Also called: Outage Coordinator, Outage Planning Manager
Plans and runs the few intense weeks when a power plant shuts down for major repairs, coordinating thousands of tasks and workers.
For a year you plan every job in a refueling or turbine outage: which pumps get rebuilt, which crews arrive when, and which parts must be on site. When the plant goes offline, you run 6 a.m. meetings with hundreds of contractors and fight to stay on schedule, because every extra day can cost a million dollars.
Estimated; nuclear outage managers earn the most.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in engineering or years of plant experience plus project management training.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Construction Management.
Growing about average (about 2% over 10 years). Industrial production managers overall.
Low risk for 10 years. AI schedulers optimize outage plans, but leading thousands of workers through a high-stakes shutdown stays human.
Classes: Business CTE class, Physics, Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-3051.
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