Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct all work activities in a professional, environmentally conscious, and safe manner.
- Assures operational efficiency, unit reliability and compliance with safety and environmental standards.
- Collecting and recording all necessary equipment and Instrumentation data and manually operating valves.
- Monitoring and operating plant equipment and responding to plant upset events and emergencies.
- Maintain, troubleshoot and repair of all plant equipment to include instrumentation, control systems, mechanical, and electrical equipment.
- Performs predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance.
- Coordinates the operational and maintenance activities performed on shift without oversight.
- Provides guidance to the O&M staff to operate and maintain the generating facility and all associated auxiliary and support equipment.
- Makes operating decisions based on plant procedures, environmental regulations, safety procedures, and using good judgment based on operating data.
- Primarily focused on plant operations and will require rotating 12-hour shift work.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in power plant operations and/or maintenance at a Combined Cycle Power Plant, as a qualified plant operator and/or maintenance technician
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Experience with GE turbines
- Experience in operations of a distributed control systems (DCS) preferred
- Willingness to perform work independently and a strong desire for personal ownership and responsibility for their work
- Demonstrates knowledge and proficiency in the Operations and Maintenance of a combustion turbine generating station, including balance of plant equipment.
- Ability to work shift work to include weekends, holidays, and be available for overtime as needed.
- Good computer skills including Microsoft Office and other computer-based productivity tools.
- Familiarity with Predictive and Preventative Maintenance programs
- Physical requirements include lifting 50lbs, standing for long periods, walking, bending, climbing ladders, kneeling etc.