedule and cost risk through proactive identification and mitigation.
- Successful removal of organizational and process-related roadblocks.
- Continuous improvement in outage planning and fleet execution performance.
Employees in this job plan, monitor and manage internal projects from initiation through completion. This role provides direction on projects to the department or project team members.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Plans, coordinates and completes large-scale or several medium or small, complex or long term project(s) within budgetary and scheduling guidelines
- Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports
- Secures required resources and uses formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes
- Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis
- Identifies issues and challenges, measures and validates results, and implements solutions
- Provides information to internal and external clients on moderate to complex issues
- Creates and communicates presentation materials for report out and updates with various levels of internal and external stakeholders
- Conducts external research and stays abreast of new developments or innovative advancements pertaining to the project
- Provides coaching, leadership and direction to project team
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 4 years
- Master's Degree
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Project Management
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com , providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.